Senior Security Manager - Lead Incident Response & Secure SaaS

Justremote; United States; Remote; USD 204,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Mental health benefits

Job summary

LaunchDarkly seeks a seasoned security-focused engineering manager to own the security program and drive team ownership across the engineering organization. You will guide teams through security health, own incident management, and coordinate with executives on posture and risk reporting.

You will route findings, reduce noise, and ensure strict governance while mentoring senior engineers and collaborating with product and security stakeholders to align priorities and resourcing.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a formal security or engineering management role, including managing senior engineers.
• Experience moving a security function from gatekeeper to team ownership with measurable results.
• Experience as incident manager for security incidents at a SaaS company, including external communication.
• Experience guiding teams through technical tradeoffs and developing senior engineers' careers.
• Ability to track and drive security metrics and interpret their limits.

Responsibilities

• Own the wiring and routing of security findings and requests, reducing noise and the human-decision rate across intake, triage, and review.
• Serve as incident manager of record for security incidents and act as delegated approver for vendor and access decisions.
• Publish security posture updates monthly to engineering and quarterly to executives, and maintain a risk register.
• Guide product engineering teams toward security health ownership, with findings routed to teams via severity mapping.

Skills

Security leadership

Incident management

AWS security

Cross-functional collaboration

Metrics & governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

AWS

Job description

LaunchDarkly seeks a seasoned security-focused engineering manager to own the security program and drive team ownership across the engineering organization. You will guide teams through security health, own incident management, and coordinate with executives on posture and risk reporting.

You will route findings, reduce noise, and ensure strict governance while mentoring senior engineers and collaborating with product and security stakeholders to align priorities and resourcing.