Engineering Manager (Security)
1 hour agoLeadSalary: 300K - 405KSan Francisco; Belgrade; London; New York City; RemoteHybridFull TimeEngineering ManagementJobs by Perplexity
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Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that provides real-time, cited answers and research capabilities.
San Francisco, United States
Funding history
About Perplexity
Private AI company founded in 2022. Its products combine conversational search and research with cited web sources; it also offers developer-facing Search, Agent, Router, and Embeddings APIs.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead, hire and grow the Security Engineering team, including the engineers building cybersecurity products for customers. You'll set technical direction and roadmap, own incident response operations, drive an AI-first security program with automation, partner with engineering and infrastructure leaders, and stay hands-on reviewing designs and code and running investigations when needed.
Requirements
- 8+ years of engineering experience in security, with at least 3 years managing security or infrastructure engineering teams
- Deep hands-on background in at least two of: detection and response, cloud security (AWS preferred), application or product security, offensive security, or identity and access management
- Experience leading incident response for serious security incidents
- Strong management practice including feedback, 1:1s, career development and hiring
- Comfortable with Kubernetes, cloud-native services and CI/CD
- Ability to make tradeoffs under pressure and explain risk clearly
- Experience shipping software products to external customers, ideally security products
- Experience building security programs at a fast-growing company
- Bonus: experience securing AI/ML systems, LLM applications or agents
- Bonus: experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP compliance programs
Responsibilities
- Lead, hire and grow a team of security engineers across detection and response, cloud, application, offensive, and identity and corporate security
- Lead engineers building cybersecurity products and own delivery to design partners and enterprise customers
- Keep the internal security program and the product tightly linked
- Set the roadmap for Security Engineering, balancing incident load, risk reduction and long-term platform investments
- Own security incident response operations including on-call health, escalation, coordination and postmortems
- Drive an AI-first security program automating investigation, response and remediation with agents
- Partner with engineering and infrastructure leaders on threat models, design reviews, least-privilege access and secure-by-default libraries
- Represent Security Engineering in enterprise customer security reviews, researcher and bug bounty engagements, and audits
- Build the team's operating rhythm, metrics and written standards
- Stay hands-on reviewing designs and code and running investigations
Benefits
- Equity
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement plan
- Fitness account
- Commuter account
- Dependent care account
- Region-tailored benefits for employees outside the U.S.
