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Software Security Engineering Manager, Secure Frameworks

San Francisco, CA Engineering Senior USD405k–485k Posted 2d ago

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Role description

What the team is looking for.

Job Overview

We're seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead our Secure Frameworks Research team, building high-leverage security frameworks and libraries for secure model development.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design frameworks and libraries for secure handling of sensitive data, including model weights, customer data, and training datasets.
  • Own and ensure outstanding user experience, proactive monitoring, and responsive support for what you build.
  • Enable other teams to build security solutions by providing design pattern guidance and expanding security ownership.
  • Partner with product, research, and infrastructure teams to ensure smooth integration with lower-layer security controls.
  • Make strategic decisions on which frameworks to build based on security risk and translate into prioritized roadmaps.
  • Define success metrics around framework adoption and impact.
  • Manage and grow a team of engineers to deliver high-impact projects balancing security rigor with development velocity.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 3+ years managing security engineering teams with a proven track record of team productivity.
  • 5+ years hands-on security and software engineering experience.
  • Deep expertise in securing complex architectures, threat modeling, and risk assessment.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, balancing security requirements with developer experience and velocity.
  • Clear and persuasive communicator in both writing and verbal settings.
  • Passionate about building diverse, high-performing teams and growing engineers.
  • Experience working with technical internal customers.
  • Familiarity with AI safety concepts and frameworks.

Logistics

  • Annual Salary: $405,000-$485,000 USD
  • Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
  • Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.
  • Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Lovely office space
Skills mentioned
  • security engineering
  • software engineering
  • threat modeling
  • risk assessment
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • AI safety
  • familiarity with AI safety concepts and frameworks
  • experience working with technical internal customers