Director of Security Engineering

The role

You will lead security engineering across product, production, offensive and assurance security at Sysdig. You will build an agentic continuous pentesting program and a security champions program, and act as customer zero by running the security program on Sysdig's own technology.

What you will do

• Own security engineering end-to-end, including roadmap, standards, budget and tooling decisions
• Build and grow the team by hiring senior and staff security engineers and setting their technical direction
• Own product and platform security, including threat modeling and secure-by-default primitives
• Harden production as code through Terraform and CI/CD, including secrets, workload identity and Kubernetes
• Build agentic continuous pentesting integrated with specialized human pentesting
• Rebuild compliance as continuous assurance with controls that report their own state
• Define safe boundaries for AI-assisted development and coding agents
• Use agents to scale triage, control validation, evidence generation and detection authoring
• Build a security champions program covering classical and AI security
• Represent security externally, engaging major customers and publishing or speaking on the work

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in security or software engineering
• 4+ years leading and developing engineers with ownership of roadmap, outcomes and budget
• Genuine depth in at least two of four pillars: product, production, offensive and assurance security, with working knowledge of all four
• Experience shipping security as code with Terraform or OpenTofu and controls enforced in pipelines
• Experience running detection and response as the person on the escalation path
• Working with agentic tooling
• Ability to make the secure path the easiest path through partnership
• Credibility with customer CISOs and engineers

Nice to have

• Built a security function that did not exist before
• Experience with capable adversaries such as APT actors
• Built or run agent-driven offensive tooling or automated vulnerability discovery at scale
• Worked on AI governance frameworks such as ISO 42001, the EU AI Act or NIST AI RMF
• Conference speaking, published research or open-source contribution

Benefits

• Extra days off
• 401(k) with a 3% company match
• Maternity and parental leave
• Mental health support through Modern Health
• Full health benefits package for you and your family

Before you apply

• Pay range is for the U.S. and actual offers may be higher or lower based on location, experience and education

About the company

Sysdig helps organizations secure innovation in the cloud and created Falco, the open standard for cloud threat detection. Its technology is trusted by over 60% of the Fortune 500.