Sr. Manager, Security Engineering

About the role

As a Security Engineering Manager for Product and Production Infrastructure, you will lead and grow a team of security engineers responsible for protecting cloud-native environments, CI/CD pipelines, and core production infrastructure. You will act as a technical leader and people manager, providing strategic direction and mentorship while building partnerships with software development and DevOps teams to embed secure-by-design principles.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Talent Development: Recruit, retain, develop, and coach a high-performing, globally distributed team of Security Engineers; establish performance goals, conduct 1:1s, and support career progression.
• Technical Strategy & Architecture: Lead threat modeling and technical security reviews across product architectures and multi-cloud infrastructure to identify attack surfaces and design scalable mitigation strategies.
• Security Automation & "Shift-Left": Drive the creation of automation, policy-as-code, and developer-friendly security tooling to integrate continuous, end-to-end security checks into CI/CD workflows.
• Infrastructure & Container Hardening: Define, implement, and govern secure baselines for multi-cloud resources and managed Kubernetes infrastructure (EKS, GKE, AKS).
• Vulnerability & Supply Chain Management: Oversee end-to-end vulnerability management and remediation programs, establishing preventative controls across software supply chains from development to production.
• Detection & Incident Response: Partner with detection and response functions to scale alert triage, investigation capabilities, and automated incident remediation.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Build deep functional relationships with Engineering and DevOps leadership to balance security requirements with product delivery velocity.

Required skills

• Product Security
• Cloud Security
• Kubernetes
• IAM
• IaC
• Python
• Go
• Application Security
• Threat Modeling

Nice to have

• SaaS
• CNAPP
• CSPM
• CIEM
• CDR

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 2+ years of experience leading, managing, or mentoring security engineering, DevOps, or technical cloud infrastructure teams

About the Company

Wiz is a fast-growing startup that enables teams to secure cloud and AI applications by connecting code, cloud, and runtime into a single shared context. Powered by Google, the company provides an AI-powered platform that helps customers detect, prevent, and respond to threats across all environments.