Director, Security Defense Platforms

What you'll do

• Lead and mentor a globally distributed engineering organization and set the long-term architecture roadmap for detection and response infrastructure.
• Build automated threat-containment capabilities and integrate AI models and agentic reasoning into security operations workflows.
• Improve platform reliability, resilience, detection speed, and resource efficiency while delivering security risk-reduction commitments.

What they ask for

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cyber security, or equivalent practical experience.
• 15 years of software engineering and technical leadership experience, including 6 years managing managers and leading multi-site engineering organizations.
• Experience partnering with security operations, threat intelligence, or incident response teams to build developer and detection platforms.
• Experience using modern AI/ML applications in cyber security, including automated reasoning, LLM-based agent evaluation, anomaly detection, and synthetic threat injection/watermarking.

Nice to have

• 20 years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems, or enterprise platform infrastructure, with experience in cyber security or threat defense domains.
• Experience architecting SOAR, SIEM, EDR data fabrics, or real-time event correlation engines.

Pay

$307000 - $427000 (USD) base salary

Tools

AI/ML, LLM, SOAR, SIEM, EDR

AI focus

Integrates AI models and agentic reasoning into operational workflows, including alert triage, incident summaries, investigations, and automated containment; requires experience with automated reasoning, LLM-based agent evaluation, anomaly detection, and synthetic threat injection/watermarking.