LaunchDarkly
Senior Manager, Security
$204K–$331K
Remote - US West · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in a formal security or engineering management role, including managing senior engineers.
About the job
Leads LaunchDarkly’s Product Security team and builds a risk-led security operating model that enables engineering teams to own security health, with Security guiding, validating, and using automation and AI to handle findings.
What you'll do
- Manage the team’s work portfolio and simplify how security work is owned, prioritized, and automated.
- Guide engineering teams to manage their own security health; oversee finding intake and routing, incident response, approvals, and coverage of the Director’s operational duties.
- Publish security posture and service-level metrics, and maintain a risk register to drive priorities.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in formal security or engineering management, including managing senior engineers.
- Experience shifting a security function from gatekeeper to team ownership with measurable results.
- Experience managing SaaS security incidents end to end, including external communication.
- Familiarity with AWS security at scale and external audits (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP) as a participant or control owner.
Pay
$240,600 - 330,700 USD total pay (includes 15% bonus target); $216,500 - 297,600 USD total pay (includes 15% bonus target); $204,500 - 281,100 USD total pay (includes 15% bonus target)
Tools
AWS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP
AI focus
Use automation and AI as the first responder for security findings, reducing noise and the need for human decisions; Security serves as the escalation path.
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