Manager, Security Engineering

About the role

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.

The Company operates Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world, and Specs Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human, in addition to Bitmoji, Saturn, and other digital services.

Snapchat is an app that empowers people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. It's the easiest and fastest way to communicate the full range of human emotions with your friends without pressure to be popular, pretty, or perfect.

Snap’s camera supports real friendships through visual communication, self expression and storytelling. Moving forward, our camera will play a transformative role in how people experience the world around them, combining what they see in the real world, with all that’s available to them in the digital world.

​We’re looking for a Security Engineering Manager to lead our Detection & Response team here at Snap!

What you’ll do:

- Identify opportunities and assume direct ownership of multi-year, high-impact initiatives which scale our security monitoring efforts in a cost effective manner

- Ensure that security monitoring infrastructure, investigation tooling, and automation systems we build consistently demonstrate high technical quality and operational excellence

- Make judicious prioritization decisions that balance short term goals vs. long term security outcomes, team productivity, operational posture, and system health

- Directly participate in D&R operations, investigate events generated by the alerting pipeline and triage potential incidents

- Work closely with multiple Snap Inc. teams during security incidents and drive response efforts

- Align the team’s direction with the strategic goals of the organization and participate in quarterly/annual planning exercises

- Facilitate effective collaboration across different stakeholders, dependencies and cross-organizational partners

- Invest in your team members’ career growth, use effective performance management tools, and build mechanisms to delegate execution and ensure excellence

- Recruit high caliber engineers to your team and build an engaging, collaborative, and productive team which positively influences the culture of the broader organization

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

- Proven experience in one or more of the following detection and response areas: digital forensics, malware analysis, incident management, host/network intrusion detection, threat intelligence

- Development skills in Python, Go, and/or Java

- Advanced knowledge of operating system internals, and a core competency in two or more of the following: macOS, Windows, Linux, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform