Senior Director, Security Engineering

Senior Director, Security Engineering - Slack

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Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

* 15+ years of broad cybersecurity experience spanning multiple security domains (infrastructure security, application security, incident response, identity, threat intelligence), with at least 8+ years in senior leadership roles managing managers and coaching senior leaders * Proven track record building and scaling enterprise security programs at consumer or enterprise SaaS scale — not just running existing programs, but transforming them in response to fundamental shifts in the threat landscape * Deep expertise in crisis management and incident response, with demonstrated experience leading remediation of major incidents across both product and enterprise environments * Experience leading through organizational change — uniting globally distributed, cross-functional teams into a cohesive, high-performing security culture * Technical depth combined with strategic versatility — comfortable shifting between board-level security strategy and hands-on architecture reviews * Excellent cross-functional leadership skills, with experience driving alignment across Product, Engineering, Legal, and Compliance without direct authority over all parties * A related technical degree required

* Experience securing AI/ML systems, LLM-powered features, or agentic platforms — including threat modeling for prompt injection, tool-use authorization, agent data access, and AI supply chain risks * Track record deploying AI/ML for defensive security — automated threat detection, LLM-assisted threat hunting, anomaly detection at scale, or autonomous incident response * Experience with high-assurance compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP High and DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5), ideally in a product that had to maintain velocity while meeting these bars * Deep familiarity with threat intelligence methodologies and active threat actor TTPs in the tech industry, with experience leading investigations to evict sophisticated threat actors from complex distributed environments * Experience securing platform ecosystems where third-party developers, integrations, or agents extend the attack surface beyond your direct control * Recognized thought leader in the security community — conference speaker, published researcher, or contributor to security standards and frameworks