Sysdig
Director of Security Engineering
Flexible - USA · Director · Full-time
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KubernetesTerraformCI/CDCybersecurityDetection EngineeringComplianceProduct ManagementProduct Strategy
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About the role
- Creators of technology trusted by over 60% of the Fortune 500, Sysdig gives teams the real-time clarity to move fast and defend what matters most.
- This role is Sysdig's customer zero, and we mean that operationally rather than rhetorically.
Responsibilities
- You'll own security engineering across four pillars - product security, production security, offensive security, and assurance engineering - and you'll build two programs from nothing: agentic continuous pentesting integrated with specialized human testing, and a security champions program covering both classical and AI security.
- You'll run our security program on our own technology, starting with the headless expression of Sysdig Secure and the products we're building to protect AI workloads.
- The Office of the CISO operates transparently, and we want our security team publishing and speaking, so the work you do here becomes work the industry can use - with a real production environment to cite and a product you helped design as the evidence.
- Own security engineering end-to-end. Set the roadmap, standards, and budget for the function. Act as final decision-maker on tooling and practice.
- Build and grow the team. Hire senior and staff security engineers, set their technical direction, and stay close enough to the code to be credible with the engineers you're asking to change how they work.
- Own product and platform security. Threat model the cloud defense platform and our AI workload protection products. Build secure-by-default primitives engineers build on rather than around. Drive vulnerability management measured by closure, not ticket volume.
- Harden production as code. Secrets and workload identity, Kubernetes and multi-cloud hardening delivered through Terraform and CI/CD rather than documentation. Run detection and response in our own environment, on our own telemetry.
- We maintain ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and SOC 2 Type II, and we're moving entirely off point-in-time assessments.
- Build continuous assurance: controls that report their own state, evidence generated as a pipeline output, validation running continuously against production.
- Build the security champions program across both classical security, and AI security, As a means of scaling and increasing velocity of security across the engineering organization.
Requirements
- Recognized as a Best Place to Work and one of Deloitte's fastest-growing companies for the past 5 years, we're here to raise the standard for what cloud security and workplace culture should be.
- When you join Sysdig, you can expect
Compensation
- Own attack enumeration, detection coverage, and validation as measured disciplines rather than as an annual engagement ending in a PDF.
- The U.S. annual salary range for this full-time position is between 186,000 and 256,000 USD/year.
Benefits
- You define where agents are trusted, where they aren't, and how findings feed detection coverage.
- Actual offers may be higher or lower than this range based on a variety of factors, including your work location, job-related experience and education.
Company info
- At Sysdig, we believe cloud security isn't a compromise - it's a promise.
- From the start, our mission has been clear: to help organizations secure innovation in the cloud, the right way.
- Engage major customers on matters of significance, and publish and speak on the work - encouraged, resourced, and supported.
- Shape the product roadmap as customer zero. Use new capabilities in production before customers do, then work directly with product on what to build, shape, or stop.
- Represent security externally. Engage major customers on matters of significance, and publish and speak on the work - encouraged, resourced, and supported.
- Your background and passion will set you apart, especially if your career path is different.
This listing is sourced directly from Sysdig's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.