We are looking for a committed and driven manager who is passionate about solving complex security problems in innovative and scalable ways. As a Manager of Security Engineering, you will own security engineering across Contentful’s corporate systems, including the tooling and platforms that support the internal security team.
Requirements
- 8+ years of progressive engineering and security experience.
- 3+ years managing people and security engineering teams.
- Expertise with AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Strong hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating security controls at scale.
- Demonstrated experience securing endpoint, SaaS, and cloud environments.
- Experience working within identity and access management and data security programs.
- Software development experience in modern programming language (Python, Go, etc)
- Hands-on experience using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code.
- Experience applying modern practices to improve efficiency and scalability or security programs.
- Passion for solving complex security problems in innovative and scalable ways.
- Experience using metrics to measure impact, optimize execution, and guide investment decisions.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical topics to non technical audiences.
- Ability to support occasional off-hours incident response efforts.
- Familiarity with attacker techniques in cloud-native and traditional environments.
- Hands-on experience owning security technologies (e.g., EDR, AntiVirus, etc.)
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence outcomes without direct authority.
- Experience owning end to end security programs, proactively driving incremental improvement.
- Strong systems thinking, with the ability to design security solutions that scale through efficiency.
Benefits
- Stock Options
- Comprehensive healthcare package covering 100% of monthly health premiums for employees and 85% of costs for your dependents.
- Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
- Generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, compassion days for loss, education days, and volunteer days
- Company paid parental leave
- Personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
- Full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
- Annual wellbeing stipend
- Monthly communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
- New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees.