[Remote] Security Engineering Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SkySlope is a software company serving the real estate industry. The Security Engineering Manager will build and lead the company’s security engineering team, design and execute its security program, provide hands-on technical leadership, hire and develop security engineers, partner across engineering functions, and apply AI to security review, triage, detection engineering, and governance.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for designing and executing SkySlope's security engineering program
• Own the security roadmap across its major domains: identity and credential standards (short-lived, machine-identity-based credentials and OIDC federation), least-privilege authorization, secrets management, managed-device standards, attack-surface governance, secure SDLC (commit signing and org-wide SAST, dependency and secret scanning), centralized logging and detection, vulnerability disclosure, and AI governance
• Sequence and prioritize the program pragmatically, targeting the highest risk reduction per unit of engineering effort first
• Own the security-debt register: maintain security work as a visible, prioritized engineering backlog rather than an audit artifact
• Own security tooling and vendor decisions, including evaluation, selection, and build-vs-buy judgment
• Deliver clear, honest executive reporting on program status, risk posture, and progress
• Responsible for hands-on technical leadership (player-coach)
• Lead and participate directly in architecture and design reviews for security-relevant work
• Contribute hands-on where it matters most: proofs of concept, detection logic, automation, and reviews
• Set and uphold the technical bar for security engineering work across the team
• Responsible for hiring and growing the security team
• Hire security engineers across levels and build an effective, collaborative team
• Coach and mentor each direct report through personal and performance management, including growing an early-career engineer into a strong contributor
• Build a team culture where security work is engineering work: shipped, measured, and iterated
• Responsible for partnering across the organization
• Work with DevOps, IT, and product engineering teams to embed security standards into how work already gets done — paved roads over gates
• Communicate early and often, building trust between security and the rest of engineering
• Ensure security guidance is concrete and actionable, not theoretical
• Responsible for making AI a security force multiplier
• Apply AI tooling to security review, triage, and detection engineering, and define the guardrails under which it operates
• Shape SkySlope's AI governance standards in partnership with engineering leadership

Skills

• Strong senior/staff-level individual contributor background in security engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering; you have personally built the kinds of systems you will now lead
• Demonstrated ability to design and drive a security program or comparable cross-cutting technical initiative from ambiguity to delivery
• Working depth in modern cloud security practice: cloud IAM, credential federation, secrets management, secure SDLC, and detection/logging (we run multi-cloud: primarily AWS, a growing GCP footprint, and a small amount of Azure; depth in one cloud and fluency across the rest is fine)
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills, with a track record of growing engineers, including those early in their careers
• Sound judgment on tooling and vendor decisions, including knowing when to build and when to buy
• Clear, direct communicator with executives and with engineers, in writing and in person
• Enthusiasm for using AI as a working tool in security engineering; we want practitioners who are energized by this, not skeptical of it
• Pragmatism: bias toward risk reduction that ships over frameworks that impress

Benefits

• Company pays a flat dollar amount toward medical insurance premiums.
• Three medical insurance plan options through United Healthcare; the United Healthcare HMO is available only to California residents, with eligibility beginning on the first day of the month following the date of hire.
• Company pays 75% of the monthly premium for the Principal Dental Base Plan; eligibility begins on the first day of the month following the date of hire.
• Vision insurance through Principal's VSP Choice network, with the company paying 100% of the monthly premium; eligibility begins on the first day of the month following the date of hire.
• Company-paid Basic Life and AD&D Insurance with a $25,000 guaranteed-issue amount; additional voluntary plans are available.
• Voluntary short- and long-term disability insurance plans.
• Voluntary accident insurance plans that pay a cash benefit for covered accident-related expenses.
• Voluntary hospital indemnity plans that pay a cash benefit for covered hospital-admission expenses.
• Voluntary critical illness insurance plans.
• Flexible Spending Account for eligible out-of-pocket health care and dependent care costs; eligibility begins on the first day of the month following the date of hire if enrolled by the 25th of the month.
• Health Savings Account for employees enrolled in the UHC HDHP/HSA medical plan; eligibility begins on the first day of the month following the date of hire if enrolled by the 25th of the month.
• SkySlope contributes $300 to an individual HSA and $600 to a family HSA.
• 401(k) plan with a company match of $0.50 for each $1.00 contributed, up to the first 6% of eligible earnings; eligibility begins on the first pay date after 90 days of employment.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a company match equal to 33.3333% of dollars contributed; eligibility begins on the first pay date after 90 days of employment.
• 120 hours (15 days) of PTO for new hires; PTO accrual begins after 90 days of employment.
• 16 paid holidays, including 11 observed holidays and 5 floating holidays; eligibility begins on the first day of employment.
• Bereavement leave: 5 paid days for the loss of an immediate family member and 1 paid day for the loss of a close non-family member.
• Discounts through Fidelity for wireless services, car rentals, hotels, and more.
• Pet insurance through Nationwide with 50% and 70% reimbursement plans and wellness options; SkySlope contributes $20 per month per pet for up to 2 pets.
• Paid Parental Leave for all full-time regular employees, providing up to 6 weeks of pay following the birth or placement of a new child, to be taken within the first 6 months.
• Dayforce Wallet access for all full-time regular employees, allowing access to earned pay on demand before the standard payday.
• Waldorf University discounts and perks: 10% off tuition for employees and their families, free textbooks, and scholarship opportunities.
• Discounted annual membership to Luminous Minds' Child Literacy Assistance Program: $85 for a one-year membership as a SkySlope employee.
• $1,000 post-tax employee referral bonus after the referred employee passes their 90-day mark.
• Annual Employee Appreciation Day and additional internal company events.

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