Lead Security Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own the security roadmap — craft and execute a strategic security engineering plan that aligns with CodeRabbit’s fast-paced engineering cadence.
• Boost resilience — champion defense-in-depth tactics: threat modeling, secure design reviews, hardening, CI/CD integration.
• Be Incident Commander — spearhead security incident response and recovery: triage, resolve, root cause, and turn those learnings into stronger systems.
• Tools & automation — build or integrate security tooling (SAST, DAST, SIEM, EDR, monitoring) into the developer workflow without slowing delivery.
• Embed security fluently — partner with engineering and product teams to bring secure practices early into planning and daily workflows.
• Talent & culture — help to hire, coach, and mentor a scrappy, resilient security engineering team; elevate security awareness across the company.
• Compliance & policy — establish security standards, frameworks, or processes that evolve as we scale—but remain lean and developer-friendly.

Qualifications

• Battle-tested experience: 8+ years in security engineering, incident response, or correlated fields—bonus if you've led through a major production breach or targeted attack.
• Technical depth: Extensive experience with security across software and infrastructure—threat modeling, pen testing, secure CI/CD pipelines, cloud security, incident response.
• Strategic mindset: Ability to translate risk into actionables, communicate trade-offs with engineering/product leadership.
• Praxis over theory: You’ve taken production systems down (intentionally or unintentionally) and built them back stronger.
• Security in chaos: Experience in pressure situations—with clarity, direction, and calm.
• Developer-centric approach: You can speak fluent dev-tools, empathize with fast-moving teams, and secure them without slowing them down.

Bonus Points

• You’ve implemented DevSecOps tooling and orchestrated shift-left security in developer pipelines.
• You’ve recovered from (or prevented) a critical security event, and turned that into an engineering culture improvement.
• Experience in a dev-tools, SDK, or platform-heavy company.
• Hacker mindset + operational discipline - pentests, disaster recovery, threat hunting, tooling, cloud environments.
• Certifications like CISSP, CISM, CEH, or relevant cloud security certs.