# Senior Engineering Manager, Security & IT

**Company:** [Fingerprint](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fingerprint)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Application Security, Owasp, Vulnerability Management, Snyk, Penetration Testing, Zero Trust, SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, Okta, IAM, SCIM, SAML, Cloudflare
**Posted:** 2026-08-10

> Leads a team spanning application security, IT operations, and compliance/GRC, setting strategy, managing risk, and representing security posture to engineering leadership and enterprise customers. Requires broad security and IT expertise, 7+ years of experience, and at least 3 years managing teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Security Strategy & Application Security
- Define and own the application security roadmap, including vulnerability management, penetration testing, security reviews for new features and architectural changes.
- Build security-by-default practices into engineering workflows.
- Own the vendor security assessment process.
- Define zero-trust security principles and ensure they are embedded across the cloud platform and engineering organization.

### Compliance & GRC
- Own the annual SOC 2 Type 2 audit cycle, including evidence collection, auditor management, and control maturation.
- Drive compliance expansion, evaluating frameworks such as ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, and customer-specific requirements.
- Manage and develop the Compliance Lead.
- Lead security questionnaires, customer due diligence calls, and contractual security requirements during enterprise sales cycles.
- Own and maintain the policy framework and ensure policies are embedded in team workflows.

### IT Operations
- Manage the Lead IT Engineer and provide strategic direction for IT operations.
- Own IT strategy, including tooling, access management, Okta, SCIM/SAML provisioning, endpoint management, and identity governance.
- Scale IT operations with engineering headcount growth through proactive capacity planning.
- Define and enforce IT security policies covering device management, access reviews, and offboarding.

### Cross-functional Leadership & Communication
- Communicate security posture, compliance status, and IT health to the VP of Engineering with recommendations.
- Partner with the Cloud Platform Senior Manager on network security, IAM standards, security logging, and alerting.
- Embed security practices across product engineering teams.
- Represent the company's security and compliance posture to enterprise customers, prospects, and auditors.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in security, IT, or GRC.
- At least 3 years of team management experience.
- Fluency across application security, IT operations, and compliance/GRC.
- Application security expertise, including OWASP, vulnerability management programs, and engineering security review processes.
- IT operations leadership experience, including identity and access management, endpoint management, and remote workforce IT at scale.
- Strong strategic communication skills, with the ability to translate security and compliance complexity into business language.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience owning a SOC 2 audit cycle.
- Experience with ISO 27001, GDPR, or HIPAA.
- Familiarity with Snyk, Wiz, Cloudflare, and Okta.
- Experience answering enterprise security questionnaires and participating in customer due diligence.
- Experience in a high-growth SaaS company.

## Benefits
- 100% remote work in a globally distributed organization.

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