Software Engineering Manager, Network Security

Responsibilities

• Own the network security roadmap, threat-modeling the management plane, Kubernetes, and cloud interconnects.
• Design and implement default-deny ingress and egress, segmentation between research, training, and production, private connectivity, and mTLS/service identity across environments.
• Ship secure-by-default primitives so new clusters, VPCs, and data center links inherit appropriate security boundaries.
• Partner with networking, cluster, and data center teams during design to incorporate secure topology, routing, and firewall decisions.
• Build visibility into traffic and boundary drift, including detection of exfiltration paths and safe automated remediation.
• Own network security evidence for security goals and compliance, demonstrating that required invariants hold.
• Hire, grow, and retain senior security software engineers; support career development and establish scalable team practices.

Requirements

• 8+ years of frontline management experience.
• Experience managing infrastructure or security engineering teams, including hiring, developing, and managing senior and staff engineers.
• Experience growing engineers into staff or lead roles and making performance-management decisions when coaching is unsuccessful.
• Experience maintaining team delivery through reorganizations, charter changes, or leadership turnover.
• Experience owning a security or infrastructure domain end to end, including multi-year strategy and year-long cross-organizational initiatives.
• Experience scaling a team and its systems through hypergrowth.
• Hands-on network security engineering in cloud and/or on-premises environments, including VPC design, interconnects, private service connectivity, cloud firewall policy, egress control, physical segmentation, and out-of-band or management-plane security.
• Experience with threat modeling and risk assessment for networked systems.
• Experience securing Kubernetes networking at scale or working in high-assurance environments where controls must be evidenced.
• Clear and persuasive written and verbal communication.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a relevant field.

Nice-to-haves

• Built or rebuilt a hiring loop while maintaining hiring standards during rapid headcount growth.
• Exposure to large-scale distributed training and its networking requirements.
• Solved end-to-end networking problems with internal users, cloud account teams, and hardware or colocation vendors.
• Took infrastructure from initial implementation through production maturity and reliability.
• Familiarity with AI security and safety concepts.
• Low-ego, empathetic, pragmatic, and steady leadership style.

Compensation and benefits

• Annual salary: $405,000–$485,000 USD.
• Hybrid policy: staff are currently expected to work from an office at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more.
• Visa sponsorship may be available depending on the role and candidate.