Principal Security Engineer, Privy
Lead and coach a team of Forward Deployed Engineers, owning outcomes, raising execution quality, and translating customer feedback into product impact.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own team outcomes and business impact for Forward Deployed Engineering
- Coach and develop engineers across technical depth, customer empathy, and ownership
- Hold the team accountable to excellence in quality, throughput, and performance
- Ensure the team is focused on the right problems and highest-leverage opportunities
- Partner closely with Product, Solutions Engineering, and GTM
- Stay close to the work—review PRs, help scope technical work, review design docs, and jump in on complex problems
- Build a strong team culture grounded in trust, rigor, and urgency
- Strengthen the feedback loop between customer signal and product roadmap
Requirements
- Strong ownership and a track record of driving outstanding business impact
- Excellent people management skills and experience growing high-performing engineers
- Strong technical judgment and the ability to evaluate architecture and tradeoffs
- A customer-first mindset and comfort translating ambiguous needs into clear technical direction
- High emotional maturity and strong communication
- Experience managing in a fast-moving, high-expectation environment
Skills
Engineering Management, People Management, Technical Leadership, Architecture Review, Pr Review, Design Documentation, Customer Empathy, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Team Building, Performance Coaching
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