# Senior Security Engineering Manager, Enterprise Security

**Company:** [Upstart](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/upstart)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $191k – $264k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Kubernetes, Ci/Cd Security, Endpoint Security, Identity And Access Management, Vulnerability Management, SIEM, Soar, Logging Pipelines, Detection Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-05-20

> Lead and mature security engineering programs across enterprise security, security operations, and detection engineering. Manage a team of security professionals while building proactive controls, improving detection/response, and driving cross-functional risk reduction initiatives.

## Job Description

## How you’ll make an impact

- Lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution for security engineering programs across enterprise security, security operations, and detection security engineering.
- Manage, coach, and develop a team of security professionals, ensuring the team has clear priorities, measurable goals, effective operating rhythms, and opportunities for career growth.
- Build and mature proactive and preventative security controls across corporate systems, cloud environments, identity platforms, endpoints, SaaS applications, and security operations workflows.
- Improve Upstart’s ability to detect, investigate, and respond to threats by strengthening detection coverage, alert quality, logging strategy, response playbooks, automation, and operational processes.
- Drive cross-functional security initiatives across Engineering, IT, Compliance, Legal, Risk, and business teams, aligning security priorities with company objectives, risk tolerance, and operational needs.
- Establish and report on meaningful security engineering and operations metrics, including program health, control effectiveness, detection and response performance, remediation progress, and risk reduction outcomes.
- Evaluate and improve security tooling, processes, and controls to reduce systemic risk, increase operational efficiency, and ensure the team is focused on the highest-value security work.
- Raise the maturity of Upstart’s security programs by identifying recurring issues, addressing root causes, and developing durable solutions.

## What we’re looking for

### Minimum requirements
- 8+ years of experience in information security, security engineering, enterprise security, security operations, detection and response, incident response, vulnerability management, cloud security, or related security domains.
- 3+ years of experience managing security professionals or leading security engineering programs across multiple teams or stakeholder groups.
- Experience owning roadmaps, priorities, metrics, and execution for security programs with cross-functional dependencies.
- Experience building or operating security capabilities in cloud-based and enterprise environments, including working knowledge of common security tooling, logging, monitoring, detection, identity, endpoint, and response practices.
- Experience leading security incidents or operational security programs, including investigation coordination, stakeholder communications, remediation tracking, and post-incident improvement.
- Experience partnering with Engineering, IT, Compliance, Legal, Risk, or business teams to deliver measurable security outcomes.

### Preferred qualifications
- Experience leading security programs across multiple domains such as enterprise security, security operations, detection engineering, cloud security, identity and access management, endpoint security, vulnerability management, or incident response.
- Demonstrated experience building or improving security programs that emphasize proactive and preventative controls, automation, and early risk reduction over reactive incident response.
- Knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD security, endpoint security, identity and access management, vulnerability management, SIEM/SOAR, logging pipelines, and modern detection engineering practices.
- Ability to communicate security risk, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical, non-technical, and senior leadership audiences.
- Experience improving detection and response maturity through logging strategy, detection coverage, alert tuning, automation, playbooks, tabletop exercises, postmortems, and measurable process improvements.
- Experience improving enterprise security programs across SaaS applications, identity providers, endpoint controls, corporate infrastructure, and employee security workflows.
- Experience operating in a regulated environment, financial technology company, or organization with high security, privacy, or compliance requirements.
- Security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC, AWS Security Specialty, or similar credentials.

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