Manager of Security Engineering (Production Security)
Snap
Santa Monica, United States Posted October 14, 2026
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Salary Range
$213,000 - $377,000
Job Description
Join Snap Inc. as the Manager of Security Engineering (Production Security). In this role, you will lead the Production Security team, responsible for securing the infrastructure that powers Snapchat. You will set technical direction, translate production risk into a prioritized roadmap, and ensure high technical quality and operational excellence. You will also partner closely with various teams to embed security controls and influence the adoption of AI tooling and agentic workloads. Additionally, you will recruit and develop high-caliber engineers and invest in their career growth.
- Diriger l'équipe de sécurité de la production, en étant responsable de la sécurité de l'infrastructure qui fait fonctionner Snapchat.
- Établir et mettre en œuvre une stratégie technique pluriannuelle pour sécuriser l'infrastructure de production de Snap, en traduisant les risques de production en une feuille de route priorisée.
- Superviser la construction et l'exploitation des plateformes de sécurité, en veillant à ce qu'elles démontrent constamment une haute qualité technique, une fiabilité et une excellence opérationnelle.
- Development skills in Go, Python, and/or Java, enough to review designs, assess technical quality, and stay credible with your engineers
- Ability to apply defense in depth and zero-trust principles to a large, heterogeneous production environment, and to sequence controls so that adoption succeeds at scale
- Hands-on experience deploying and securing services in multi-cloud environments, particularly AWS and Google Cloud Platform
- Working knowledge of authentication and authorization protocols and frameworks, including OpenID Connect, OAuth, mTLS, and identity federation
- Proven experience in one or more production and infrastructure security areas: cloud security architecture, network perimeter and zero-trust design, workload identity and secrets management, container and Kubernetes security, or CI/CD and software supply chain security
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to influence senior engineering leaders without direct authority
- Deep understanding of one or more infrastructure domains: Kubernetes, containers, service mesh technologies such as Istio or Envoy, networking, or Linux internals
- 1+ year(s) of experience as an Engineering Manager
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent years of experience in a related technical field
- 8+ years of post-bachelor's industry experience; or a Master's degree in a technical field + 7+ years of post-grad security experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 4+ years of post-grad security experience
- Experience leading teams that both build and operate platform services at scale, including accountability for SLAs, on-call, and migration of large internal customer bases
- Track record driving company-wide adoption of a security control or platform, including the partner management and change management required to get there
- Familiarity with cloud security posture management platforms and native AWS and GCP security services
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