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Engineering Manager, Cybersecurity

The New York Times· IS and Cyber Security
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New York, NY$160k - $185kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager leading a Security Engineering team responsible for building and operating core security platforms and services at The New York Times, focusing on vulnerability management, secrets management, secure CI/CD guardrails, and logging/detection infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a Security Engineering team responsible for building and operating core security platforms, including centralized vulnerability management, secrets management, secure CI/CD guardrails, and logging and detection infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with Cybersecurity leadership and technical stakeholders to define vision, direction, and strategy for Security Engineering.
  • Own team execution from roadmap through implementation, rollout, and ongoing operations for security services used by engineers across The New York Times.
  • Create an environment that prioritizes context over control, empowering engineering teams with information, patterns, and tooling to ship secure products and services.
  • Partner with Developer Platforms, Enterprise Technology, and Product Engineering to design secure-by-default platforms and guardrails balancing security, usability, and performance.
  • Establish and improve processes for vulnerability intake, triage, remediation workflows, and reporting to make security risks visible and actionable.
  • Develop and mentor engineers at all levels through feedback, coaching, and growth opportunities; help them set and achieve career goals.
  • Foster a healthy, inclusive team culture built on trust, sustainable engineering practices, and visible, prioritized work.
  • Contribute to department-wide initiatives including incident response, audit support, and cross-functional security/engineering groups.
  • Champion organizational values by supporting journalistic independence and The New York Times' mission.

Qualifications

  • 3–5+ years of experience leading engineers as a people manager or tech lead in security engineering, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or related field; hands-on security engineering/infrastructure experience; experience running production workloads in AWS and/or GCP; familiarity with cloud-native security services and guardrails.
  • Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS).
  • Strong understanding of security controls across identity and access management, encryption, vulnerability management, network security, and authentication.
  • Demonstrated ability to partner with engineering teams to balance long-term security posture with near-term delivery needs.
  • Proven track record of hiring, developing, and retaining engineers from diverse backgrounds; building teams where people do their best work.
  • Excellent communication skills to explain complex topics to non-specialists and influence stakeholders.

Skills

Required:Security engineering managementSecurity platformsCloud platforms

Benefits

  • Variable pay such as annual bonus and restricted stock (for roles in the U.S.)
  • Medical, dental and vision benefits; Flexible Spending Accounts; company-matching 401(k); employee stock purchase plan; paid vacation, sick days, parental leave; tuition reimbursement and professional development programs
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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