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Manager, Security Engineering, Production Security

Snap Inc.· Engineering
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Hybrid (Los Angeles & Palo Alto)$251k - $377k + equityFull timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Security Engineering Manager overseeing Snap's Production Security team, focused on securing production infrastructure across AWS and Google Cloud, building security services, and enabling secure development at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Set and drive a multi-year technical strategy for securing Snap's production infrastructure across network perimeter, cloud organization hardening, machine credentials and workload identity, and CI/CD.
  • Translate production risk into a prioritized roadmap, balancing near-term security with long-term outcomes, team productivity, and system health.
  • Ensure platforms built and operated by the team demonstrate high technical quality, reliability, and operational excellence.
  • Balance operational load with planned initiatives, owning service reliability, on-call health, and customer support for production security services and developer-facing libraries; participate in incident response.
  • Drive identification, triage, and remediation of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across cloud environments and backend systems with clear ownership and timelines.
  • Oversee security reviews of platforms, backend services, and business integrations; manage exception handling and formal risk acceptance where needed.
  • Partner with Infrastructure, Developer Productivity, and Product Engineering to embed security controls into service abstractions; promote security by default.
  • Influence secure and responsible adoption of LLMs, AI tooling, and agentic workloads with focus on identity, access boundaries, and data protection.
  • Collaborate with Detection and Response, Offensive Security, and infrastructure teams during incidents and red team engagements to drive durable fixes.
  • Align team direction with organizational goals and participate in quarterly/annual planning for high-impact risks.
  • Recruit and develop engineers; foster a collaborative, productive security culture; invest in career growth and effective performance management.

Qualifications

  • 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.
  • 1+ year(s) of experience as an Engineering Manager.

Skills

Required:Production securityCloud platformsProgrammingZero-trust and defense-in-depthCommunication

Benefits

  • paid parental leave
  • comprehensive medical coverage
  • emotional and mental health support programs
  • compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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