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Glean· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco Bay Area)$424.3k - $489.4kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Glean, responsible for leading security strategy, program, and operations across product, platform, corporate security, risk, and compliance; reports to the CTO. Drive measurable risk reduction and build a high-performing security organization in a fast-growing AI company.

Responsibilities

  • Set a risk-based security strategy, priorities, policies, metrics, and decision-making mechanisms that scale with the business.
  • Partner with Engineering and Product to build security into architecture, design, development, release, and operations.
  • Lead a measurable vulnerability-management and secure-development program spanning threat modeling, code and dependency risk, software supply-chain security, penetration testing, bug bounty, remediation ownership, and validation.
  • Oversee security for corporate systems, identity, endpoints, SaaS applications, cloud infrastructure, and privileged access.
  • Ensure the organization can detect, assess, contain, recover from, and learn from security incidents; coordinate with various stakeholders; ensure corrective actions are completed and validated.
  • Own security risk management, compliance strategy, audit readiness, and control effectiveness; support frameworks/regulatory requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI, FedRAMP).
  • Build and grow a high-performing security team across engineering, enterprise security, detection and response, and governance.
  • Build strong working relationships across the company and with customer-facing security leaders; contribute security expertise to commercial security products.

Qualifications

  • Senior security leadership experience managing enterprise-scale security programs at a high-growth technology or product company (CISO, deputy CISO, or senior security executive preferred).
  • Strong technical depth across product and application security, cloud/infrastructure security, IAM, secure development, and vulnerability management.
  • Experience building and operating security, detection, and incident-response programs; ability to lead through high-severity incidents.
  • Practical expertise in security risk management, governance, compliance, and audit readiness.
  • Track record partnering with Product and Engineering to ship secure products.
  • Experience building, leading, and retaining multidisciplinary teams; setting priorities and accountability.
  • Excellent executive communication and judgment; collaborative, pragmatic leadership with high security standards.
  • Valuable: experience securing enterprise AI/ML/LLM/agentic systems, data handling, model boundaries, tool access, adversarial testing; familiarity with FedRAMP or public-company governance.

Skills

Required:Security leadershipProduct and application securityCloud and infrastructure securityIdentity and access management

Benefits

  • Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage
  • Generous time-off policy
  • 401(k) plan
  • Home office improvement stipend
  • Annual education and wellness stipends
  • Regular events and daily healthy lunches
  • Diversity and inclusion commitment
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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