[Hiring] Director of Security Engineering @Sysdig

Role Description

Reporting to the CISO, you build security engineering for Sysdig, end to end, across the full code-to-cloud lifecycle. This is a senior leadership role on the Trust & Security team. You'll lead a small, high-leverage team of senior and staff security engineers. This team's technical direction will be set by you, and you'll grow it through hiring and the development of senior talent. Additionally, you'll own the security-engineering roadmap, standards, and budget.

• Set functional strategy with the CISO and senior leadership.
• Translate security strategy into operational plans and policy, cascade it across the function, and act as the final decision-maker for security-engineering standards, tooling, and practices.
• Bring an AI-first mindset to security delivery.
• Make AI-assisted and agent-driven development safe across the org.
• Partner with product to provide thoughtful, hands-on guidance to the roadmap.
• Represent security with executives and customers.
• Turn compliance into assurance.
• Model how we lead and champion Sysdig's values.

Qualifications

• 7 or more years in security or software engineering, including 4+ years leading and developing engineers.
• Demonstrated, deep partnership with engineering teams.
• Experience using AI and agentic tooling to deliver security capability.
• A genuine product-partnership instinct.
• Technical foundations in cloud and Kubernetes security, infrastructure-as-code, and modern CI/CD.
• A view of compliance (ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2 Type II) as continuous assurance to automate.

Requirements

• Familiarity with eBPF and runtime security concepts.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or secure "paved road" / scaffolding tooling.
• Background in promoting AI workloads or shipping AI security capabilities.
• A public voice and the appetite to use it — conference talks, writing, or open-source work.

Benefits

• Extra days off to prioritize your well-being.
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a 3% company match.
• Maternity and Parental Leave.
• Mental health support for you and your family through the Modern Health app.
• Full health benefits package for you and your family.
• The U.S. annual salary range for this full-time position is between 186,000 and 256,000 USD/year.

Company Description

Sysdig values a diverse workplace and encourages women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. Sysdig is an equal-opportunity employer. Sysdig does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected status.