[Hiring] Manager Security Engineer, Operations @Fivetran

Role Description

Fivetran + dbt is seeking a Manager of Security Operations, Incident Detection and Response, to bolster and improve the robustness and security of the platform and the entire enterprise. This people-leadership role is hands-on and execution-focused, requiring deep expertise in security operations, incident detection and response, AI-driven security automation, and securing multi-tenant SaaS environments. You'll build and lead a high-performing team, own the detection and response technology stack, and serve as the accountable leader for incident response across the entire enterprise, ensuring threats are detected, contained, and remediated quickly from endpoint to cloud to production.

This is a full-time remote position based out of the US (EST Time Zone).

Technologies You’ll Use

• Crowdstrike
• Okta
• Google Workspace
• Wiz
• Open Source
• Notion
• JIRA

What You’ll Do

• People Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a team of detection and response engineers and analysts. Set clear goals, manage performance, and grow careers while fostering a culture of ownership, curiosity, and urgency.
• Hiring & Team Building: Recruit, hire, and onboard top security talent. Define team structure, roles, on-call rotations, and hiring plans to scale the team alongside the business.
• Enterprise Incident Response: Own the incident response program for the entire enterprise, including investigation, containment, eradication, remediation, and post-incident review. Act as incident commander for major security events and coordinate with Legal, Privacy, Communications, and executive leadership.
• Detection Engineering: Build, optimize, and maintain high-fidelity detections across cloud, identity, endpoint, SaaS, and application layers, using threat-informed approaches such as MITRE ATT&CK to close coverage gaps.
• AI-Driven Security Operations: Drive the adoption of AI, including LLMs and AI agents, to automate alert triage, enrichment, investigation, and response. Evaluate and integrate AI capabilities to scale the team, and build detections for threats targeting AI systems and AI usage across the enterprise.
• Multi-Tenant SaaS Security: Design detection and response strategies tailored to a multi-tenant SaaS platform, including tenant isolation, cross-tenant access, and customer data protection. Lead customer-impacting incident response and coordinate customer notifications.
• Security Technology Ownership: Own the security operations technology stack, including SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, cloud detection and response, and log pipelines. Manage the roadmap, budget, and vendor relationships.
• Threat Hunting & Intelligence: Lead proactive threat hunting and integrate threat intelligence to identify and mitigate emerging threats before they impact the business.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work directly with engineering, infrastructure, IT, application security, and GRC teams to integrate detection and response practices and remediate risks across build pipelines, runtime environments, and corporate systems.
• Tooling & Automation: Develop and maintain automation, playbooks, and integrations to streamline security processes and provide self-service security tools to the organization.
• Security Standards & Metrics: Implement consistent security controls, monitoring, and alerting across the enterprise. Define and report on key metrics such as mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR), and support compliance requirements.
• Knowledge Sharing: Stay up to date with trends in security operations, incident response, cloud security, and AI security, applying this knowledge to improve the Fivetran platform's security posture.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in detecting, investigating, and responding to security incidents, with a track record of leading enterprise-wide incident response.
• Proven experience managing, hiring, and developing security teams, including setting priorities, managing performance, and building a strong team culture.
• Extensive experience securing and responding to incidents in multi-tenant SaaS environments at scale, with a strong understanding of tenant isolation and customer data protection.
• Hands-on experience applying AI, including LLMs and AI agents, to security operations to automate detection, triage, and response, and a strong understanding of the risks AI introduces.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), Kubernetes, and containerized environments, including cloud-native logging and detection.
• Proficiency with SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, identity, and cloud detection tools, and experience integrating them into automated workflows.
• Experience owning a security technology roadmap, including tool selection, budgets, and vendor management.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to make sound decisions under pressure in fast-paced environments.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with and educate engineering teams, and to communicate clearly with executives and customers during incidents.
• Demonstrates strong curiosity, a sense of urgency, and a hands-on approach to diving deep into complex technical problems to drive timely and effective solutions.

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance
• Generous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, including a year-end Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off.
• RSU stock grants
• Professional development and training opportunities
• Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
• Monthly cell phone stipend
• Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.