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Senior Manager of Security Engineering

Santa Monica, California, United StatesOnsiteFull TimeManager / Head$276,000–$414,000 /yrPosted 19 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Role summary

Snap is seeking a Senior Manager of Security Engineering to define and drive a multi-year application security strategy, aligning with the company's product roadmap. This role involves identifying systemic product security risks, leading high-impact initiatives to reduce risk at scale, and establishing scalable practices for secure design, threat modeling, code review, and security testing. The manager will lead application security architecture reviews, drive automation-first approaches, and influence senior engineering leadership and executives on security strategy and risk tradeoffs. They will also recruit, develop, and coach high-caliber security engineers and managers, fostering an inclusive, high-performing team culture. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of web, mobile, and backend architectures, deep expertise in application security, and experience building and scaling secure SDLC programs in fast-paced, consumer-scale environments. Proficiency in leveraging AI tools for security and development is also required.

  • Define and drive a multi-year application security strategy aligned to Snap’s product roadmap and company priorities
  • Identify systemic product security risks and assume direct ownership of high-impact initiatives that reduce risk at scale across Snap’s application ecosystem
  • Establish scalable practices for secure design reviews, threat modeling, code review, and security testing (SAST, DAST, SCA, fuzzing, etc.)
  • Lead application security architecture reviews for high-risk or high-impact product initiatives
  • Drive automation-first approaches that increase security coverage while minimizing friction for engineering teams
  • Influence senior engineering leadership and executives on security strategy, risk tradeoffs, and investment decisions
  • Align team direction with organizational goals and contribute to quarterly and annual planning
  • Utilize AI tools and high velocity engineering workflows to design and ship scalable services while upholding rigorous standards for code correctness, security, and production ready quality code
  • Recruit and develop high-caliber security engineers and managers; build an inclusive, high-performing team culture
  • Coach and grow managers and senior ICs, strengthening technical depth and leadership bench strength across the org

### Benefits

  • Up to 28 weeks of parental leave and return-to-work program
  • Adoption, surrogacy, infertility, and fertility preservation benefits
  • Backup child care coverage, center-based care support, & caregiver assistance
  • Dependent Daycare Flexible Spending Account
  • Short-term disability, long-term disability, basic life insurance, and AD&D insurance
  • Services to support your path to parenthood & beyond - fertility support & family planning via Carrot, SNOO, Hinge Health
  • Lactation rooms (based on office location) and breastmilk shipping coverage
  • For Snap, employees taking care of loved ones with complex, chronic, or ongoing care needs (i.e. parent with Dementia, spouse with Cancer, child with Autism), your family can save time, money, & stress with Wellthy
  • Comprehensive medical coverage, including PPO, HDHP with HSA, and HMO options
  • Dental coverage, including orthodontia benefits
  • Vision coverage, including frame and contact allowance and LASIK benefits
  • Free membership to One Medical for primary and urgent healthcare services
  • Business Travel Insurance
  • Gym perks and discounts
  • Team fitness classes and races
  • Sports leagues
  • Cooking and nutritional workshops
  • Well-being reimbursement
  • Unlimited access to virtual physical therapy with Anthem
  • 15 sessions per year of mental health for you + dependents through Lyra
  • Generous time off and leave programs. In the US, this includes the following:
  • Up to 3 weeks (120 hours) of vacation time and 1 floating holiday for non-exempt team members
  • 12 paid holidays per year
  • 15 sick and safe days per year
  • Meditation and yoga classes
  • Speaker series, classes, and subscriptions to educational programs
  • Social gatherings, team outings, and volunteering programs
  • Snap Inc. provides a 401(k) plan that allows you to save on a pre-tax, Roth, and after-tax basis for your retirement (yes, we even have the Mega backdoor option!) Snap will also match 100% up to 3% of your contribution and then 50% on your 4th and 5th%
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare, daycare and commuter
  • Health Savings Account with employer contributions
  • Rocket Lawyer memberships
  • Financial education programs
  • Snap exclusive discounts and perks
  • Compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success!- Strong understanding of web, mobile, and backend application architectures
  • Deep expertise in application security, including secure architecture, common vulnerability classes (OWASP Top 10), mobile security, and modern attack techniques
  • Experience partnering with product engineering teams in fast-paced, consumer-scale environments
  • Experience building and scaling secure SDLC programs across large engineering organizations
  • Adaptability in learning and applying evolving AI systems and tools to remain at the forefront of engineering trends and modern development practices
  • Familiarity with security testing methodologies including SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA, fuzzing, and manual code review
  • Proficiency in, or a strong aptitude for, leveraging AI tools to streamline development, paired with the critical judgment to audit generated output for architectural integrity, performance bottlenecks, and security risks
  • Demonstrated ability to operate strategically while staying connected to technical details
  • 2+ years of experience managing high-performing managers or providing technical and strategic leadership for engineering teams focused on advertising applications
  • 9+ years of post-Bachelor’s security experience; or a Master’s degree in a technical field + 8+ year of post-grad security experience; or a PhD in a related technical field + 5+ years of security experience
  • Bachelors in technical field such as computer science, mathematics, statistics or equivalent years of experience
  • Proven experience in managing, mentoring, and scaling diverse engineering teams to consistently deliver complex, high-impact projects
  • Demonstrated success embedding security into high-velocity product organizations
  • Experience leading application security in a large consumer technology company
  • Experience operating in zero-trust or BeyondCorp-inspired environments

Sample Snap interview questions

  • 1

    Design a system for managing a distributed caching layer.

    system designmedium
  • 2

    How would you design an effective chunking strategy for information in a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented?

    codingmedium
  • 3

    What methods or metrics did you use to evaluate how well your LLM performs?

    technicalmedium
  • 4

    Implement a Trie Implement a Trie for prefix matching. Input: insert("hello"), startsWith("hel") Output: TRUE Explanation: Traverses the Trie nodes to confirm that the prefix "hel" actively exists within the inserted word "hello".

    technicalmedium
  • 5

    Explain transformers

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