Engineering Manager, Security

Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model, which combines the flexibility of working from home with the benefits of gathering in person. Team members can work primarily remotely in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, and Portugal. Conditions permitting, teams will meet in person a few times every quarter at one of Grammarly's hubs, currently in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a shared workspace in Krakow.
Grammarly team members in this role are required to live within a daily commutable distance to San Francisco. Grammarly may provide relocation assistance.
The opportunity
Grammarly empowers people to thrive and connect whenever and wherever they communicate. Every day, over 30 million people and 50,000 teams around the world rely on our AI-powered communication assistance technology. All of this begins with our team collaborating in a values-driven and learning-oriented environment.
User Trust is at the heart of everything that we do. To achieve our ambitious goals, we're looking for an Engineering Manager to join the Security Engineering team at Grammarly. This person will report to our CISO and will be responsible for leading all Grammarly security teams in North America. They will also be responsible for establishing our Security Intelligence organization, including the red team, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and security research. Based on the candidate's interests and experience, they might lead additional global security functions (e.g., incident response, corporate security, etc).
Grammarly's security engineers have the freedom to develop practical solutions that, in turn, influence our security culture. The engineering landscape at Grammarly is complex, as we create innovative product offerings, expand to new platforms, and scale underlying cloud systems-all while strengthening and expanding our global team. Read more about our stack or hear from our team on our technical blog .
Your impact
As Engineering Manager, Security, you will:

• Grow and lead security team(s) in a fast-paced SaaS company.
• Empower the team and mentor its engineers, helping them advance in their careers.
• Lead end-to-end red team operations across the corporate and production environment to validate our prevention, detection, and response capabilities.
• Establish the strategy, vision, and team for our threat intelligence and threat-hunting practice.
• Identify key areas within Grammarly for deeper investment in offensive and defensive security research to ensure security practices are hardened to withstand the most determined adversaries.
• Work with the product development teams, raising security awareness and offering expertise to keep our product protected through all stages of software development.
• Represent Grammarly's security engineering organization both within and outside of the company.

We're looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values-is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is able to collaborate in person in San Francisco 4 weeks per quarter.
• Is a security practitioner with a proven record of contributions in the following security domains: red team, threat hunting, threat intelligence, and security research.
• Builds strong relationships with their direct reports and peers across the company.
• Nurtures the team talent and raises the technical talent bar when recruiting for their team.
• Identifies impactful and practical solutions for security, from low-hanging fruit to long-term investments.
• Effectively sets and communicates priorities for themselves and their team while driving execution.

Support for you, professionally and personally

• Professional growth: We hire people we trust and give team members autonomy to do their best work. We also support professional development with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
• A connected team: Grammarly builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. We have a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER values. We also take time to celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific events and programs.
• Comprehensive benefits: Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing superior health care (including mental health benefits). We also offer support to set up a home office, ample and defined time off, gym and recreation stipends, and more.

We encourage you to apply
At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all-especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations-to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and participant in the US Federal E-Verify program.
Please note that Grammarly's COVID-19 vaccination policy requires that all team members in North America be vaccinated against COVID-19 to meet in person for Grammarly business or to work from a North America hub location. It is expected that this will be a requirement for this role. Qualified candidates in North America who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons or because of a sincerely held religious belief may request a reasonable accommodation to this policy. For Europe, this policy requires team members to be vaccinated or produce a daily negative COVID-19 test administered on-site to work from the hub or attend in-person meetings.
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