Senior Security Engineering Manager Enterprise Security

The Team

Upstart’s Security Engineering team protects Upstart’s people systems products and data by building and operating security capabilities that reduce risk across the company. The team works across enterprise security security operations and detection security engineering to strengthen Upstart’s security posture through scalable controls effective monitoring and response secure tooling automation and cross-functional security programs.

As a Senior Security Manager for Enterprise Security Engineering at Upstart you will lead a team responsible for building and maturing security programs across enterprise security security operations and detection engineering. You will help define how Upstart identifies prioritizes prevents detects and responds to security risks across corporate systems cloud environments business applications endpoints identity platforms and critical security workflows.

This leader will shape a security engineering culture that prioritizes proactive and preventative controls over purely reactive response. By investing in durable controls automation detection coverage and early risk reduction the team can reduce costly incidents minimize operational disruption and focus its time on the highest-impact security risks. You will partner closely with Engineering IT Legal Compliance Risk and business leaders to mature Upstart’s security capabilities and ensure security priorities are aligned with company goals.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Lead the strategy roadmap and execution for security engineering programs across enterprise security security operations and detection security engineering.
• Manage coach and develop a team of security professionals ensuring the team has clear priorities measurable goals effective operating rhythms and opportunities for career growth.
• Build and mature proactive and preventative security controls across corporate systems cloud environments identity platforms endpoints SaaS applications and security operations workflows.
• Improve Upstart’s ability to detect investigate and respond to threats by strengthening detection coverage alert quality logging strategy response playbooks automation and operational processes.
• Drive cross-functional security initiatives across Engineering IT Compliance Legal Risk and business teams aligning security priorities with company objectives risk tolerance and operational needs.
• Establish and report on meaningful security engineering and operations metrics including program health control effectiveness detection and response performance remediation progress and risk reduction outcomes.
• Evaluate and improve security tooling processes and controls to reduce systemic risk increase operational efficiency and ensure the team is focused on the highest-value security work.
• Raise the maturity of Upstart’s security programs by identifying recurring issues addressing root causes and developing

What we’re looking for: 

• Minimum requirements:
• 8+ years of experience in information security security engineering enterprise security security operations detection and response incident response vulnerability management cloud security or related security domains.
• 3+ years of experience managing security professionals or leading security engineering programs across multiple teams or stakeholder groups.
• Experience owning roadmaps priorities metrics and execution for security programs with cross-functional dependencies.
• Experience building or operating security capabilities in cloud-based and enterprise environments including working knowledge of common security tooling logging monitoring detection identity endpoint and response practices.
• Experience leading security incidents or operational security programs including investigation coordination stakeholder communications remediation tracking and post-incident improvement.
• Experience partnering with Engineering IT Compliance Legal Risk or business teams to deliver measurable security outcomes.
• Preferred qualifications:
• Experience leading security programs across multiple domains such as enterprise security security operations detection engineering cloud security identity and access management endpoint security vulnerability management or incident response.
• Demonstrated experience building or improving security programs that emphasize proactive and preventative controls automation and early risk reduction over reactive incident response.
• Knowledge of AWS Kubernetes CI/CD security endpoint security identity and access management vulnerability management SIEM/SOAR logging pipelines and modern detection engineering practices.
• Ability to communicate security risk tradeoffs and recommendations clearly to technical non-technical and senior leadership audiences.
• Experience improving detection and response maturity through logging strategy detection coverage alert tuning automation playbooks tabletop exercises postmortems and measurable process improvements.
• Experience improving enterprise security programs across SaaS applications identity providers endpoint controls corporate infrastructure and employee security workflows.
• Experience operating in a regulated environment financial technology company or organization with high security privacy or compliance requirements.
• Security certifications such as CISSP CISM GIAC AWS Security Specialty or similar credentials.

Position location This role is available in the following locations: Remote - US

Time zone requirements The team operates on the East/West coast time zones. 

Travel requirements As a digital first company the majority of your work can be accomplished remotely. The majority of our employees can live and work anywhere in the U.S but are encouraged to to still spend high quality time in-person collaborating via regular onsites. The in-person sessions’ cadence varies depending on the team and role; most teams meet once or twice per quarter for 2-4 consecutive days at a time.

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What We Do

Upstart is the leading AI lending marketplace connecting millions of consumers to more than 100 banks and credit unions that leverage Upstart’s AI models and cloud applications to deliver superior credit products. With Upstart's AI lenders can approve more borrowers at lower rates across races ages and genders while delivering the exceptional digital-first experience customers demand. More than 80% of borrowers are approved instantly with zero documentation to upload. Founded in 2012 Upstart’s platform includes personal loans automotive retail and refinance loans home equity lines of credit and small-dollar “relief” loans. If you are energized by the impact you think you could make at Upstart we'd love to hear from you!

Why Work With Us

Connection to our mission creates a special environment where people feel passionately about the impact they make in the world. Upstart is fast-paced and we encourage ownership at all levels of the organization. As a result culture at Upstart is driven by Upstarters. Upstarters are proactive talented multi-dimensional and collaborative.

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