Manager, Security Engineering, Production Security at Snapchat in Los Angeles, CA

Job description

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company operates Snapchat , a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world, and Specs Inc. , a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human, in addition to Bitmoji , Saturn, and other digital services. Snap Security teams protect the trust and safety of our global community by securing the systems and data that power Snapchat. We safeguard hundreds of millions of Snapchatters every day, ensuring that every product and service is built on a foundation of security and resilience. Our values guide everything we do - from how we anticipate and mitigate threats to how we collaborate across Snap. We move fast, with precision, and always execute with privacy at the forefront. We're looking for a Security Engineering Manager to lead our Production Security team at Snap Inc! As the leader of the team, you will own the security of the infrastructure that runs Snapchat. Your team hardens Snap's production environment across AWS and Google Cloud, builds the perimeter, workload identity, and deployment controls that thousands of services depend on, and makes the secure path the easiest path for Snap developers. This is a builder's role as much as a leadership one. You will set technical direction for a portfolio of security services used company-wide, and you will be accountable for both their engineering quality and their day-to-day operation. What you'll do: Set and drive a multi-year technical strategy for securing Snap's production infrastructure across network perimeter, cloud organization hardening, machine credentials and workload identity, and CI/CD. Translate production risk into a prioritized roadmap, making judicious tradeoffs between near-term asks, long-term security outcomes, team productivity, and system health. Ensure the platforms your team builds and operates, from perimeter and cloud configuration enforcement to service identity and secrets management, consistently demonstrate high technical quality, reliability, and operational excellence. Balance a substantial operational load against planned initiatives, owning service reliability, on-call health, and the customer support model for a portfolio of production security services and developer-facing libraries, and participate directly in incident response for production environments. Drive identification, triage, and remediation of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across cloud environments and backend systems, holding clear ownership and timelines rather than accumulating open findings. Oversee security reviews of platforms, backend services, and business application integrations, and set a review model that produces measurable risk reduction while unblocking engineering teams. This includes managing exception handling and formal risk acceptance when a control cannot be met. Partner closely with Infrastructure, Developer Productivity, and Product Engineering to embed security controls inside Snap's service abstractions so that teams inherit security by default instead of adopting it by exception. Influence the secure and responsible adoption of LLMs, AI tooling, and agentic workloads across Snap's engineering ecosystem, with a focus on identity, access boundaries, and data protection. Partner with Detection and Response, Offensive Security, and infrastructure teams during incidents and red team engagements to drive containment and durable fixes rather than one-off patches. Align your team's direction with the strategic goals of the organization, and participate in quarterly and annual planning so investment lands on the highest impact risks. Recruit high caliber engineers and build an engaging, collaborative, and producti