Security Engineering Manager
Quick Summary
OUR ORIGIN STORY 🎂 In 2011 SkySlope started as an idea born at the kitchen table of our CEO, with just him and two others. Headquartered in Sacramento, California,
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Own the security roadmap across its major domains: identity and credential standards (short-lived, machine-identity-based credentials and OIDC federation), least-privilege authorization, secrets management, managed-device standards, attack-surface governance, secure SDLC (commit signing and org-wide SAST, dependency and secret scanning), centralized logging and detection, vulnerability disclosure, and AI governance.
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Sequence and prioritize the program pragmatically, targeting the highest risk reduction per unit of engineering effort first.
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Own the security-debt register: maintain security work as a visible, prioritized engineering backlog rather than an audit artifact.
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Own security tooling and vendor decisions, including evaluation, selection, and build-vs-buy judgment.
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Deliver clear, honest executive reporting on program status, risk posture, and progress.
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Lead and participate directly in architecture and design reviews for security-relevant work.
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Contribute hands-on where it matters most: proofs of concept, detection logic, automation, and reviews.
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Set and uphold the technical bar for security engineering work across the team.
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Hire security engineers across levels and build an effective, collaborative team.
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Coach and mentor each direct report through personal and performance management, including growing an early-career engineer into a strong contributor.
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Build a team culture where security work is engineering work: shipped, measured, and iterated.
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Work with DevOps, IT, and product engineering teams to embed security standards into how work already gets done — paved roads over gates.
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Communicate early and often, building trust between security and the rest of engineering.
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Ensure security guidance is concrete and actionable, not theoretical.
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Apply AI tooling to security review, triage, and detection engineering, and define the guardrails under which it operates.
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Shape SkySlope's AI governance standards in partnership with engineering leadership.
Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
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Security program milestones defined, communicated, and delivered
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Security-debt register established and demonstrably burning down
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Team hired, retained, and growing (manager and peer observations)
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Quality and clarity of executive reporting
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Strong senior/staff-level individual contributor background in security engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering; you have personally built the kinds of systems you will now lead
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Demonstrated ability to design and drive a security program or comparable cross-cutting technical initiative from ambiguity to delivery
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Working depth in modern cloud security practice: cloud IAM, credential federation, secrets management, secure SDLC, and detection/logging (we run multi-cloud: primarily AWS, a growing GCP footprint, and a small amount of Azure; depth in one cloud and fluency across the rest is fine)
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Strong coaching and mentoring skills, with a track record of growing engineers, including those early in their careers
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Sound judgment on tooling and vendor decisions, including knowing when to build and when to buy
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Clear, direct communicator with executives and with engineers, in writing and in person
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Enthusiasm for using AI as a working tool in security engineering; we want practitioners who are energized by this, not skeptical of it
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Pragmatism: bias toward risk reduction that ships over frameworks that impress
We care about demonstrated ability, not certifications or credentials. If you've built and led this kind of work, we want to talk to you regardless of which letters follow your name.
Location & Eligibility
Listing Details
- Posted
- September 1, 2026
- First seen
- September 3, 2026
- Last seen
- September 4, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 0
- Repost count
- 0
- Trust Level
- 80%
- Scored at
- September 3, 2026
Signal breakdown
SkySlope is a real estate technology company that provides a customer experience platform for brokers, agents, auditors, and transaction coordinators to manage transactions from contract to close.
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