Responsibilities
- Hire for growth
- Create an environment of high ownership
- Work with leadership to continuously improve our organization
- Refine security roadmap
- Drive operational excellence in vulnerability management and incident response
- Create technology strategy for security automation
- Use influence to facilitate judgment and critical thinking in decision making across your organization
Requirements
- 8+ years of technical experience including full-time security engineering or software engineering
- 3+ years of leadership experience as a formal people manager
- Experience leading distributed teams, working cross-functionally across varying time zones
- Deep understanding of security fundamentals including vulnerability management, incident response, security monitoring, and secure coding practices
- Maintained a 'player-coach' skillset with ability to provide technical guidance while managing people and processes
- Genuinely enjoy learning new things and proven track record of diving below the surface when faced with uncertainty
- Extensive knowledge across multiple security domains (vulnerability management, incident response, security monitoring, application security) with deep expertise in at least one area
- Apply expertise and analytical skills to independently solve complex security problems
- Contribute to department strategies, security frameworks, systems, and processes
- Take ownership of complex security challenges with minimal oversight
- Lead and significantly contribute to large, cross-functional security projects
- Break down large-scale security initiatives into manageable tasks
- Independently navigate ambiguity
- Deliver results that impact your department
- Monitor security industry trends and internal objectives
- Understand and proactively communicate how security work drives Anchorage's long-term growth
- Lead hiring efforts, ensuring recruitment and retention of top security talent
- Mentor mid to experienced teammates
- Demonstrate strong leadership across multiple teams and departments
- Lead and communicate complex security ideas and solutions
- Build trust and credibility by tailoring communication to influence senior stakeholders
- Proactively expand professional network
- Manage individual contributors and may manage leads or other managers
- Define team direction and priorities
- Effectively translate strategy into individual goals, priorities and expectations
- Create an inclusive, high-performance environment
- Take proactive steps to address underperformance
- Invest in team development through coaching, feedback, and mentoring
- Develop team members at multiple levels
- Effectively manage team budget
- Fully own team resource planning and end-to-end hiring process
- Demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and growing a geographically distributed security engineering team
- Real-world experience building and maintaining security infrastructure, monitoring systems, and automation tools
- Deep understanding of security fundamentals: vulnerability management, incident response, security monitoring, secure coding practices, cloud security, and network security
- Ability to write scripting-level code in languages such as Python, Go, or bash
- Experience with SIEM tools, security scanning, and monitoring platforms
- Genuinely care about code quality, test infrastructure, and security best practices
- Prioritize risk management, compliance requirements, and business value in decision-making
- Developed 'computer science fundamentals' including concurrency, algorithms, and data structures
Nice to Have
- Experience with applied cryptography
- Familiarity with common standards and frameworks such as OWASP, NIST, ISO27001, and SOC 2
- Experience working in a regulated financial services environment
- In your mind the word 'crypto' stands for cryptography, not cryptocurrency
- Read blockchain protocol white papers for fun, and stay up to date with cryptoasset innovations
- Emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton
Work Arrangement
On-site — San Francisco, California, New York, New York, Porto, Portugal, Singapore, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Additional Information
- All new hires must complete an in-person onboarding process - no exceptions
- Security policy mandates physical identity verification and secure IT setup
- Village culture emphasis
- Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion
