Senior Director, Security Engineering - Security Operations ID-12428
Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance.
It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers.
For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.
Take onboarding, for example.
With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365-all within 90 seconds.
Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world's top investors-including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock-and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.
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About the role
We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced security leader to expand and operate our fast-growing Security Operations function.
The role reports directly to Rippling's CISO and leads SIRT, Detection Engineering, Corporate Security and will add a Red Team this year.
What you will do
- Lead global teams of talented security engineers across Security Operations.
- Create the vision, strategy, and roadmap for our security operations, and iteratively deliver on these goals quarter over quarter.
- Build effective security controls that measurably reduce risk.
- Foster strong relationships with the rest of the Security and Engineering organization, helping them prioritize the right security work.
- Work with our legal, PR and customer support teams to both manage incidents and improve processes.
What you will need
- 15+ years of experience in Security Engineering - particularly working in Detection & Response roles and building SecOps programs at SaaS companies.
- 10+ years of experience in a leadership role.
- You are a hands-on technical leader who is able to lead people and technical roadmaps.
You are a people leader, but you have not grown too far from your technical roots and are excited about the art of building security into complex systems. - Excellent leadership and people management skills.
- A talent magnet; you can attract and retain top security talent.
- Significant experience across the entire IR life cycle including:
running incidents and building detection controls. - Experience working with and briefing executives, legal counsel and PR during security incidents.
- Excellent communication skills and an ability to influence outside of the security domain.
- An ability to organize and execute with experience in engineering processes, OKRs and KPIs.
Driving security program maturity through code and security metrics. - Pragmatism, and a passion for SaaS products and start-up culture.
Additional Information
Rippling is an equal opportunity employer.
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics.
Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process.
To request a reasonable accommodation, please email ***.
Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture.
For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.
This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity.
The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.
A variety of factors are considered when determining someone's compensation-including a candidate's professional background, experience, and location.
Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.
