Engineering Lead, Security Operations

Anchorage Digital is building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. The Engineering Lead for Security Operations is responsible for driving the growth of a high-performing security engineering team, mentoring team members, refining the security roadmap, and ensuring operational excellence in security practices.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the healthy growth of the engineering organization
• Help with hiring high-caliber Engineers to support the growth of the team
• Mentor and collaborate with team members to work toward their career goals
• Drive the processes that can sustain a high-performance engineering team
• Cultivate and contribute to Anchorage's culture, coach and mentor team members, help refine our roadmap and provide continuous support with our recruiting efforts
• Refine our security roadmap, drive operational excellence in vulnerability management and incident response, create technology strategy for security automation, and use your influence to facilitate judgment and critical thinking in decision making across your organization
• Monitor security industry trends and internal objectives to inform team and department-level goal-setting and decision-making
• Understand and proactively communicate how security work drives Anchorage's long-term growth and competitive advantage
• Lead hiring efforts, ensuring the recruitment and retention of top security talent by submitting referrals, conducting interviews, mentoring interviewers, and actively participating in external recruiting events
• Demonstrate strong leadership across multiple teams and departments, proactively improving collaboration and fostering a culture of shared learning
• Lead and communicate complex security ideas and solutions, ensuring alignment across your department and securing buy-in from key stakeholders
• Build trust and credibility by tailoring communication to influence senior stakeholders
• Manage individual contributors and may manage leads or other managers
• Define team direction and priorities in collaboration with department leadership and clearly communicate department and team strategy to team members
• 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, prioritizing 1:1s and growth conversations tailored to each team member's individual development goals
• Develop team members at multiple levels, both within and outside of your department
• Effectively manage team budget while finding creative ways to improve cost-efficiency
• Fully own team resource planning and end-to-end hiring process, accountable for achieving hiring goals

Requirements:

• 8+ years of technical experience including full-time security engineering or software engineering, with 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 the ability to provide technical guidance while managing people and processes
• Genuinely enjoy learning new things and have a proven track record of diving below the surface when faced with uncertainty, understanding the 'why' and the 'how,' not just the 'what'
• Demonstrate 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, influencing solutions across your team and multiple functions
• Contribute to department strategies, security frameworks, systems, and processes, ensuring alignment with broader organizational priorities
• Take ownership of complex security challenges, selecting the best methods and approaches with minimal oversight
• Lead and significantly contribute to large, cross-functional security projects, driving execution and impact across multiple teams
• Break down large-scale security initiatives into manageable tasks, proactively assessing trade-offs and priorities independently
• Independently navigate ambiguity, anticipating challenges and escalating only for critical blockers
• Deliver results that impact your department, with accountability for tactical security targets
• Monitor security industry trends and internal objectives to inform team and department-level goal-setting and decision-making
• Understand and proactively communicate how security work drives Anchorage's long-term growth and competitive advantage
• Lead hiring efforts, ensuring the recruitment and retention of top security talent by submitting referrals, conducting interviews, mentoring interviewers, and actively participating in external recruiting events
• Mentor mid to experienced teammates and help them align their efforts with department goals and company strategy
• Demonstrate strong leadership across multiple teams and departments, proactively improving collaboration and fostering a culture of shared learning
• Lead and communicate complex security ideas and solutions, ensuring alignment across your department and securing buy-in from key stakeholders
• Build trust and credibility by tailoring communication to influence senior stakeholders
• Proactively expand your professional network, developing key relationships inside and outside of Anchorage to drive long-term success
• Manage individual contributors and may manage leads or other managers
• Define team direction and priorities in collaboration with department leadership and clearly communicate department and team strategy to team members
• 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, prioritizing 1:1s and growth conversations tailored to each team member's individual development goals
• Develop team members at multiple levels, both within and outside of your department
• Effectively manage team budget while finding creative ways to improve cost-efficiency
• Fully own team resource planning and end-to-end hiring process, accountable for achieving hiring goals
• 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 (Formal CS degree NOT required)
• Self-describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail-oriented, hardworking, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action-oriented, and tenacious
• 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 the proliferation of cryptoasset innovations
• Emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system