Senior Security Engineering Manager, Enterprise Security

Upstart is an AI lending marketplace that partners with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit through technology. The Senior Security Engineering Manager will lead enterprise security, security operations, and detection engineering programs, manage and develop a security team, and mature proactive controls, monitoring, automation, and response capabilities. The role partners cross-functionally to reduce security risk and align security priorities with company objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution for security engineering programs across enterprise security, security operations, and detection security engineering
• Manage, coach, and develop a team of security professionals, ensuring the team has clear priorities, measurable goals, effective operating rhythms, and opportunities for career growth
• Build and mature proactive and preventative security controls across corporate systems, cloud environments, identity platforms, endpoints, SaaS applications, and security operations workflows
• Improve Upstart’s ability to detect, investigate, and respond to threats by strengthening detection coverage, alert quality, logging strategy, response playbooks, automation, and operational processes
• Drive cross-functional security initiatives across Engineering, IT, Compliance, Legal, Risk, and business teams, aligning security priorities with company objectives, risk tolerance, and operational needs
• Establish and report on meaningful security engineering and operations metrics, including program health, control effectiveness, detection and response performance, remediation progress, and risk reduction outcomes
• Evaluate and improve security tooling, processes, and controls to reduce systemic risk, increase operational efficiency, and ensure the team is focused on the highest-value security work
• Raise the maturity of Upstart’s security programs by identifying recurring issues, addressing root causes, and developing

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in information security, security engineering, enterprise security, security operations, detection and response, incident response, vulnerability management, cloud security, or related security domains
• 3+ years of experience managing security professionals or leading security engineering programs across multiple teams or stakeholder groups
• Experience owning roadmaps, priorities, metrics, and execution for security programs with cross-functional dependencies
• Experience building or operating security capabilities in cloud-based and enterprise environments, including working knowledge of common security tooling, logging, monitoring, detection, identity, endpoint, and response practices
• Experience leading security incidents or operational security programs, including investigation coordination, stakeholder communications, remediation tracking, and post-incident improvement
• Experience partnering with Engineering, IT, Compliance, Legal, Risk, or business teams to deliver measurable security outcomes
• This role is available in the following locations: Remote - US
• The team operates on the East/West coast time zones
• Experience leading security programs across multiple domains such as enterprise security, security operations, detection engineering, cloud security, identity and access management, endpoint security, vulnerability management, or incident response
• Demonstrated experience building or improving security programs that emphasize proactive and preventative controls, automation, and early risk reduction over reactive incident response
• Knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD security, endpoint security, identity and access management, vulnerability management, SIEM/SOAR, logging pipelines, and modern detection engineering practices
• Ability to communicate security risk, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical, non-technical, and senior leadership audiences
• Experience improving detection and response maturity through logging strategy, detection coverage, alert tuning, automation, playbooks, tabletop exercises, postmortems, and measurable process improvements
• Experience improving enterprise security programs across SaaS applications, identity providers, endpoint controls, corporate infrastructure, and employee security workflows
• Experience operating in a regulated environment, financial technology company, or organization with high security, privacy, or compliance requirements
• Security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC, AWS Security Specialty, or similar credentials