Product Security Engineering Manager

Job Summary 

As a Product Security Engineering Manager, you will set strategy and lead execution of our application security, platform security, and federal (FedRAMP) programs. You will grow and mentor a geographically distributed team of security engineers. If you are passionate about building secure-by-default systems, embedding security throughout engineering, and love getting your hands dirty in the technical details while empowering a team, we want to meet you.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Drive Team Excellence: Lead, grow, and empower a high-performing team of product security engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence, psychological safety, and continuous learning
• Drive the Secure SDLC: Own and evolve our secure development lifecycle. You will drive "shift-left" initiatives across architecture reviews, threat modeling, SAST/DAST, continuous end-to-end testing, and advanced fuzzing
• Architect Secure Foundations: Design and launch a Security Foundations program focused on secure-by-default engineering. Your goal isn't just to find bugs, but to systematically eradicate entire classes of vulnerabilities through paved roads and developer guardrails
• Spearhead FedRAMP Initiatives: Own the security roadmap and day-to-day operations of our FedRAMP program

Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities 

Experience & Leadership

• Deep Technical Background: 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with a focus on Product Security, Application Security, or Platform Security
• Leadership Experience: 2+ years of experience directly managing and mentoring a team of security engineers
• Program and Project Management: Demonstrable experience driving sustained improvement and managing complex projects that span multiple teams and business units
• Clear Communication: Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to build strong partnerships with software engineering, DevOps, and product management teams, and operations teams

Technical Skills

• Secure SDLC Mastery: Deep, hands-on experience integrating security into modern CI/CD pipelines. You are highly proficient in threat modeling, architecture reviews, implementing automated testing (SAST, DAST, SCA, Fuzzing), and SDLC program management
• Software Engineering: Fluency in at least one or more modern programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Ruby, Java) to facilitate code reviews, script automation, and build out security tooling
• Cloud & Platform Security: Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), Linux, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Compliance as Engineering: Practical experience supporting compliance requirements such as Fedramp (preferred), PCI, SOC2, ISO27001, NIST 800-53

Bonus Points (Preferred but not required)

• Previous experience managing, triaging, or actively participating in Bug Bounty programs
• A background in building "paved roads" or secure-by-default internal libraries to eliminate entire classes of vulnerabilities
• Experience working within a fast-paced, high-growth security or SaaS company

Pay Range Disclosure

At Bugcrowd, we strive for fairness, equality and to create an environment that allows our people to perform at their very best. Our compensation philosophy is to foster a collaborative community that rewards, attracts and retains the best possible talent.

The provided salary details are based on US national averages and we retain the flexibility to tailor to the needs of the business. The national estimate for the current base range for this position is $176,000 - $242,000.

This position may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary bonus program or commission plan, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.