Requirements:

• Prior experience running a security engineering team.
• You have a strong engineering background and are capable of engaging in technical conversations and challenging teams to arrive at strong technical decisions themselves.
• You will be comfortable working with engineering teams who have a strong sense of autonomy in their decision-making, be it technical or product-focused.
• While you’re great with people and adept at managing relationships, you still keep up-to-date with the latest technical trends and shifts to maintain and enhance your understanding of the challenges your teams face.
• You approach security with a DevOps mindset. You prefer security by enablement, automation, and guardrails over gates and roadblocks.
• You have familiarity with securing and operating on public Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) providers, with Kubernetes, and with securing combined open-source software (OSS) and SaaS products.
• You are an excellent written and verbal communicator. You can articulate complex cybersecurity concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. You are adept at translating security problems to business impact.

Nice to haves:

• A technical background, ideally with programming or software engineering experience, before transitioning into security & leadership.
• Working knowledge of Grafana Labs OSS projects and products. Experience in using observability tooling to solve security problems. 
• Experience working with OSS communities.
• Experience securing large-scale distributed systems.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead our application security team covering a range of areas, including application security, cloud security, and internal tooling development.
• Lead 1st and 3rd party vulnerability management, including coordinated disclosure with external reporters and embargoed fixes.
• Define, optimize, and implement the engineering strategy in concert with the security leadership team, ICs and stakeholders across the business.
• Regular 1:1s, coaching and mentoring to ensure your team members are motivated, happy and engaged. Providing continuous feedback to ensure that they can add value while maintaining high standards.
• Collaborating with our engineering leaders and other organization stakeholders to help define and influence wider product strategy, roadmaps and designs.
• Be actively engaged with significant incidents, including preparation, simulation, response, and affected customer notification and communications.
• Contributing to and reviewing design documents for upcoming projects. Ensuring projects are well-defined and ready for development. Advise on how to break down projects into tasks.

Perks and Benefits:

• 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
• Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment.
• Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates.
• Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things.
• Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work.
• Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics.
• Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career.
• Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human.
• Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do.
• In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it. 
• Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable.