Senior-Security Engineering Manager, Product Security Foundations - Slack

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About Slack Product Security

Our Product Security Team supports the following tenet of Slack’s mission: make people’s working lives more secure. We’re serious about building a simple-to-use yet secure product, and most importantly, protecting our customers’ data. We take a systematic approach to security and strive to ensure we provide low-friction, and high-impact security across everything we do. As a member of the Product Security team, you care about shipping secure products and ensuring the way in for the bad actors is never through the front door (or the back)! You are passionate about enabling our developers to ship secure products. You think about your team as not fixing bugs but developing effective ways to prevent them. Your work will directly impact the way millions of people, teams, and businesses get things done using Slack.

Slack has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—we look for people who are inquisitive, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. In our work together we aim to be smart, humble, hardworking, and, above all, collaborative. If this sounds like a good fit for you, read on ahead!

Overview

Slack’s Product Security Foundations (PSF) group is a dedicated software engineering team within Product Security focused on streamlining the process of secure development, ensuring it is user-friendly for all engineers. A critical aspect of this is creating standardized methods, libraries, tools, and services for engineers across Slack. Join an existing, high-performance, thoughtful team and help make the secure choice the easy one for all of the engineers at Slack! Examples of work this team owns include authorization frameworks that support Slack APIs, core authentication libraries, safe image and attachment processing, in addition to other secure by default libraries.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of highly experienced software security engineers

• Own security-critical areas of the backend such as authorization, authentication, and cryptography

• Promote active, continuous learning and improvement within your team. Cultivate team members’ growth through feedback, coaching, and career development.

• Manage multiple concurrent projects while effectively solving problems that cross product boundaries.

• Establish strong partnerships and champion quality throughout a cross-functional organization to support the best possible security and engineering outcomes.

• Work closely with other Slack Product Security teams to identify, track and remediate risk.

• Support developer productivity, through training, driving solutions and tooling.

• Own key metrics around security incidents, and risk trends in the Slack codebase.

• Drive a security-first approach to software development and delivery.

• Accountable for on-call incident escalation coverage and ProdSec incident response.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, related technical field required, or equivalent practical experience.

• Minimum 2 years of experience managing a team of software engineers.

• Strong expertise in software engineering best practices.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with high attention to detail.

• Ability to communicate with empathy when delivering constructive feedback to engineers.

• Experience collecting and analyzing feedback from developers.

• Proven track record of growing new developers.

• Interest in leading a security software team focused on the backend and foundational areas of the codebase.

Preferred Skills

• A demonstrated track record of cross-organizational projects.

• You've used Slack and are excited to make it better.

• Excellence as a great teammate who thrives in a collaborative environment.

• Be a constant learner who looks to solve interesting and challenging problems.

Slack is where work happens. It connects you with the people and apps you work with every day, no matter where you are or what you do. We believe everyone deserves to work in a welcoming, respectful, and empathetic culture. We live by our values and hire accordingly. 

Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to Slack's values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal-opportunity employer and a fun place to work. Come do the best work of your life here at Slack.

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For Colorado-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $160,700 to $221,000.

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