ProdSecOps Manager

Location(s) Available: Bangalore India

About the Team

TheProduct Security Operations team is the central nervous system of Cloudflares security posture. We manage the end-to-end lifecycle of vulnerabilities across our entire global product suite. This team bridges the gap between external security researchers automated scanning telemetry and our core engineering squads. As the Manager of this team you will lead a high-performing group of engineers to ensure that security findings are not just identified but systematically eradicated.

About the Role / What Youll Do

As an Engineering Manager you will transition from individual execution to Strategic Alignment and People Leadership. You will be responsible for the Remediation Engine of the company ensuring your team has the resources clear priorities and technical guidance to secure Cloudflares CI/CD pipeline.

1. People Leadership & Mentorship

• Growth Coaching: Directly manage and mentor a team of security engineers focusing on their career progression from manual triage to security automation and architectural thinking.
• Technical Stewardship: Support senior engineers in designing high-level security Guardrails and Secure-by-Default libraries ensuring technical visions align with operational workloads.
• Performance Management: Set clear KPIs for the team focusing on signal-to-noise ratios mean-time-to-remediate (MTTR) and researcher satisfaction.

2. Operational Strategy

• Vulnerability Pipeline Management: Oversee the global intake of findings from Bug Bounty platforms SAST DAST and SCA. Ensure the team identifies patterns requiring systemic fixes rather than just clearing tickets.
• Incident Escalation: Act as the primary escalation point for critical product vulnerabilities. Partner with VPs of Engineering and the CTO to decide when to accept risk for speed versus when to mandate architectural halts.
• Tooling Roadmap: Define the long-term roadmap for security automationmoving the team from manual chasing to automated remediation workflows and Slack/Jira integrations.

3. Cross-Functional Influence

• Stakeholder Management: Partner with Product Managers and Engineering Directors to integrate security remediation into their quarterly planning and OKRs.
• Policy Design: Define and enforce Zero Tolerance vulnerability classes and auto-remediation rules that block insecure deployments at the Pull Request level.

Requirements

• Experience: 10 years experience in Product Security Application Security or SecOps including a background in formal people management or technical team leadership.
• Technical Depth: Previous hands-on experience with the OWASP Top 10 modern CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native security (Go Rust or Kubernetes environments).
• Operational Excellence: Deep understanding of managing high-volume vulnerability programs (Bug Bounty SAST/DAST) and the diplomacy required for successful remediation.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to translate complex technical risks into business impact for non-technical senior leadership.
• Education: Degree in Computer Science Cybersecurity or equivalent leadership experience in a high-growth technology environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing distributed teams in a global follow-the-sun model.
• Relevant industry certifications such as CISSP CISM or CISA.
• Familiarity with Cloudflares architecture including Edge computing and Serverless environments.
  
  

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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