Lead Security Engineer

About TigerData: TigerData is a fast-growing company providing the fastest PostgreSQL platform for modern workloads. We serve thousands of customers globally and are committed to innovation and collaboration.

About The Role: We’re scaling our engineering organization and maturing our security practices to support the demands of a growing customer base. We’re looking for a pragmatic, delivery-oriented Security Engineering Lead to embed secure development practices across our engineering teams and lead the execution of key AppSec initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with engineering teams to embed security best practices into our SDLC.
• Lead the creation and execution of our AppSec roadmap.
• Drive adoption of security tooling and automation in CI/CD pipelines.
• Influence secure design decisions across engineering.
• Collaborate with the Cloud Platform team to ensure secure-by-default infrastructure configurations.
• Own key security concerns related to Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Contribute to incident response playbooks and participate in postmortems.

Requirements:

• 5+ years in security engineering or software engineering with a strong application security focus.
• Experience working with development teams in high-growth or cloud-native environments.
• Strong experience with securing Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to lead without direct authority.
• Strong practical understanding of web app and API security.

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with threat modeling tools and frameworks.
• Exposure to compliance frameworks like SOC 2.
• Familiarity with Go, Rust, or C.

What We Offer:

• Flexible PTO and comprehensive family leave
• Fully remote opportunities
• Stock options
• Professional development and educational resources