Chan Zuckerberg Initiative · 10 hours ago
Senior Technical Program Manager, Product Security
Redwood City, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$190K/yr - $262K/yr
5+ years expThe Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is focused on addressing some of society's toughest challenges through technology and grantmaking. They are seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager with expertise in Application Security to enhance product and application security, ensuring the scalability and security of technology solutions that support their mission.
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Responsibilities
Conceive, design, develop, and improve industry-leading security tooling, automation, architecture, and/or frameworks that enable enterprise teams at scale to deliver applications and services with appropriate security controls to meet evolving requirements for security and privacy
Identify and eliminate classes of security problems by shifting detection and prevention left into the development workflow
Provide just-in-time, actionable, technical security guidance to enterprise application and service teams
Ensure prioritization, resourcing, and timely delivery of work within a changing business environment
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure security work is being prioritized and addressed
Drive end-to-end execution of technical security projects, including requirements gathering, scoping, status updates, and delivery milestones
Establish and report metrics to track compliance, program health, and ongoing risk posture
Coordinate with third-party vendors and auditors to augment internal security capabilities
Serve as a subject matter expert on infrastructure, architecture, and application security, offering guidance to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Support security reviews, threat modeling, and incident response efforts for applications and production infrastructure
Qualification
Required
5+ years of technical program management or equivalent experience, with a specific focus on security or application security
Demonstrated proficiency with secure SDLC processes and best practices for integrating security throughout the software development lifecycle
Hands-on experience designing and managing security controls within CI/CD pipelines, using automation frameworks to enable secure code delivery and rapid remediation
Familiarity with threat modeling, static and dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST), and software composition analysis (SCA) tools
Deep understanding of DevSecOps principles, security automation, and infrastructure-as-code security
Experience driving the adoption of vulnerability management, architectural best practices, and incident response for cloud-native and distributed applications
Knowledge of container security (Docker, Kubernetes), microservices architectures, and cloud platform security (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Experience leading end-to-end security architecture design and governance across complex, cloud-native, and hybrid enterprise environments, aligning security capabilities to business and risk objectives
Proven ability to define and maintain reference architectures, security patterns, and control standards spanning network, identity, data protection, and application security domains
Skilled in conducting architecture risk assessments and design reviews, ensuring new and existing solutions meet zero trust, defense-in-depth, and compliance requirements in regulated industries
Benefits
Provides a generous employer match on employee 401(k) contributions to support planning for the future.
Paid time off to volunteer at an organization of your choice.
Funding for select family-forming benefits.
Relocation support for employees who need assistance moving
Company
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative supports community-driven solutions to accelerate progress in science, education, and justice.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Priscilla Chan
Co-CEO
Alex Rives
Head of Science
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