- Company Name
- Discord
- Job Title
- Director of Engineering, Security Operations
- Job Description
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Job Title: Director of Security Operations (Engineering)
Role Summary
Lead Discord’s security operations across Detection & Response, IT Security, Identity & Access Management, and Cyber Threat Intelligence. Define strategy, build teams, and drive engineering excellence while maintaining alignment with product, infrastructure, and executive goals.
Expectations
- Operate autonomously with minimal direction
- Deliver measurable results in a high‑stakes environment
- Serve as a succession candidate for greater organizational responsibility
Key Responsibilities
- Own and evolve a unified security operations strategy spanning all four domains.
- Mature the Cyber Threat Intelligence program: build team, establish collection/production processes, and embed intelligence in operations and business decisions.
- Develop and enforce IAM strategy for corporate, cloud, and infrastructure systems.
- Align security priorities with engineering, IT, legal, and executive leadership.
- Own outcomes, define success metrics, and report to senior leadership.
- Maintain technical depth to evaluate proposals, review detection logic, conduct incident forensics, audit IAM, and prototype solutions.
- Drive automation, reliability, and scalability of security tooling.
- Build, mentor, and scale a high‑performing cross‑functional security organization; manage hiring, retention, performance, and succession planning.
- Establish operational rhythms, cross‑team rituals, and shared practices.
- Partner with security engineering to integrate product and infrastructure security.
- Communicate risks, incidents, and threat intelligence to leadership in business context; act as escalation point during crises.
- Represent security operations externally as needed.
Required Skills
- 10+ years in security operations or related fields; 5+ in leadership.
- Deep knowledge of detection & response, IAM, IT security, and threat intelligence.
- Technical proficiency: reading code, scripting, incident forensics, IAM configuration.
- Proven ability to build and scale security teams, mentor managers, and develop succession plans.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking; quantitative outcome orientation.
- Excellent communication with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
- Crisis management experience and executive‑level reporting.
Required Education & Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or equivalent (or higher).
- Preferred certifications: CISSP, CISM, CDP, or equivalent in security operations, threat intelligence, or IAM.
San francisco bay, United states
On site
18-02-2026