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Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve-including our employees, customers, shareholders, partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions.\nThe ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us!\nWhat you will do\nSolarWinds is looking for a Director of Product Security to build and lead a new, AI-first product security team for our SaaS portfolio: SolarWinds Observability, SolarWinds Service Desk, SolarWinds Incident Response, Pingdom, Loggly, Papertrail and Database Performance Monitor. The team owns security from incident response through prevention. That covers how security findings are triaged and routed, SaaS security incident command, software supply chain and build integrity, application, AI and cloud security standards, and the engineering evidence behind our SOC 2 and FedRAMP programs.\nThis team is AI-first. Its engineers build the agents that do the routine work, such as triaging findings, opening fixes, reviewing code and collecting audit evidence, and they make the judgment calls themselves.\nBuild and lead a team of security engineers across the US, Europe and India, starting with the first set of hires and growing it based on measured results.\nSet the product security strategy and standards for our SaaS products, and co-chair the Product Security Council with engineering leadership.\nOwn SaaS security incident command, working with the CISO organization.\nOwn how security findings are triaged and routed to the teams that fix them, and publish a monthly report on critical and high risk across the portfolio.\nLead the team's AI-first operating model: a budgeted set of security agents the team builds, measured by cost per outcome and by how often they miss real issues.\nOwn software supply chain and build integrity standards across the portfolio for SaaS products.\nAgree clear boundaries and shared programs with the CISO organization to avoid duplicating its work.\nGet the most out of the security tools already selected, set requirements for them, and take part in tool consolidation or new tool decisions.\nWork with SRE and product teams to move SOC 2 and FedRAMP evidence collection from manual work to automation.\nOwn the team's hiring plan, budget and token budget, and report progress to engineering leadership.\nRequired Qualifications\n12+ years in security engineering, including 5+ years leading security engineering teams.\nHands-on experience as a security engineer before moving into leadership.\nExperience leading product or application security for multi-tenant SaaS on AWS and Kubernetes. 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