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About The Role

Do you enjoy fixing product vulnerabilities? We're looking for a Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) manager to lead a hardworking team of PSIRT engineers tasked with raising the security bar of Splunk through vulnerability discovery, disclosure, and mitigation as we continue to innovate on our products.

This role presents the challenge of building and running a team with high visibility throughout Splunk, and the opportunity to mentor and grow a group of highly skilled security engineers. As the leader of the team, you will be responsible for ensuring that Splunk is aware of the risks across the products organization. You will be guiding the team to focus on the systems, services, and processes that protect Splunk's most valuable resources, and communicate with leadership, legal and software development teams.

You'll be part of an organization focused on influencing security culture within Splunk and Cisco with the ultimate goal of ensuring the continued security of our customers and their data. You will do this by leading bug bounty, responsible disclosure, and escalations from Splunk’s top customers.

As a manager at Splunk, your primary role is to help your team reach its maximum potential through mentorship, staying engaged with our current projects, participating in campaign design and technical decisions, and helping the team overcome any challenges that we encounter!

What you'll get to do:

Responsible for all people management activities related to PSIRT including hiring and performance management
Lead a team of PSIRT engineers accountable for Security Advisories, Bug Bounty, Responsible Disclosure, incident management, and customer escalations
Develop and implement a long-term roadmap for PSIRT in partnership with our senior team members.
Building team policies, procedures, and processes to manage all aspects of PSIRT for Splunk products.
Partner closely with senior leadership to remediate the most critical vulnerabilities impacting Splunk and its customers.

Must-have Qualifications

BS in CS/EE or equivalent
3+ years of experience managing a PSIRT, product security, penetration testing or application security team.
7+ years of overall experience in cybersecurity or similar field
Past experience with security advisories, incident response, bug bounty, and responsible disclosure.
Proven experience communicating risks to, and partnering with different levels of product organizations.
Have experience leading globally distributed teams on multiple concurrent projects.

Nice-to-have Qualifications

We’ve taken special care to separate the must-have qualifications from the nice-to-haves. “Nice-to-have” means just that: Nice. To. Have. So, don’t worry if you can’t check off every box. We’re not hiring a list of bullet points–we’re interested in the whole you.

Prior experience as a PSIRT manager within the software industry.
Experience contributing to the security community (public research, blogging, presentations, etc.)

Splunk is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Splunk, we believe creating a culture of belonging isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s also the smart thing. We prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to ensure our employees are supported to bring their best, most authentic selves to work where they can thrive. Qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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Base Pay Range

SF Bay Area, Seattle Metro, and New York City Metro Area

Base Pay Range: $181,200.00 - 249,150.00 per year

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Washington (excludes Seattle Metro), Washington DC Metro, and Massachusetts

Base Pay Range: $163,080.00 - 224,235.00 per year

All other cities and states excluding California, Washington, Massachusetts, New York City Metro Area and Washington DC Metro Area.

Base Pay Range: $144,960.00 - 199,320.00 per year

Splunk provides flexibility and choice in the working arrangement for most roles, including remote and/or in-office roles. We have a market-based pay structure which varies by location. Please note that the base pay range is a guideline and for candidates who receive an offer, the base pay will vary based on factors such as work location as set out above, as well as the knowledge, skills and experience of the candidate. In addition to base pay, this role is eligible for incentive compensation and may be eligible for equity or long-term cash awards.

Benefits are an important part of Splunk's Total Rewards package. This role is eligible for a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off and much more! Learn more about our comprehensive benefits and wellbeing offering at https://splunkbenefits.com.

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