Manager, Threat Detection and Incident Response

Contentful is seeking a Manager, Threat Detection and Incident Response to lead its security engineering team. The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of progressive engineering and security experience, 3+ years of managing people and security engineering teams, and expertise in AWS, GCP, and Azure. The role requires balancing people leadership with hands-on technical execution, designing, building, and operating security controls and tooling at scale, and providing strategic guidance and lead initiatives while remaining directly involved in implementation.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive engineering and security experience
• 3+ years of managing people and security engineering teams
• Expertise with AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Strong hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating security controls at scale
• Demonstrated experience securing endpoint, SaaS, and cloud environments
• Experience working within identity and access management and data security programs
• Software development experience in modern programming language (Python, Go, etc)
• Hands-on experience using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code
• Experience applying modern practices to improve efficiency and scalability or security programs
• Passion for solving complex security problems in innovative and scalable ways
• Experience using metrics to measure impact, optimize execution, and guide investment decisions
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical topics to non technical audiences
• Ability to support occasional off-hours incident response efforts
• Familiarity with attacker techniques in cloud-native and traditional environments
• Hands-on experience owning security technologies (e.g., EDR, AntiVirus, etc)
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence outcomes without direct authority
• Experience owning end to end security programs, proactively driving incremental improvement
• Strong systems thinking, with the ability to design security solutions that scale through efficiency

Benefits

• Stock Options
• Comprehensive healthcare package covering 100% of monthly health premiums for employees and 85% of costs for dependents
• Fertility and family building benefits
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Company paid parental leave
• Annual education budget
• Wellbeing stipend
• Communication stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement
• New hire office equipment stipend