Top Cyber Security Jobs in San Diego, CA

Leads the technical strategy, architecture, development, and operation of SnapIAM, Snap’s centralized identity and access management platform. Designs cloud access controls, workload identities, access governance, and least-privilege systems; leads migrations and multi-team initiatives; establishes engineering standards; contributes production code; and mentors engineers. Partners with infrastructure, engineering, and security teams to improve reliability, adoption, developer productivity, and secure access management across cloud environments.

Designs security architectures for system-on-chip products, including root of trust, secure boot, key management, confidential computing, authentication, encryption, secure manufacturing, and device lifecycle management. Responsibilities include threat modeling, cryptographic and hardware/software security analysis, access control design, secure privilege management, isolation, attestation, and recovery mechanisms. The role also contributes to technology roadmaps and leads multinational security teams.

Lead product security incident response for post-release vulnerabilities, including deep-dive investigations, exploit analysis, remediation coordination, CVE assignment and disclosure, advisory review, and incident leadership. Partner with engineering, product, release, customer-facing, and external security teams to reduce exposure windows, verify fixes, conduct postmortems, and improve secure development processes and PSIRT capabilities.

Architects and operates enterprise outbound security services for a multi-tenant SaaS platform. Responsibilities include egress filtering, proxying, SSRF protection, exfiltration prevention, Kubernetes operations, threat modeling, incident response, compliance, and evaluating AI/ML for anomaly detection and risk scoring. The role also mentors engineers and advances secure connectivity, TLS, and post-quantum readiness.

Leads Motive’s global security compliance, privacy, risk, audit, customer trust, and AI governance functions. Builds integrated controls across ISO, SOC, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, GDPR, and related frameworks; manages audits, privacy operations, international regulatory readiness, customer security reviews, policies, training, and human risk. The role also establishes AI-first automation, AI governance, and a path to FedRAMP while leading a distributed team and partnering across Legal, Engineering, Product, IT, Finance, Sales, and Customer Success.

Delivers virtual and occasional onsite cloud security training covering Falcon Cloud Security, CNAPP, CSPM, CWPP, containers, and incident response. Develops curricula, certification exams, and hands-on labs; maintains expertise in cloud threats and CrowdStrike products; and supports broader endpoint, identity, logging, and SIEM topics. Requires strong technical education, cloud security, communication, project management, AI technology, and occasional travel experience.

Build and refine security detections, logging, telemetry, SIEM pipelines, and incident response capabilities across cloud, corporate, and SaaS environments. Conduct threat hunting, threat modeling, alert triage, and response engineering. Develop automation and AI-assisted security tooling, maintain runbooks and documentation, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with engineering and business teams on security initiatives.

Build and operate central security systems, automation, tooling, and controls across cloud infrastructure, identity, access, products, partners, and vendors. Develop AI-assisted security workflows, lead external assessments through verified remediation, identify and validate vulnerabilities, guide engineering teams, and participate in incident response. The role requires production security engineering experience, strong programming skills, cloud security expertise, and fintech, payments, or crypto experience.

Conduct application security assessments, threat modeling, code reviews, and manual penetration testing across web applications, APIs, cloud services, appliances, and AI-enabled features. Coordinate external penetration tests, validate vulnerabilities, track remediation, and verify fixes. Improve SAST, SCA, secrets detection, container scanning, SBOM, supply-chain, and CI/CD security workflows while advising Engineering on secure design and risk prioritization.

Lead security architecture and design reviews, define standards for protecting sensitive healthcare data, build automated defenses, improve monitoring and incident response, redirect technical strategy, translate complex security objectives into engineering requirements, and mentor engineers through rigorous code and design reviews.

Leads a multi-team organization building AI-driven cybersecurity systems for endpoint and cloud environments. Owns technical strategy, roadmap, hiring, delivery, evaluation, and safe production deployment of AI models and autonomous defense agents. Oversees systems operating under strict endpoint resource limits and at cloud scale across trillions of events. Partners with engineering, product, threat intelligence, and executives while advancing security efficacy, reliability, and responsible AI adoption.

Lead global security investigations and incident response, serving as incident commander for major events and guiding containment, remediation, recovery, and postmortems. Manage and develop a technical response team, establish readiness practices, improve security tooling and telemetry, and drive detection and automation enhancements. Translate incident metrics and business impact into executive and board-level reporting while developing AI-enabled investigation workflows with appropriate safeguards.

Leads vulnerability intelligence research focused on rapidly analyzing and exploiting newly disclosed or actively exploited vulnerabilities. Develops Metasploit modules and framework improvements, conducts zero-day research, publishes technical analyses, advises detection teams, supports emergent threat response, presents research publicly, and mentors other researchers. The role requires advanced exploitation, reverse engineering, operating system, networking, and exploit mitigation expertise, plus cross-functional communication during time-sensitive security events.

Leads consulting, presales, architecture, and delivery oversight for ServiceNow Security and Risk solutions. Designs integrations and governance workflows, advises executive stakeholders, develops implementation roadmaps and service offerings, supports solution scoping, mentors delivery teams and partners, and promotes best practices across regulated enterprise customers. The role requires deep ServiceNow Security and Risk expertise, strong consulting and communication skills, and up to 20% annual travel.

Designs and develops IAM and security software, automation, APIs, and microservices. Integrates security into cloud and CI/CD environments, conducts code reviews and threat modeling, monitors security events, supports incident response, and advises teams on identity architecture and best practices. Requires extensive IAM administration, programming, cloud, containerization, and secure-coding experience.

Own application security for Generative AI and emerging products by integrating secure development practices, conducting design and code reviews, threat modeling systems, assessing vendors and AI tools, triaging vulnerabilities, and building security automation. The role partners with engineering and detection teams, contributes to cloud and infrastructure security, participates in incident response and on-call rotations, and documents post-incident remediation.

Own internal offensive security assessments across applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and corporate systems. Plan and execute penetration tests, validate vulnerabilities safely, review source code, and partner with engineering teams through remediation and retesting. Build automated security testing tools and workflows, lead adoption of AI-assisted offensive security capabilities, support third-party testing, improve detection and incident response, and participate in on-call responsibilities.

Partner with product and engineering teams to embed security throughout the product lifecycle. Conduct threat modeling, architecture reviews, source-code security analysis, vulnerability identification, and secure test development. Advise on authentication, compliance, and business security requirements; automate security processes; identify emerging vulnerabilities; and coordinate cross-team projects through completion.

Advise enterprise customers on ServiceNow Security and Armis architecture, integrations, adoption, and optimization. Lead technical engagements, resolve complex challenges, assess performance and data quality, develop solution roadmaps, manage escalations, and improve security outcomes. Create reusable playbooks and enablement content, mentor technical teams, influence product and engineering roadmaps, and guide customers on CMDB, CSDM, governance, integrations, security protocols, and platform scalability.

Develop application security policies and integrate security scanning tools into CI/CD pipelines. Review findings, partner with developers to remediate vulnerabilities, perform threat modeling, and validate secure-by-default architectures and coding standards. The role also involves software analysis, secure coding, cryptography, DevSecOps practices, and collaboration across engineering teams.

Leads technical pre-sales architecture for complex security solutions serving public-sector and commercial customers. Translates business, security, compliance, and technical requirements into solution designs, bills of materials, statements of work, estimates, pricing, assessments, and deployment plans. Conducts discovery sessions, architecture workshops, solution reviews, and customer presentations while partnering with sales, delivery teams, and security vendors. Mentors architects and sellers, supports regional customer activity, and travels throughout the Southeast as needed.

Architect and build production AI security systems spanning endpoint sensors and cloud-scale infrastructure. Lead autonomous cyber defense capabilities, including detection, threat hunting, response, adversary simulation, secure agent execution, and model evaluation. Establish technical direction, benchmarks, and safety practices while mentoring senior engineers and researchers. Carry frontier AI research into the Falcon platform and represent the company through publications, open source, standards, and industry collaboration.

Secure CrowdStrike’s software supply chain and code-hosting environments by assessing GitHub organizations, open-source integrations, repositories, dependencies, and third-party packages. Implement repository guardrails, secret scanning, access controls, and automation; investigate supply-chain threats such as typosquatting and dependency confusion; promote secure coding and open-source compliance; and collaborate with engineering teams on security initiatives.

Build production security tooling and infrastructure using Terraform, Bash, Go, and Python. Partner with product engineers to design secure features, review Terraform and IAM configurations, automate security workflows, and advise teams on pragmatic vulnerability remediation. The role emphasizes developer enablement, scalable security libraries and tools, cloud security, containerization, and responsible AI use.

Secure Zapier’s production infrastructure by identifying and mitigating risks, hardening cloud environments, improving Terraform and CI/CD security, managing vulnerability and misconfiguration tools, enforcing least-privilege access, strengthening data governance, hardening Kubernetes images, and supporting incident response. The role collaborates with Platform, Engineering, and Security teams in a remote-first environment.