Security Engineer, Level V, Production Security
Snap Inc.
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This role pays more than 99% of similar roles. Most pay $152,150–$216,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $314k versus about $184k for comparable roles.
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Snap Inc. is a technology and camera company, best known for Snapchat, offering visual communication, augmented reality, and advertising products.
Snap Inc. currently has 66 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $209,000–$313,000 across 57 roles with salary data.
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Manager, Security Engineering, Production Security leads the Production Security team to protect infrastructure and data. This role involves hardening production environments across AWS and Google Cloud while building perimeter defenses, workload identity, and deployment controls for thousands of services. The manager establishes multi-year technical strategies for cloud organization hardening, CI/CD security, and secrets management. Day-to-day responsibilities include managing service reliability, overseeing vulnerability remediation, conducting security reviews of backend systems, and influencing the secure adoption of LLMs and AI tools. Key technical requirements include proficiency in Kubernetes, container technologies, service mesh tools like Istio or Envoy, and Linux internals. Candidates must possess development skills in Go, Python, or Java to evaluate designs. The role focuses on implementing zero-trust principles and defense-in-depth strategies within a large, heterogeneous production environment to ensure security is the default path for developers.
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