Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Leads regional enterprise security sales by serving as a cloud security expert, shaping opportunities, advising account teams, managing executive relationships, and orchestrating technical teams and partners. Conducts architecture reviews, demos, proof-of-concepts, pilots, ROI/TCO analyses, and consultative engagements to promote Microsoft security solutions, Zero Trust adoption, and customer business outcomes.

Lead product, cloud, application, infrastructure, and internal security across Hipp’s healthcare SaaS platform. Responsibilities include architecture reviews, threat modeling, vulnerability management, cloud and identity security, monitoring, incident response, AI-agent security, compliance controls, vendor risk, customer security reviews, and security mentorship.

Build ngrok’s foundational security engineering program, including security tooling, CI/CD guardrails, secrets scanning, vulnerability tracking, cloud security, risk assessments, AI security policies, detection capabilities, and incident response. Partner with engineering and leadership to establish security controls, automation, metrics, and reusable internal security platforms.

Lead the architecture, security, and operation of Maestro’s multi-tenant AI platform on private GKE. Responsibilities include Kubernetes runtime isolation, identity and credential security, service mesh trust, Terraform infrastructure, fleet scaling, CI/CD, observability, auditability, human approval workflows, and governed agent integrations. The role also sets technical direction, mentors engineers, and partners across Product, Security, and Leadership to deliver secure, reliable distributed systems at scale.

Own and improve security across cloud infrastructure, AI platforms, corporate IT, endpoints, identity, email, and business applications. Build detection and response capabilities, secure containers and software supply chains, implement identity and access controls, manage vulnerabilities and secrets, and automate security guardrails. Investigate threats across cloud, identity, and endpoint telemetry while protecting sensitive customer data and supporting compliance controls.

Build and operate enterprise AI infrastructure for security teams, including model gateways, agent workflows, retrieval systems, evaluation, observability, and security guardrails. Drive adoption across detection, incident response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, GRC, and security engineering. Develop production AI applications, establish governance and standards, measure impact, teach teams, and lead technical change through influence as a senior individual contributor.

Designs and reviews secure architectures for cloud, applications, data, APIs, identity systems, AI/ML implementations, and third-party integrations. Leads threat modeling, security standards, reference architectures, risk assessments, and compliance alignment across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. Protects traveler and payment data, defines AI and identity security guardrails, supports vendor due diligence, and advises engineering, product, and executive stakeholders on practical risk mitigation.

Owns the security posture and architecture of Akamai’s globally distributed AI inference platform. Leads threat modeling, security standards, design reviews, cloud-native and application security, multi-tenant isolation, compliance readiness, incident response, and defenses against AI-specific threats such as prompt injection, model extraction, data poisoning, and adversarial attacks.

Plans and executes full-scope red team and adversary emulation operations, including phishing, C2, privilege escalation, lateral movement, EDR/XDR evasion, Active Directory and cloud compromise, and social-engineering scenarios. Develops custom offensive tooling, collaborates with Blue Teams to validate detections, documents attack chains, and provides remediation guidance. Requires 5+ years of offensive security experience, advanced scripting skills, and recognized offensive security certifications, with bug bounty or CTF achievements preferred.

Lead cybersecurity consulting and engineering engagements securing OT and IT environments for water, wastewater, and environmental infrastructure clients. Conduct ICS, SCADA, network, architecture, risk, and compliance assessments; design secure IT/OT architectures; develop governance, incident response, security plans, and improvement roadmaps; evaluate security technologies; and support proposals and client presentations. Mentor junior staff and advise on cloud, IoT, AI, and critical infrastructure security.

Designs and operates security controls for AI/ML systems, including threat detection, incident response, cloud and application security, model governance, adversarial testing, and security automation. Builds production tooling across AI platforms such as SageMaker, Azure OpenAI, and Databricks; applies MITRE ATLAS, OWASP AI Top 10, and NIST AI RMF frameworks; and integrates enterprise security platforms to protect models, data, pipelines, and AI applications.

Leads technical security engagements involving presentations, demonstrations, workshops, architecture design, and production-ready pilots. Designs and proves Microsoft and third-party cloud security, compliance, privacy, XDR, zero trust, and data protection solutions. Collaborates with sales, consulting, and partner teams, resolves technical and competitive blockers, influences strategy, and guides customer implementations. The role requires strong technical pre-sales or consulting experience and expertise in cloud, hybrid, and on-premises infrastructure.

Design and ship product security improvements covering authentication, authorization, session and token handling, secrets management, third-party access, abuse detection, fraud prevention, and account takeover defense. Threat-model systems, remediate vulnerabilities, build secure developer tooling, and partner with Product, Engineering, and Trust & Safety. Mentor engineers and use AI-assisted development while balancing security controls with user experience.

Lead identity and access management implementations for federal and enterprise customers. Responsibilities include IAM solution design, architecture, deployment, integration, testing, troubleshooting, documentation, customer workshops, and knowledge transfer. The consultant provides technical leadership, advises stakeholders on authentication and identity governance, collaborates across project teams, and mentors junior consultants. The role requires extensive IAM consulting experience, strong security technology knowledge, active Top Secret clearance with full-scope polygraph, and customer-facing technical leadership.

Own infrastructure security for LiveKit’s production platform. Map cloud security posture, prioritize and remediate infrastructure risks, harden IAM, secrets, networks, tenant isolation, and media storage, and build secure infrastructure-as-code guardrails. Partner with compliance teams on PCI-DSS and ISO 27001 controls and automate audit evidence. The role requires cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, scripting, and production infrastructure security experience, with AI security and real-time media experience preferred.

Provides customer-facing cybersecurity expertise during presales engagements. Consults with CIOs, CISOs, security engineers, and procurement teams; educates sales teams; develops cybersecurity collateral, use cases, and service offerings; supports solution scoping and statements of work; and demonstrates security technologies including DLP, DSPM, DDR, and file encryption. The role requires strong cybersecurity knowledge, presales consulting experience, security framework familiarity, product expertise, and up to 20% travel.

Provides customer-facing presales cybersecurity expertise focused on OT and IoT environments. Advises executives, security teams, and procurement stakeholders; develops security services, sales collateral, use cases, system and network diagrams, and lab demonstrations. Educates sales teams, stays current on security technologies and trends, and supports consultative solution engagements involving industrial protocols, asset visibility, traffic analysis, segmentation, cloud security, and security frameworks.

Owns and strengthens the security posture of cloud-based SaaS and Microsoft 365 environments. Responsibilities include vulnerability management, incident response, cloud and endpoint hardening, identity and data protection, secure configuration, monitoring, compliance evidence, customer security reviews, and risk management aligned with HITRUST, HIPAA, NIST, and related frameworks.

Designs, implements, configures, and supports enterprise cybersecurity solutions across IAM, endpoint, network, email, application, cloud, and security awareness domains. Conducts vulnerability assessments, threat hunting, incident investigation, security tool tuning, policy development, and security architecture reviews. Serves as a security subject matter expert on technology projects, collaborates with an MSSP, provides incident escalation support, and maintains availability for critical security operations.

Designs and implements scalable trust and identity infrastructure, including secrets management, PKI, authentication, and access control services. The role defines architecture, leads technically complex initiatives, improves engineering standards and reliability, and partners across Product, Security, Compliance, and Engineering. It requires strong systems engineering experience with Linux, networking, distributed systems, modern programming languages, and infrastructure tooling. Occasional on-call nights and weekends may be required.

Leads architecture and implementation of Microsoft Red Team visibility, telemetry, monitoring, detection, alerting, deconfliction, and operational security capabilities. Designs scalable services and data pipelines, maintains authoritative operational asset inventories, identifies systemic security gaps, and drives durable engineering solutions. Provides hands-on technical leadership, architecture reviews, debugging, incident response, mentorship, and cross-organizational influence while enabling authentic Red Team operations with strong defensive visibility and control.

Leads end-to-end development of security data pipelines, APIs, services, and endpoint protection platforms. Architects scalable, reliable, and hardened cloud security infrastructure; creates design documentation, monitoring, alerting, and vulnerability defenses. Collaborates with security, infrastructure, and engineering teams, supports on-call operations, mentors engineers, and communicates technical strategies to executives and customers. The role also develops automated systems for threat intelligence, security reporting, and intrusion prevention across public and private cloud environments.

Engineer and maintain enterprise network security platforms across on-premises and cloud environments. Design firewall and network security solutions, troubleshoot complex connectivity and security issues, and automate infrastructure operations using scripting, APIs, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, and CI/CD pipelines. Support platform upgrades, vulnerability remediation, monitoring integrations, validation processes, and modernization initiatives while collaborating with network, cloud, application, and security teams.

Build and scale platform security through architecture reviews, threat modeling, IaC hardening, IAM improvements, Kubernetes security, and disaster recovery exercises. Develop automation for detection, response, compliance, onboarding, access anomaly detection, and self-service security posture checks. Investigate incidents, track root-cause remediation, support SOC 2 evidence collection, and collaborate closely with software engineers on secure development and incident response.

Conduct penetration tests across infrastructure, networks, web and mobile applications, and cloud environments. Perform application and cloud security testing, simulate adversary techniques, develop custom security tools, document vulnerabilities, validate remediation, and support HIPAA, SOC 2, and PCI DSS compliance. Collaborate with engineering and product teams, track emerging threats, and contribute to purple-team exercises, tabletop events, and security training.