Security Engineering Lead

Build, lead, and scale the security engineering capability of one of Australia's fastest-growing tech companies.

Company

We are partnering with a fast-scaling tech company who are expanding globally and uplifting their cyber capability. They are now entering the next phase of growth - expanding globally, embracing AI, and scaling a modern tech platform used by millions.

If you're looking for a place where you can move fast, work with cutting-edge technology, and shape the future of security in a scaling product environment, you'll want to explore this.

The Opportunity

As
Security Engineering Lead
, you'll play a pivotal role in building and managing our global security engineering program. You'll lead a talented security engineering team, strengthen product and cloud security capabilities, and driving software security initiatives.

This role is perfect for someone who thrives in fast-paced, automation-first environments - a technical leader who loves mentoring and empowering engineers, getting hands-on when needed, and embedding security into cutting-edge tech.

What You'll Do

• Lead and mentor a growing global team of security engineers, creating a positive, high-performance culture.
• Own and evolve the roadmap for security engineering, driving improvements in the overall security posture.
• Champion secure-by-design, working directly with engineering teams to integrate security early in development.
• Oversee incident readiness and response, ensuring the business can effectively manage and learn from security events.
• Drive initiatives across emerging technology and supply chain security - from software dependencies to AI-related risks.

What You Bring

• 5+ years' security engineering experince.
• Hands-on expertise in Security operations / detection engineering, or application/product security.
• Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers and helping others grow.
• Ideally experience in a
  scale-up, start-up, or product-led tech company.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures and modern engineering practices (GCP preferred, or AWS).
• Excellent communicator - able to influence, educate, and collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.

Location: Sydney (relocation support available) - Hybrid working flexibility.

Why You'll Love It Here

• International Travel:
  You'll get the chance to travel overseas and build global teams.
• Impact:
  You'll help shape security at a company that's scaling globally and embracing AI innovation.
• Growth:
  Build and lead your own team - with room to scale globally.
• Culture:
  Work with curious, generous people who value learning and collaboration.
• Compensation:
  Competitive salary +
  stock options (real $ value here).
• Learning:
  Annual professional development budget, for you and your team.

You'll love this role if you're a builder - someone who's passionate about solving security problems in creative ways, mentoring others, and embedding security into products that millions of people use.

If you've ever felt held back by red tape or wanted to make a bigger impact, this is your chance to lead security in a fast-moving, collaborative environment where great ideas actually ship.

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Decipher Bureau and the clients we partner with are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be equal-opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.