Director of Security Operations and Engineering - EDB

About EDB

EDB provides a data and AI platform that enables organizations to harness the full power of Postgres for transactional, analytical, and AI workloads across any cloud, anywhere. EDB empowers enterprises to control risk, manage costs and scale efficiently for a data and AI led world. Serving more than 1,500 customers globally and as the leading contributor to the vibrant and fast-growing PostgreSQL community, EDB supports major government organizations, financial services, media and information technology companies. EDB’s data-driven solutions enable customers to modernize legacy systems and break data silos while leveraging enterprise-grade open source technologies.

The Role

You'll lead Security Operations and Security Engineering at EDB, reporting to the CISO as a trusted member of the security leadership team. You own how we detect, respond, and (increasingly) prevent. That means the people, the platforms, and the playbooks behind threat detection, incident response, and the engineering that makes them scale.

You'll be a peer to the leaders across security, including Governance, Risk & Compliance and Application Security & Vulnerability Management, and you'll help shape the direction of the broader InfoSec organization. You'll also partner closely with peer leaders in IT and Product, because most of the controls we define live in their systems, pipelines, and roadmaps. This is a scaling role. The business is growing fast, and so is everything security has to cover: more products, more cloud, more acquired companies and environments to bring up to a common standard. You'll decide what to build, what to automate, and where to add people, so the program grows ahead of the risk instead of behind it.

One leader owns both Security Operations and Security Engineering on purpose: the best incident is the one that never happens. What we learn from detection and response feeds directly into the engineering of preventive controls, so we move from detecting bad things to making them impossible, and from manual triage to automation and agents that give analysts leverage.

What Your Impact Will Be

• Incident Response: End-to-end management, from intake and severity model through after-action and improvement, including partnership with Legal on investigations.
• Detection Engineering: Overseeing threat hunting, and the SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and cloud security platforms that support them.
• Security Engineering Strategy: Delivering preventive controls, least privilege, and identity assurance across employees, contractors, and build systems.
• Insider Threat Program: Building and maintaining the program in collaboration with HR, Legal, and IT.
• Automation & AI: Implementing automation and agentic AI that extends analyst capacity (while keeping the analyst in control of decisions).
• M&A Integration: Leading the security integration of acquired companies and new environments into EDB's standards.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborating with IT and Product leadership to build preventive controls into platforms, pipelines, and products, alongside security input to third-party risk and device posture with GRC.
• Scaling the Program: Designing the organizational structure, operating rhythms, roadmap, budget, and vendor strategy to scale coverage efficiently.

What You Will Bring

• 5+ years of management experience leading security teams.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in security operations, incident response, detection, or security engineering.
• A proven track record of scaling a security function through rapid growth (hiring, automation, and operating discipline), rather than just maintaining an existing one.
• Strategic thinking capabilities that extend beyond the immediate scope of the role.
• The ability to translate technical risk into clear business impact for executives, legal, customers, and IT/Product counterparts.
• Comfort working in a global, remote-first environment with flexible schedules and on-call responsibilities.

What Will Give You an Edge

• Hands-on scripting or automation experience (e.g., Python, Go).
• Experience applying AI or agent-based automation to security workflows.
• Cloud security experience and a background in M&A security integration.
• Experience building an insider threat or identity assurance program.