# Security Engineering Team Lead at Cyera

- Company: Cyera
- What the company does: Cyera is an AI-native data security platform that helps enterprises discover, classify, govern, and protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-prem, and AI environments. Backed by Accel, Lightspeed and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.cyera.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, NY, United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $150K to $225K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-17
- Apply by: 2026-12-01
- Apply: https://www.comeet.com/jobs/cyera/17.008/security-engineering-team-lead/82.471?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cyera-security-engineering-team-lead/

## About the role

Join our team as the Security Engineering Team Lead. You will lead the engineers who build the platforms our security program runs on, set technical direction, and own the architecture and roadmap for log pipelines and SIEM, detection and automation, AWS security, SaaS security, AI security, and security tooling. You will partner closely with the Security Operations Team Lead so that what operations needs is what engineering builds. This is a player-coach role: you lead the team and stay hands-on. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Experience: 5 or more years in security engineering, cloud security, or detection engineering, including senior or lead-level work
- Leadership: Experience leading, mentoring, or managing engineers
- AI-Assisted Workflows: Hands-on experience building LLM-based or agent-based workflows and the tooling around them, and using AI-assisted development as a normal part of engineering
- Architecture: Experience owning the design of security platforms at scale: log pipelines, detection frameworks, cloud security controls
- AWS Depth: Deep knowledge of AWS security architecture, IAM, organizations and guardrails, and security services
- AWS Certification: AWS Security Specialty or Solutions Architect Associate, or equivalent demonstrated depth

Tags: Security

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