Director of Security Operations

About the Position

Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. We are seeking a highly analytical, systems-oriented Director of Security Operations to drive the planning, forecasting, deployment, and optimization of hardware infrastructure across our global cloud storage platform.

Responsibilities

• Lead security monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, security analytics, vulnerability management, adversary emulation, identity security, and operational resilience.
• Establish operational priorities, service objectives, metrics, playbooks, and processes based on organizational risk and business needs.
• Serve as incident commander for significant cybersecurity events and ensure lessons learned drive improvements to controls and operations.
• Drive responsible adoption of AI-assisted detection, investigation, vulnerability analysis, threat hunting, and response capabilities.
• Ensure effective security monitoring and response for AI applications, autonomous agents, workloads, and non-human identities.
• Use automation to reduce manual work and compress detection, analysis, containment, and remediation timelines.
• Partner with Security Architecture & Engineering to ensure controls are effectively designed, implemented, operationalized, monitored, and validated.
• Develop security talent and provide the CISO with clear reporting on incidents, exposure, operational performance, risk, and program maturity.

Requirements

• Experience leading Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Vulnerability Management, IAM, or related cybersecurity functions.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience implementing and operating security controls across cloud, infrastructure, applications, identity, endpoints, and networks.
• Strong technical understanding of security analytics, detection engineering, exposure management, adversary emulation, and identity security.
• Experience leading significant cybersecurity incidents and cross-functional response activities.
• Experience implementing security automation and AI-assisted operational capabilities.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, communication, and executive presentation skills.
• Experience in cloud-native or large-scale distributed environments and familiarity with modern cybersecurity and AI-risk frameworks is preferred.

We Offer

• Healthcare for family, including dental and vision
• Competitive compensation and 401K
• RSU grants for full-time employees
• ESPP program
• Flexible vacation policy
• Maternity & paternity leave
• MacBook Pro to use for work plus a generous stipend to personalize your workstation
• Childcare bonus (human children only)
• Fertility treatment and support
• Learning & development program
• Commuter benefits
• Culture that supports a healthy work-life balance

About the Company

Backblaze is the leading specialized storage cloud, managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, ability, veteran status, and education. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Salary

The base pay range for this position is $205,000 - $230,000 USD.

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