Engineering Manager Security Squad

About BlaBlaCar

BlaBlaCar is the worlds leading community-based travel app enabling 27 million members a year to carpool or travel by bus in 21 countries. Our team of 800 employees counts over 50 nationalities and is spread across our 5 global offices 30% working fully remotely.

By joining our Corporate Services department you will be working alongside talented individuals grouped in small agile teams that each have strong ownership on their stack and goals.

Corporate Services is composed of six teams which Provide tools services and expertise that enable BlaBlaCar internal teams to fulfill their mission with efficiency productivity and comfort..

The Security Team has three main objectives driving the security team roadmap:

• Reduce BlaBlaCar risk exposure by defining and implementing a strategy to identify report and tackle the most critical risks

• Implement a shift-left strategy and autonomy within the teams via training guidelines and tooling

• Detect investigate and respond to security incidents

By design the role requires a global vision of BBC perimeter risks and regulation. You will have to ensure that the security practices and security frameworks are well implemented across our various business lines or locations. To accomplish the security mission some of the processes / framework are directly operated by the security team while others are delegated within the organization.

To fulfill the mission you will be working with several stakeholders :

• The Legal teamespecially the DPO team as a daily partner

• The IT Ops team to deploy security tools and best practices to all employees and contractors

• The Product & Engineering teams working with each service and infrastructure teams to ensure our product and our users data are secure and protected.

Your Responsibilities

In cooperation with your manager CISO & Head of corporate Services and your team:

• Plan and implement comprehensive risk-driven security strategies

• Manage the security team (4 Individual Contributors) and the associated cost center (security tools contract management and financial follow up)

• Ensure a strong coordination with department managers to determine security needs and ensure security strategy is well understood and implemented

• Ensure processes within the company and with external stakeholders are robust and properly followed

• Define a middle to long-term Security strategy which would fit with BBC values. A key aspect would be to preserve secure processes within an international context

• Ensure compliance with company policies and security industry regulations or recommendations

Your Qualifications

• Experience in risk management auditing internal processes and tools

• Proven track record of team management and leadership skills

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills ability to explain complex security subjects to non-technical people

• Global and broad knowledge in security on main attacks vectors and associated defense strategies

• Knowledge on security/privacy regulations and standards (GDPR PCI DSS)

• Relevant experience in a company operating large-scale production systems and web services / relevant experience in Security Audits for consulting firms

• Optional : Advanced ability to coordinate responses to security breaches and threats

Technical stack

• Security tooling : SentinelOne Splunk OneLogin Wiz Datadome Sysdig

• IT environment: Windows MacOS and Chromebook with a BeyondCorp- inspired vision

• Core Infrastructure: Kubernetes Google Cloud Platform Istio

• Languages: Go for Infra/Tooling Java and PHP for backend services. Go for the custom security tooling.

• GitOps/Delivery: GitHub Terraform Flux Helm Jenkins

• Datastores: MariaDB PostgreSQL Kafka

• Observability: Datadog Grafana

What we have to offer

• Hybrid position : 2 days at the office per week

• 50% healthcare coverage (Alan)

• 4 additional weeks on top of legal maternity/paternity leaves

• Financial support for home office equipment

• Minimum 25 days holiday per year

• Local meal plan policy (Swile card)

• 50% transportation paid (Forfait Mobilité Durable)

• Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides

• Personal growth via trainings mentorship and internal mobility programs

• Employee Stock ownership plan

• Regular team building events

• 1 day off per year to test our product

Hiring process

1. 45-min interview with Chloé FRIESS Talent Acquisition Manager - career path growth mindset

2. 60-min interview with Jérémy COURTIAL Senior Security Engineer - Security knowledge risk management people management teamwork - based on Case Study

3. 60-min interview with Camille MARSIGNYCISO & Head of corporate Services - strategic thinking delivery & people management and teamwork - based on Case Study

4. 30-min skip-level withNicolas SALVY CTO - culture fit and career aspirations

BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

Required Experience:

Manager

Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1