Security Engineering Manager

Reverb is the largest online marketplace dedicated to buying and selling new, used, and vintage musical instruments. Since launching in 2013, Reverb has grown into a vibrant community of buyers and sellers all over the world.

By focusing on inspiring content, price transparency, musician‑focused e‑commerce tools, a music‑savvy customer service team, and more, Reverb has created an online destination where the global music community can connect over the perfect piece of music gear.

We love working at Reverb because we’re making the world more musical—through our marketplace and through Reverb Gives, which provides musical instruments to youth music education programs. We were named a “Best Place to Work” by Built in Chicago and a “Top Workplace” by the Chicago Tribune.

About the role

We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager within the Infrastructure Engineering group to lead our Security Engineering team. Security engineering at Reverb is responsible for leading, designing, and building secure systems and practices for our e‑commerce platform. They are highly involved in planning technical systems, designing secure practices, governance, and proactive engagement with the engineering and product organizations.

The Security Engineering Manager leads our security engineers and analysts in protecting, planning, and building scalable, hardened systems across our architecture. You’ll be leading these security professionals by contributing to project oversight and planning, security assessments, long‑term scope planning, proactive and preventative approaches, and being a collaborative management professional who can quickly lead our organization to make safe and practical decisions.

This is a full‑time, hybrid position reporting to the Senior Director, Engineering of our Infrastructure team. Hybrid team members are expected to work from our Chicago office 1‑3 times per week, depending on team norms.

Responsibilities

• Day‑to‑day management of security engineers and analysts at Reverb
• Security sprint planning and retrospectives
• Collaborate with other engineering managers to achieve roadmap goals
• Perform security reviews, audits, assessments, and remediation actions or reporting
• Engage in highly technical architecture feedback and design reviews
• Hands‑on engagement with git, DevOps, and security tools to help bolster understanding with other technical teams
• Advise crucial GRC, technical, and policy to engineering leadership

Requirements

• 2+ years leading or supervising security teams
• 2+ years of hands‑on experience with AWS, Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, or other generalized DevOps tooling
• 4+ years of experience in the security domain with technical expertise or contributions
• Track record of crafting, developing, and handling security projects
• Ability to develop policy, process, and procedures to apply to engineering organizations
• Detection and Response concepts with SIEM, EDR, Incident Management, IDS, and WAF like Cloudflare, Datadog, incident.io, etc.
• Experience with Vuln Management, CICD Security, BugBounty
• Regulatory experience such as PCI, FEDRAMP, SOX, etc.
• Knowledge of Authentication, RBAC, and IAM systems like Okta, AWS SSO, etc
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence
• Experience with Git

Nice to Have

• Deep networking and threat modeling experience
• Experience with AST tools like GHAS, Snyk, or ArmorCode
• Experience with CrowdStrike platforms
• Deep experience with GitHub and GitHub security controls
• Hands‑on experience with AWS EKS, Rancher, or other Kubernetes platforms

Additional Information

Remote‑eligible roles (as indicated in the location header of each job description) are available in all U.S. states except Alaska and Hawaii. Remote roles are currently only available within the U.S. unless otherwise specified in the specific job description.

Reverb offers a comprehensive total rewards package that combines base, bonus, and an array of benefits. Some of our key benefits include but are not limited to the following:

• 100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage for the employee, spouse or domestic partner, and all eligible dependents. Medical coverage includes gender affirming care.
• Life, AD&D, and supplemental long‑and short‑term disability insurance
• A matching 401(k)
• A generous PTO policy that includes vacation, sick/mental health days plus 11 paid holidays and two floating holidays
• Professional development and continued learning opportunities through access to mentoring, 1:1 coaching, and platforms like Skillsoft
• 18 weeks of gender‑neutral parental leave for the birth or adoption of a child
• Up to $25,000 reimbursement of adoption and/or surrogacy related expenses
• Paid sabbatical program
• Ways to give back to your community through volunteer time off

At Reverb, we believe that an equitable and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can come, stay and thrive makes us a more relevant and resilient company. Reverb is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during any part of the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

We know that the impostor syndrome and confidence gap are real. Please do not hesitate to apply!

The pay range for this role is:

171,000 - 223,000 USD per year (US US-Chi)