Lead - Product Security Engineer
Rocketlane (company site, opens in a new tab)6+ yrsChennaiOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 20–35 LPA
Posted on 17 Sept
Reach people at Rocketlane
People at this company you can reach
Log in to see who works here
Create a free account or log in to see the people at Rocketlane you could write to:
- Recruiters & HR
- People in this function
- Work addresses
Your match
Against your primary resume
Log in to see your match score
Create a free account or log in to unlock your CV match score across:
- Role fit
- Experience
- Industry relevance
Protocol Intelligence
How competitive this role is
Competition
Background fit
Strictness
Log in to see why each signal reads the way it does.
Job description
Structured overview of role & requirements
About This Role
- Own end-to-end incident response for production SaaS security incidents, including investigation, root cause analysis, and customer communication within one business day.
- Lead and mentor Product Security Engineers, reviewing pentest findings, vulnerability triage, and remediation efforts across web, API, mobile, cloud, and AI/LLM security surfaces.
- Set and enforce security standards across cloud infrastructure (AWS WAF, IAM, TLS, container isolation) and partner with CTO on security strategy and risk decisions.
Minimum Requirements
- 6+ years in security with ownership of incident response in production SaaS environments.
- Strong AWS security expertise including WAF, IAM, TLS/ALB/CloudFront policies, container, and network isolation.
- Experience managing or mentoring security engineers or demonstrated readiness to lead.
- Excellent written communication skills for incident reports, customer updates, and executive communications.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Proven ability to lead root cause analysis and implement concrete preventive controls for critical security incidents such as access control failures, data exposures, or remote code execution vulnerabilities.
- Comfortable acting as the authoritative and calm security voice during live incidents internally and externally with customers and leadership.
- Hands-on knowledge of application security fundamentals with some exposure to securing AI/LLM-powered applications and building security processes from the ground up.