Head of Security (JetBrains Cloud Platform)

JetBrains is building an AI-native platform for software development that connects developer workflows, team-level collaboration, and organizational control in a single coherent system. The platform serves as the execution and governance layer for AI-driven development, with security, policy, and auditability built in from day one.

• Senior experience leading platform or product security for a cloud platform, developer tooling platform, or infrastructure product.
• Strong hands-on background in threat modeling, secure architecture, identity and access control, secret management, isolation and sandboxing, and supply chain security.
• Experience building security programs that support enterprise adoption (security reviews, compliance enablement, incident readiness, etc.).
• Comfort operating in early-stage, evolving product contexts, with the ability to define the security system while the product is still being built and help the organization ship with confidence.

Platform security engineering and operational readiness:

• Build and run an actionable security program, taking responsibility for vulnerability management, security testing, incident response playbooks, on-call interfaces, and secure SDLC practices aligned with the platform’s release cadence.
• Define and implement security controls for platform foundations, such as identity and organizational model, integrations, telemetry, billing surfaces, and administrative UX.
• Lead readiness for enterprise security reviews, ensuring security documentation, security posture transparency, and customer-facing security assurance artifacts.

Customer trust, compliance enablement, and field partnership:

• Partner with Sales, Solutions, and Professional Services teams to unblock early design partners and enterprise rollouts with credible security answers and practical mitigations.
• Drive a pragmatic compliance path that includes security control mapping, audit support, and customer security questionnaires.
• Act as a security-facing executive in customer conversations when needed.

Leadership and team building:

• Build and mentor a lean security team (platform security and product security), with strong relationships with infrastructure, identity, and agent runtime teams.
• Implement decision frameworks that clarify what must be centralized vs delegated, when to block vs mitigate, and how to ship securely in an early-stage product environment.
• Establish security KPIs that reflect real risk reduction and adoption readiness.

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