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Pegasystems

Senior Manager, Platform Engineering, Security

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Meet Our Team

The Platform Engineering Organization at Pega builds foundational services that power our cloud-based platform, enabling customers worldwide to deploy secure, scalable, and resilient applications. We are expanding our leadership team with a Senior Manager Platform Security to strengthen our platform security posture and ensure our products meet the highest standards of trust and reliability.

Picture Yourself At Pega

Pega is a lowcode platform for AIpowered decisioning and workflow automation.

What You'll Do At Pega

  • Own and lead platform wide vulnerability management and security assessments for a largescale, Java based enterprise platform.
  • Act as the primary security leader and POC for platform engineering teams.
  • Manage the full lifecycle of vulnerabilities, from identification and triage to remediation and verification.
  • Coordinate and support security assessments, including static and dynamic testing, penetration testing, and audit activities.
  • Partner with engineering, product, and DevSecOps teams to embed security into the software development lifecycle.
  • Establish security standards, remediation SLAs, and release readiness criteria.
  • Provide leadership visibility into security risks, trends, and remediation health.
  • Mentor teams and promote secure by design engineering practices.

Who You Are

  • A senior technical leader with a strong background in platform or product security.
  • Experienced in balancing security rigor with engineering velocity.
  • Comfortable driving cross functional initiatives and influencing at senior levels.
  • Passionate about building secure, high quality enterprise software.

What You've Accomplished

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • 15 -18 years of software engineering experience, with several years in senior leadership roles.
  • Strong experience with Java based systems, vulnerability management, and secure SDLC practices.
  • Familiarity with common security testing approaches (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, penetration testing).
  • Experience working in cloud native, CI/CD driven environments.
  • Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.

Pega Offers You

  • Gartner Analyst acclaimed technology leadership across our categories of products
  • Continuous learning and development opportunities
  • An innovative, inclusive, agile, flexible, and fun work environment
  • Competitive global benefits program inclusive ofpay + bonus incentive, employee equity in the company

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