At JetBrains, we are building an AI-native platform for software development that connects developer workflows, team-level collaboration, and organizational control in a single coherent system. Designed to work across teams, tools, and environments, this platform serves as the execution and governance layer for AI-driven development, with security, policy, and auditability built in from day one.
We are now looking for a Head of Security to own the security strategy and execution for the agentic platform and its core services (governance, identity, agent execution, integrations, telemetry, and billing surfaces). This is a senior leadership role that combines product security, cloud and platform security, and enterprise trust-building. You will partner closely with product and engineering leaders to ensure we can ship fast while meeting the security expectations of regulated and security-conscious organizations.
Key responsibilities
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.
Success criteria:
- Implementation of a repeatable security review process that scales with releases (not dependent on heroics).
- Measurable reduction in critical security risks across the platform’s surface.
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 (with enterprise-grade expectations) that includes security control mapping, audit support, and customer security questionnaires, at speed.
- Act as a security-facing executive in customer conversations when needed.
Success criteria:
- Security becoming an adoption enabler, with fewer blocked deals or PoCs due to security concerns, as well as faster security sign-offs.
- Implementation of a clear enterprise-grade security baseline for the platform that supports scale.
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 (not vanity metrics).
Success criteria:
- A high-trust, high-velocity security organization that product and engineering teams want to partner with.
- Security priorities that are clearly tied to platform milestones and customer adoption.
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