Senior Tech Lead Manager, Vulnerability Management - Global Security Organization

The mission of TikTok's Global Security Organization is to build and earn trust by reducing risk and securing our businesses and products. Also known as "GSO", this team is the foundation of our efforts to keep TikTok safe, secure, and operating at scale for over 1 billion people around the world. We work to ensure that the TikTok platform is safe and secure, that our users' experience and their data remains safe from external or internal threats, and that we comply with global regulations wherever TikTok operates.

Trust is one of TikTok's biggest initiatives, and security is integral to our success. In whatever ways users interact with us — whether they're watching videos on their For You page, interacting with a Live video, or buying products on TikTok Shop — GSO protects their data and privacy, so they can have a secure and trustworthy experience.

Your role, as the Senior Tech Lead Manager of the vulnerability management team, will be to manage product security incidents, develop internal security initiatives, gather intelligence, investigate, and validate reported vulnerabilities. We're heavily involved in the vulnerability space to improve TikTok's security every day.

Responsibilities: - Take the initiative to explore and define security problems in TikTok infrastructure and products; identify the gaps between existing systems and security goals. - Define the scalable and robust security components and infrastructures evolution strategy and roadmap; lead the execution based on the company's business, industry trends and technology stack. - Lead highly motivated software engineers; interpret architectural design and goals into executable engineering plans addressing full stack security, privacy and compliance requirements; and eventually build and deliver software, which is secure-by-design. - Establish risk-based scoring by correlating scanning data with threat intelligence, real-world exploitability (CVSS, OWASP Top 10), and business asset criticality. - Collaborate with cross-function teams in TikTok, promoting/onboarding security services/products in TikTok infrastructure. - Track cutting-edge security technologies and bring them to TikTok in an effective way. - Leverage AI and Agents in the full lifecycle of vulnerability and attack surface management to improve the efficiency