The future is already here.
It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Grammarly team members in this role will collaborate in person 4 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to different hubs. They are required to live within a commutable distance of their home hub of Berlin. Grammarly may provide relocation assistance.

The opportunity

Every day, tens of millions of people and 50,000 professional teams worldwide trust Grammarly's AI and human expertise to help ideate, compose, revise, and comprehend communications. Our team members have the autonomy to take on exciting challenges in pursuit of our mission to improve lives by improving communication. Together, we're building on more than a decade of steady growth and profitability. We're defining the communication assistance category for individuals, enterprises, and developers with tailored service offerings: Grammarly Free, Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Business, and Grammarly for Education. Our latest product offering, GrammarlyGO, brings the power of generative AI to our users. It all begins with our team collaborating in an inclusive, values-driven, and learning-oriented environment.

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join the Security Engineering team at Grammarly. This role will lead a growing team of security engineers while helping manage a wide variety of projects and initiatives to secure our product offerings and growing organization. This role is an excellent opportunity for someone interested in delivering products that make an impact, building connections, and advancing as a security professional.

Grammarly’s security engineers have the freedom to develop practical solutions that, in turn, influence our security culture. The engineering landscape at Grammarly is complex, as we create innovative product offerings, expand to new platforms, and scale underlying cloud systems—all while strengthening and expanding our global team. Read more about our stack or hear from our team on our technical blog.

Your impact

As Engineering Manager, Security, you will:

• Grow and lead security team(s) in a fast-paced SaaS company.
• Empower the team and mentor its engineers, helping them advance in their careers.
• Partner with the existing security engineers on ongoing red team and blue team initiatives.
• Work with the product development teams, raising security awareness and offering expertise to keep our product protected through all stages of software development.
• Represent Grammarly’s security engineering within and outside of the company.
• Validate our defense, detection, and response capabilities by engaging an internal offensive team as well as external engagements.
• Suggest security tools and practices with an outsize impact and drive their adoption in the organization.
• Oversee the development of in-house security tools and solutions.

We’re looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is able to collaborate in person in Berlin and potentially other hubs 4 weeks per quarter.
• Is a security practitioner with a proven record of security-focused contributions in one or more security domains (application security, incident response, security operations, threat hunting, offensive security).
• Builds strong relationships with their direct reports and peers across the company.
• Nurtures the talent in the team and raises the technical talent bar when recruiting for their team.
• Identifies impactful and practical solutions for security, from low-hanging fruit to long-term investments.
• Effectively sets and communicates priorities for themselves and their team while driving execution.

Support for you, professionally and personally

• Professional growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being. We also support professional development and advancement with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
• A connected team: Grammarly builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. Our remote-first hybrid model enables a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER (ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable) values. We work to foster belonging among team members in a variety of ways. This includes our employee resource groups, Grammarly Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities including BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs.
• Comprehensive benefits: Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing life care (including mental health care and risk benefits) and ample and defined time off. We also offer support to set up a home office, wellness and pet care stipends, learning and development opportunities, and more. Note that benefits may differ by location.

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply. Grammarly is an equal opportunity company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnic origin, religion or belief, gender, disability, sexual identity, or age.

For more details about the personal data Grammarly collects during the recruitment process, for what purposes, and how you can address your rights, please see the Grammarly Data Privacy Notice for Candidates here.

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