Head of InfraSec

Gong harnesses the power of AI to transform how revenue teams win. The Gong Revenue AI Operating System unifies data, insights, and workflows into a single, trusted system that observes, guides, and acts alongside the world’s most successful revenue teams. Powered by the Gong Revenue Graph, AI-powered intelligence, specialized agents, and trusted applications, Gong helps more than 5,000 companies around the world deeply understand their teams and customers, automate critical sales workflows, and close more deals with less effort. For more information, visit www.gong.io.

At Gong, you will join a company built on innovative products, ambitious goals, and passionate people. We are shaping the future of revenue intelligence and we want people who are excited to build what comes next. You will work with a team that dreams big, moves fast, and cares deeply about the craft and about each other. Here, transparency and trust are core to how we operate, and every person has the opportunity to make a visible impact. If you want to grow, stretch, and do work that truly matters, Gong is the place to do the best work of your career.

We’re looking for a visionary Infra Security leader to architect and champion the future of secure infrastructure at Gong. You will spearhead our global strategy for building resilient, AI-powered cloud environments while enabling engineers to innovate with velocity and confidence. Together, we will maintain our market momentum and continuously elevate security as a core pillar of our value proposition.

You’ll Own:

• The global cloud security strategy, architecture, and governance for Gong’s cloud infrastructure.
• Leading a core team of ~5 cloud security specialists and providing strategic oversight for ~15 engineers in a matrix capacity.
• The evolution of our Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP) at scale.
• Cloud risk management, vulnerability tracking, and remediation programs.
• Leading, mentoring, and growing a high-performing Cloud Security Engineering team.
• Cloud infrastructure incident response procedures, playbooks, and readiness.
• Cloud security evidence, risk registers, and control documentation in partnership with GRC, Legal, Privacy, and customer-facing teams.

You’ll Solve:

• Securing massive-scale cloud environments while maintaining engineering velocity through automated guardrails and self-service security.
• Designing resilient security frameworks that support complex AI workloads, including LLM and agentic workflows in the cloud.
• Building security capabilities embedded directly into engineering workflows, including reusable frameworks, libraries, and guardrails.
• Partnering with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and AI Platform teams to ensure secure-by-design architecture and implementation.
• Balancing security rigor with engineering velocity in a fast-paced environment.

You’ll Impact:

• Enabling developers to build secure products at scale.
• Driving a measurable reduction in cloud infrastructure risk through engineering improvements.
• Establishing architectural guardrails for data protection, authorization, and runtime controls in AI systems.
• Influencing engineering decisions through deep technical collaboration and trust.
• Defining the security approach for AI-powered features and LLM integrations.

You are:

• A strategic cloud security leader with a proven track record of managing high-performing teams and matrixed engineering groups.
• Experienced in leading direct teams and influencing managers and senior engineers in a matrixed engineering organization.
• Comfortable managing managers in a dotted-line structure.
• Able to influence engineering managers without direct authority.
• Experienced in leading matrixed teams across functions.
• Passionate about enabling developers through platforms, automation, and secure-by-default design.
• An expert in Cloud Security and Infrastructure (5+ years) with substantial experience in strategic leadership and people management.
• Knowledgeable in cloud-native architectures, APIs, IAM, containers, software supply chain security, and programming languages (Python, Java, Go, or similar).
• Experienced in securing AI applications, LLM integrations, or agent-based systems (highly desirable).
• A builder who believes security should accelerate engineering, not slow it down.
• Collaborative, pragmatic, and able to influence engineering leaders without formal authority.

What makes the Security department at Gong unique?

Here at Gong, we trust and empower our employees with ownership to solve complex problems, make the right decisions, and build the best products that create radical impact. We call it “Own. Solve. Impact.”

If you are curious to discover Gong's wonderful and challenging world, what are you waiting for? Don’t delay - fill in your application details. Who knows, maybe there’s a Gongster in you!

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