About the job
Join Thumbtack in Transforming Home Care!
At Thumbtack, we empower millions of individuals to manage and enhance their homes with confidence. Our app is a comprehensive solution for home maintenance, offering everything from personalized recommendations to cutting-edge AI tools, all designed to create a seamless hiring experience. Every day, homeowners across the U. S. rely on Thumbtack to undertake urgent repairs, seasonal upkeep, and significant renovations. If you are inspired by the prospect of making a meaningful impact, we invite you to be part of our journey. Together, we can shape the future of home care.
About the Cybersecurity Team
The Security Engineering team at Thumbtack is dedicated to driving innovation at scale by integrating security into our core processes. We believe that robust security can enhance operational speed rather than hinder it. By embedding security within our systems, platforms, and developer workflows from the outset, we create a secure environment that fosters rapid innovation.
We collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Platform, and Data teams to design systems, inform architectural choices, and continuously improve Thumbtack’s security posture as we grow. Through effective collaboration, automation, and strategic decision-making, we ensure that Thumbtack can deliver quickly, innovate boldly, and maintain the trust of our customers.
The Challenge Ahead
As Thumbtack expands its offerings and integrates AI-driven features, our security practices must evolve to keep pace with innovation. The increasing complexity of our services, deployment strategies, and data flows requires a shift from traditional manual reviews to proactive security measures embedded within our systems. Our objective is to create secure defaults and reusable components that engineering teams can implement with ease, allowing them to operate swiftly while significantly mitigating risk.
Your Role and Responsibilities
- Lead the long-term technical vision for application security across Thumbtack, while developing prioritized roadmaps to address systemic security vulnerabilities throughout our application stack.
- Manage large-scale, cross-functional security projects from conception through to execution.
- Create secure-by-default architectures, standards, and guided paths that facilitate engineering efforts. Develop and implement shared security tools, libraries, and services that empower our engineering teams to deliver efficiently and securely.

