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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 19 days Nebius's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 9% of Nebius's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Nebius
- low 0 stale, 17 reposted of 384 open
- Hiring momentum
- 508 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Nebius's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Nebius.
About this role
The Head of Proactive Security at Nebius will establish and lead the Proactive Security pillar, managing teams focused on Red Team operations, penetration testing, threat hunting, and threat intelligence. This hands-on leadership role requires anticipating threats, challenging defenses, and converting findings into measurable security improvements. The position involves defining strategy, leading teams, and ensuring effective communication of security risks and improvements to senior leadership.
- benefits
- 3/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Nebius as an employer.
What you need
- Extensive cybersecurity experience, including leadership responsibility in offensive security, penetration testing, threat hunting, threat intelligence, detection engineering, or incident response
- Proven experience building or scaling multidisciplinary security teams and programs, including budgets, vendors, and external testing providers
- Strong technical understanding of modern cloud environments, identity systems, applications, APIs, networks, endpoints, containers, and production infrastructure
- Demonstrated experience planning and delivering red-team operations, penetration tests, or adversary-emulation exercises
- Practical knowledge of threat-hunting methodology, telemetry, detection logic, and investigation workflows
- Experience producing and operationalizing strategic, operational, and tactical threat intelligence
Nice to have
- Experience in cloud, hyperscale, AI, or other highly distributed technology environments
- Deep domain expertise, relevant certifications or equivalent practical experience, and a track record of responsible research or industry collaboration
What you get
- Competitive compensation
- Career growth and learning opportunities
- Flexibility and ownership
- Collaborative and innovative culture
- Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
- International environment and talented teams
Worth weighing
- Role involves significant leadership and hands-on responsibilities, which may require a high level of commitment
- No specific salary range mentioned
- The position requires a strong technical background in various security domains, which may limit candidates without such experience
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Listed by Nebius on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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