Software Development Manager - Application Security

Clio is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely.

We are transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice.

Clio is building an agentic Security Operations Center. Instead of staffing a room of analysts to watch dashboards, we're building the AI-driven system that does the watching: it triages alerts, investigates, and takes the first response action, so the humans on the team spend their time on the work that needs a human. Our goal is to automate every event we can, and we mean every event.

We're looking for the manager who builds both the Blue Team's software and the team itself. This is an engineering leadership role first. The team writes software: detection pipelines, automated response, the agents, and the integrations that tie them into Clio's products and infrastructure. You'll lead that team, set its technical direction, and stay close enough to the code to review it and contribute. Beyond leading, you'll get into the codebase and make changes in the agentic SOC and Clio's core applications, accelerated by Claude and Codex.

You won't be working alone. Clio's Red Team finds and exploits weaknesses; the Threat Intelligence function tracks who is targeting us and how. The Blue Team takes what both of them learn and turns it into defenses that hold: hardened infrastructure, hardened product, and detection that catches the next attempt automatically.

As you onboard, one of the first tasks will be building out the team. We care much more about finding the right people than filling seats quickly, and you'll own that search: defining what great looks like, interviewing, and selling the work to people who have plenty of options.

The people we want are builders who are curious about security, or security people who build. You'll set the culture for a small, senior-leaning team that ships, owns the results, and makes its work visible to the rest of the company.

Build the agentic SOC

Harden against new adversary techniques

Harden Clio's products

Close the loop with the Red Team

Detect and stop product abuse

Compensation is one of the main components of Clio’s Total Rewards Program. We have developed a series of programs and processes to ensure we are creating fair and competitive pay practices that form the foundation of our human and high-performing culture.

Some highlights of our Total Rewards program include:

The expected salary range for this role is £104,000 to £156,000 GBP. Initial placement within the range is informed by geographic region, experience, and skillset, with room to progress as impact and tenure grow. Final offer amounts will vary based on candidate profile.

Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility

Our team shows up as their authentic selves, and are united by our mission. We are dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. We pride ourselves in building and fostering an environment where our teams feel included, valued, and enabled to do the best work of their careers, wherever they choose to log in from. We believe that different perspectives, skills, backgrounds, and experiences result in higher-performing teams and better innovation. We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Clio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Learn more about our culture at clio.com/careers

We're a Human and High Performing AI company, meaning we use artificial intelligence to improve all of our operations. In recruitment, AI helps us streamline the process for greater efficiency. However, we've built our systems to ensure that a human always reviews AI-generated output, and we never make automated hiring decisions.

Disclaimer: We only communicate with candidates through official @clio.com email addresses.

• Strong software development skills. We want you to build the software and have a direct impact on it
• Experience leading engineers, as a people manager or a tech lead who has grown into the role
• Hands-on security experience: secure development, and finding and fixing vulnerabilities
• Comfort making decisions about automation and AI where the cost of being wrong is a locked out lawyer that can sue us for free, and designing systems that fail safely
• Clear communication with engineers, leadership, and partner teams
• You started in the trenches (SOC analyst, incident responder) and moved into engineering. We know this path is rare, and we'd love to hear from you if it's yours!
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs or agentic systems in production
• Detection engineering experience with a SIEM, SOAR, or detection-as-code pipeline
• Experience with fraud, anti-abuse, or trust and safety systems
• Cloud security and infrastructure hardening experience (AWS, identity providers, endpoint tooling)
• A recognized security certification or equivalent track record such as CISSP, GIAC/GCIH, OSCP, CREST
• Experience running or planning a follow-the-sun or on-call security function

• Hire, grow, and retain a team of engineers
• Set clear direction and priorities, and make the team's progress visible to security leadership and the wider company
• Help define how the team scales toward follow-the-sun coverage