# Director of Product Security

**Company:** [Idme](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/idme)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $244k – $272k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Threat Modeling, Application Security, Security Engineering, Vulnerability Management, Cloud Security Posture Management, Sca, SAST, Secret Scanning, GCP, GitHub, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Penetration Testing, Red Team
**Posted:** 2026-08-24

> Leads ID.me’s Product Security program and security engineering team, partnering with Product and Engineering to reduce risk through practical, developer-aligned controls. Requires strong technical depth across application and cloud security, outcome-based leadership, and experience building security programs in fast-moving cloud-native environments.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the Product Security program end to end, including threat modeling, secure code and architecture reviews, software composition analysis, secret scanning, vulnerability management, cloud security posture management, and configuration management.
- Integrate scalable, shift-left security controls across the secure software development lifecycle.
- Build, grow, and lead a team of security engineers, supporting their development, growth, and well-being.
- Define clear, outcome-oriented security requirements and enable Engineering teams to self-serve.
- Partner with Product and Engineering during design and architecture to implement secure-by-design practices.
- Build and maintain security tools and services that help engineers ship secure products efficiently.
- Own penetration testing and red-team execution, findings, scope, and remediation outcomes.
- Drive risk reduction and issue remediation to closure while applying practical, appropriately scoped security judgment.
- Champion AI-augmented security workflows and collaborate across Product Security, Security Operations, Governance, Risk and Compliance, IT, and Physical Security.

## Requirements
- Demonstrated outcome-based leadership and accountability for security results.
- Experience partnering effectively with Engineering in a fast-moving environment.
- Technical depth in threat modeling, code and architecture review, SCA/SAST, secret scanning, vulnerability management, and cloud security posture management.
- Experience building or maturing an Application Security, Security Engineering, or Product Security program in a cloud-native environment.
- Experience with GCP, GitHub, Kubernetes/GKE, Apigee, Terraform, and modern CI/CD is strongly preferred.
- Experience with Socket.dev, Sysdig, Trivy, DependencyTrack, or HackerOne is strongly preferred.
- Experience with AI-augmented security workflows using Claude, Gemini, or Vertex AI is strongly preferred.
- Growth-stage experience building security programs rather than only maintaining them is strongly preferred.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual base salary: **$243,699–$271,644 USD**.
- Base salary excludes bonus, equity, and benefits.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, health savings and flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, life and disability insurance, 401(k) with company match, parental leave, paid time off, company holidays, employee assistance, pet insurance, learning and development benefits, and other wellbeing programs.

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