# Senior Director, Security Engineering

**Company:** [Pinterest](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/pinterest)
**Location:** Palo Alto, CA, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $330k – $577k/yr
**Experience:** 15+ years
**Skills:** Product Security, Application Security, Cloud Security, AWS, IAM, Privacy Engineering, Threat Modeling, Vulnerability Management, Security Architecture, Infrastructure As Code, CI/CD, Container Security, Secrets Management, Ai Security, Detection And Response
**Posted:** 2026-08-26

> Leads a 40+ person, multi-domain security engineering organization spanning product, cloud, infrastructure, privacy, and AI security. The role partners with the CISO and senior engineering leadership to execute security strategy, governance, and measurable programs.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end security engineering organization across product security, application security, identity and access management, vulnerability management, security architecture, software supply chain, AI/product-risk controls, and cloud infrastructure security.
- Define and execute a multi-year security engineering roadmap with measurable outcomes across product and infrastructure lifecycles.
- Own threat modeling, secure design reviews, developer security enablement, and integration of security into the software development lifecycle.
- Partner with engineering, product, infrastructure, legal, privacy, trust and safety, IT, audit, data, and strategic cloud partners such as AWS.
- Lead privacy engineering, including privacy-by-design systems, data inventory and classification, consent and preference controls, and data lifecycle and deletion.
- Drive adoption of IAM, secrets management, network security, container security, and other foundational security platforms and libraries.
- Own cloud security governance, including infrastructure-as-code security, AWS resource provisioning, CI/CD pipeline security, and security policies.
- Mature security compliance and accountability platforms, AAA standards, metrics, and automated vulnerability management.
- Serve as the CISO’s operating partner through executive communications, investment cases, and risk-reduction reporting.
- Establish unified roadmaps, service levels, prioritization, and success metrics across security and privacy engineering.
- Build and mentor a geographically distributed leadership organization and talent model.
- Shape security for AI-powered products and apply AI/ML to operational efficiency and threat response.

## Requirements
- 15+ years of progressive security engineering experience, with a foundation in software engineering or security software engineering.
- Experience leading a multi-domain security engineering organization of 30+ engineers at a large B2C consumer internet platform.
- Deep expertise in product security, secure design, application security, vulnerability management, and developer enablement.
- Meaningful experience treating privacy engineering as a technical discipline, including privacy-by-design architectures and data lifecycle engineering.
- Experience managing large security budgets and multi-year security programs from strategy through execution.
- Experience managing geographically distributed teams and global stakeholders.
- Fluency in cloud security architecture, application and product security, IAM, privacy-preserving systems, and modern detection and response engineering.
- Ability to engage senior security software engineers on technical design, architecture decisions, and engineering trade-offs.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

## Preferred
- Experience with elevated consumer threat models, such as social platforms, marketplaces, or consumer fintech.
- AWS cloud security experience.
- Experience leading privacy engineering, AI security, and security software engineering organizations.

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