Lead security engineering as the most senior hands-on engineer, shaping multi-year roadmap and building secure-by-default infrastructure including auth, data security, and vulnerability management.
220k – 240k
Remote7+ YOESecurity Engineering
About the role
What You'll Be Doing
Define and drive the Security Engineering North Star. Lead the development of a consolidated, multi-year Security Engineering vision — conducting gap analyses, aligning with key stakeholders, and translating strategy into an executable roadmap.
Lead the charge on AI-native Security: influence safe and thoughtful adoption of AI tooling at the enterprise level.
Build secure-by-default infrastructure. Design, build, and roll out foundational security services — including unified authentication, authorization, audit logging, and egress control.
Own data security at scale. Drive systematic data tagging across production data models, aligning with Data Classification Policy.
Champion security visibility and accountability. Build company-wide security scorecards for real-time security posture visibility.
Enable and empower the engineering organization. Partner with engineering, platform, and product teams to deliver high-leverage, secure-by-default services. Drive automated Least Privilege and systematic Vulnerability Management.
You'll Be a Good Fit If
Deep, multi-domain security expertise across Product Security, Cloud Security, Data Security, Access Governance, and/or Detection & Response.
Recent, hands-on engineering experience writing code, contributing to security infrastructure, and conducting system design reviews.
Built security programs at scale including Security Review, Secure Design, Security Champions, and Security Metrics Reporting.
Clear, compelling communicator able to present security strategy and risk to non-technical audiences.
Energized by ownership and ambiguity with ability to prioritize ruthlessly.
Skills
Security EngineeringProduct SecurityCloud SecurityData SecurityAccess GovernanceDetection And ResponseAuthenticationAuthorizationAudit LoggingVulnerability Management
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