Lead Security Engineer

Role overview

Workplace

• Remote U.S. candidates are encouraged to apply.
• The position may be performed in-office in New York City or from home.

Responsibilities

• Own security strategy, architecture, policies, risk management, operating cadence, and a prioritized roadmap.
• Design and operate secure cloud and infrastructure foundations, including identity, vulnerability management, configuration assurance, logging, detection, and incident readiness.
• Improve application and product security through secure design, threat modeling, security reviews, testing, and remediation guidance.
• Lead third-party risk, security awareness, audits, and compliance activities such as SOC 2.
• Coach engineers, SREs, and business partners and establish clear security ownership.
• Communicate security vision, risk, tradeoffs, progress, and delivery to executives and stakeholders.
• Align application and platform security controls through shared standards and tooling.
• Integrate security into the software development lifecycle through shift-left practices.
• Mature vulnerability triage, risk prioritization, SLA tracking, and remediation orchestration.
• Influence roadmap decisions, resource allocation, and security investment priorities.

Skills and experience

• Experience owning significant parts of an information security program while delivering strategic and hands-on technical work.
• Broad security experience across cloud, infrastructure, application, data, identity, and corporate environments.
• Experience working with SRE, platform, and software engineering teams.
• Strong judgment in security monitoring, vulnerability management, incident response, security architecture, and risk prioritization.
• Ability to operate in a fast-moving, resource-conscious environment with shifting priorities.
• Clear communication and experience presenting security strategy, risk, and delivery status to executives.
• Collaborative player/coach approach with direct contribution, coaching, and accountability.

Compensation

• The base salary range is $150,000-$200,000 per year.
• The role is eligible for additional incentive compensation not included in the posted range.

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