Director of Platform Security Engineering

🕒 September 25

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $220k - $235k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Pax8

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

🏪 Marketplace

☁️ SaaS

💰 $185M Venture Round on 2022-04

Consulting • Marketplace • SaaS

Pax8 is an AI-powered digital marketplace designed specifically for small businesses. It serves as a platform for partners and vendors, offering resources, professional services, and events tailored to help businesses grow and succeed. Pax8 emphasizes building security solutions while providing extensive support and learning opportunities through its Pax8 Academy and collaboration within its partner community.

📋 Description

• Establish and execute a comprehensive platform security vision aligned with business objectives and risk management priorities • Define long-term security roadmaps supporting product innovation and scalable growth • Champion security as an accelerator rather than a blocker • Own the security posture of cloud-native platforms, services, data, and infrastructure • Improve security architecture, controls, and operational resilience • Evaluate emerging technologies and adopt practices that improve security effectiveness • Integrate security practices throughout software delivery processes • Guide engineering teams through secure design, threat assessment, testing, validation, and deployment • Ensure secure coding principles and security standards are consistently applied • Partner with professional services and engineering teams on secure software development and maintenance • Establish repeatable security frameworks for internal and customer-facing solutions • Develop security metrics, reporting frameworks, and executive dashboards • Use data-driven insights to assess risk, improve controls, and demonstrate program effectiveness • Provide leadership during security incidents and emerging threats • Drive proactive risk identification, mitigation, learning, and readiness • Recruit, mentor, and empower security and engineering professionals • Foster collaboration, accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, and a high-performing culture • Develop future leaders and enable secure innovation across Pax8's technology ecosystem

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated expertise leading platform, application, or product security programs within complex technology environments • Extensive experience embedding security practices into modern software delivery and engineering workflows • Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, secure development methodologies, and DevOps operating models • Proven capability implementing and optimizing security tooling across application, infrastructure, and cloud environments • Strong knowledge of threat modeling, vulnerability management, security testing, and secure software engineering principles • Experience leveraging security analytics, operational metrics, and risk-based decision-making to drive improvements • Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence technical and executive audiences alike • Collaborative leadership style with a passion for mentoring and developing high-performing teams • Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, evolving environment while balancing strategic vision with operational execution • Bachelor's degree in a related discipline or equivalent professional experience • Valid right to work in United States • Successful completion of pre-employment checks, including ID verification, reference requests and qualification checks

🏖️ Benefits

• 401(k) with Company Match • Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • Employer-Paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance • Flexible Open PTO • Paid Sick Leave • Paid Parental Leave • RTD EcoPass (eligible Colorado-based employees) • Extensive room for professional growth • Internal development hub • Learning & Development trainers • AI powered tools • Mentorship from "born in the cloud" mentors • Cross continent collaboration • Identity verification, reference requests and qualification checks for successful candidates

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