Director of Platform Security Engineering

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $220k - $235k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Pax8

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

🏪 Marketplace

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

💰 $50M Debt Financing - Pax8 on 2023-09

Marketplace • B2B • SaaS

Pax8 is a cloud commerce marketplace and platform that helps managed service providers (MSPs) and small businesses discover, purchase, provision, and manage cloud solutions. It combines a vendor marketplace, subscription and billing management, security offerings, training (Academy), and professional services to enable partners to scale, sell smarter, and protect their customers.

📋 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