Director, Application Security

🕒 September 23

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $220.2k - $351.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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📋 Description

• Lead and develop a multi-manager organization across Application Security and Security Architecture • Establish and execute a 2–3-year strategic roadmap aligned with product and platform engineering priorities • Own workforce planning, organizational design, talent acquisition, and development of future security leaders • Manage budget, tooling portfolio, and vendor relationships • Represent Application Security at executive and leadership levels and translate technical risk into business impact • Lead an AppSec organization partnering with product engineering • Build security capabilities into CI/CD pipelines, frameworks, and developer tooling • Create security enablement programs, secure coding training, and internal tooling • Ensure application portfolio coverage including secure design review, DAST/SAST integration, dependency management, and API security • Own product security strategy and embed security in product design • Build and maintain a vulnerability management program with SLAs, risk-based prioritization, and executive reporting • Establish enterprise security patterns, reference architectures, and guardrails for cloud-native AWS-centric infrastructure • Drive Zero Trust principles and identity-driven access • Embed security patterns into infrastructure-as-code and platform primitives • Partner in platform and product design reviews • Evaluate emerging threats and technology shifts and evolve controls

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of progressive security experience • At least 5 years in leadership roles managing managers and multifunctional security teams • Experience in a high-growth consumer technology or fintech company strongly preferred • Background in security engineering, software development, or platform engineering • Experience owning multiple security domains simultaneously • Track record building Application Security programs integrated into SDLC, CI/CD, and developer workflows • Deep expertise in multi-cloud security, preferably AWS • Experience with IaC security using Terraform or CloudFormation • Kubernetes and container security knowledge • Zero Trust architecture experience • Detection engineering experience, including custom detection pipelines, SOAR automation, and threat-model-driven coverage • Ability to quantify and communicate security risk in business and financial terms • Experience presenting to executive leadership and ideally board-level audiences • Experience hiring and developing elite security engineers • Familiarity with SIEM, SOAR, DLP, EDR, EPM, CSPM/CWPP, SAST/DAST, IaC, and container security tooling • Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language such as Python or Go

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity awards based on experience, performance, and location • Remote work from a physical location of the employee’s choice • Flexible work from wherever employees are most productive through Cloud HQ • Equal employment opportunity and accommodation support

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