Director of Security

5 hours, 48 minutes ago
Full-time
Executive
DevOps and Infrastructure
Puck

Puck

Puck helps great teams find great teammates through employer branding, conversations, and authentic candidate engagement, using personalized automation to enhance the candidate experience and improve hiring metrics.

Internet Software & Services
1-10
Founded 2020

Description

  • Lead, mentor, and grow the security team, including emerging security leaders and engineers.
  • Build and mature a comprehensive security strategy aligned with business and product goals.
  • Embed security into engineering workflows, including threat modeling, design reviews, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Own security architecture, operations, engineering, IT compliance, and third-party risk assessment programs.
  • Partner with engineering and product teams to introduce pragmatic security guardrails early in the development lifecycle.
  • Act as a risk-management advisor who balances security controls with business speed and employee experience.
  • Communicate security risks and concepts clearly to executive leadership and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Coordinate security programs to meet regulatory, fintech, and public-company expectations.

Requirements

  • Experience leading, mentoring, and growing small security teams in highly regulated, growth-stage businesses.
  • Public company experience or familiarity with the requirements of a public company environment.
  • Strong communication and influence skills, with the ability to build alignment across complex organizations.
  • Demonstrated ability to balance risk mitigation with business growth, operational speed, and employee experience.
  • Deep understanding of cloud-native security principles, including least privilege, zero trust, segmentation, and IAM controls.
  • Ability to make practical architectural trade-offs between usability, performance, and security.
  • Direct experience in growth-stage fintech or insurtech companies is preferred.
  • Prior experience guiding a security function through an IPO is preferred.
  • Hands-on familiarity with security and compliance frameworks and regulations such as NIST, CIS, SOX, SOC 2, PCI, and CCPA/CPRA.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and DevSecOps tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and automated security controls in deployment pipelines.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $240,000 to $300,000 USD.
  • Eligible for an annual performance-based bonus.
  • Eligible for equity compensation.
  • Health, dental, and vision benefits with savings plans.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan and Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • Robust tuition reimbursement program.
  • Monthly internet and phone reimbursement plus a work-from-home stipend and Mac computer for home office setup.
  • Competitive PTO and competitive parental leave.
  • $1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary.

Interested in this position?

Apply directly on the company website

Apply Now

Similar Roles

AI Security Engineer - Mid-Atlantic region (Remote in VA, MD, PA, NC, DE, NJ, or DC)

GuidePoint Security 251-1K Internet Software & Services

GuidePoint Security is hiring an AI Security Engineer to help customers design, implement, secure, and operate generative AI security solutions across enterprise environments.

Cybersecurity Generative AI LLM Python SageMaker Terraform
5 hours, 33 minutes ago

Staff Software Engineer - K9 Security

Datadog 5K-10K IT Services

Datadog is hiring a Staff Software Engineer on its Security Agent team to lead low-level Linux instrumentation and runtime security work that powers threat detection and workload protection across its security products.

Datadog Linux
5 hours, 48 minutes ago

Staff Software Engineer - K9 Security

Datadog 5K-10K IT Services

Datadog is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Security Agent team to lead Linux instrumentation and runtime security work that supports threat detection, workload protection, and cloud security products at scale.

Linux
6 hours, 33 minutes ago

Client Security Expert/Architect

OKX 1K-5K Diversified Financial Services

OKX is hiring for client security roles focused on protecting client-side systems through risk identification, architecture design, and automated defense operations.

Android Blockchain iOS
6 hours, 33 minutes ago

You're on a roll! Sign up now to keep applying.

Sign Up

Already have an account? Log in

Used by 14,729+ remote workers