Senior Director, Product and Platform Security

Role overview This leadership role owns product and platform security end to end for a cloud, payments, and hardware platform serving restaurants and local businesses. Reporting directly to the CISO, the role shifts security from a compliance-led, reactive function to an engineering-led, proactive one, embedding security engineers alongside developers and building paved roads that make the secure path the default.

Responsibilities - Partner with product and engineering leaders to transform how security is built into the product portfolio, leveraging AI, automation, and innovation - Own shared services, guardrails, and secure defaults, consolidating overlapping tooling into a coherent self-service platform - Run application and cloud security programs, including the secure development lifecycle, threat modeling, and software supply chain integrity - Build developer enablement through embedding, tooling adoption, training, and a security champions network that extends the team's reach - Lead offensive security and vulnerability management in a purple-team rhythm with detection engineering, and own hardware security as part of the broader remit - Lead and grow an existing security engineering team, hiring additional senior engineers as scope expands

Requirements - Track record running a multi-team security engineering organization, not just a single application security queue - Depth in cloud-native security, including infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipeline security, containers, and microservices - Demonstrated success shifting security left through self-service and paved roads while reducing developer friction - Experience being treated as a peer by senior engineering leaders and changing how a product organization builds - Judgment about where to automate, where to embed engineers, and where to hold a firm line - Engineering or software development background, ideally from a modern SaaS or cloud-native company rather than a heavily regulated, policy-driven environment

Nice to have - A point of view on securing AI in a product - Experience negotiating compromise with engineering teams in difficult situations without losing ground on what matters - Fintech background

Benefits and work setup - Hybrid work model with in-person collaboration expectations that vary by location - Base salary ranges from $215,000 to $440,000 USD depending on geographic zone, plus equity, bonus or commission eligibility, and a comprehensive benefits package - Hiring process supported by AI tools for note-taking and documentation, with all decisions made by people - Reasonable accommodations available for candidates with disabilities throughout the hiring process