Director, Security Engineering

Crusoe

full-time

Posted on: 9/25/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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💰 $256,000 - $320,000 per year

Lead

Cloud

About the role

Define and execute the vision and roadmap for the Security Engineering team with a focus on product security, infrastructure security, and detection engineering.
Recruit, develop, and mentor a world-class team of security engineers; provide technical leadership and foster a culture of collaboration and operational excellence.
Partner deeply with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Cloud Availability teams to embed a "security-first" culture across the product development lifecycle.
Serve as a security domain expert, providing guidance and communicating security risks and concepts to senior leadership and internal stakeholders.
Champion and direct research into emerging threats against AI/ML systems, securing large-scale models and agentic systems.
Act as a security evangelist to customers, partners, and auditors; articulate security posture, controls, and vision.
Lead and scale a global 24/7 detection and response function, deploy automation, enhance monitoring, and mature incident response playbooks.

10+ years of experience in security engineering, with at least 4+ years leading security teams.
Ability to think strategically, set a clear vision, make informed decisions, and guide the team towards achieving security objectives.
Proven track record of building, mentoring, and scaling high-performing security engineering teams that ship production-grade software or security tooling.
Hands-on experience with threat modeling, secure coding practices, and implementing authorization architectures that meet best practices.
Ability to make challenging security roadmap decisions in the absence of complete information.
Strong background securing cloud infrastructure technologies, including public and private cloud, virtualization, and containerization.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively engage with diverse stakeholders, present technical concepts, and build consensus.
Experience or desire to use GenAI to solve security challenges.
Required to be onsite in our San Francisco, CA office 5 days/week.