Senior Director, Security Engineering
About The Position
Crusoe is seeking a technical and experienced Director of Security Engineering to define and drive the security strategy and roadmap for Crusoe Cloud. You will oversee product security, infrastructure security, and detection & response, while building and mentoring a world-class security engineering team. This is a hands-on leadership position, requiring a strong partner across the company to integrate security by design and ensure Crusoe Cloud maintains the highest levels of resilience and trust. You will foster an "engineering-first" security culture, where the team actively builds internal security tools and contributes security enhancements to internal software and capabilities that support our cloud platform.
Requirements
- 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.
- This role is required to be onsite in our San Francisco, CA office 5 days/week.
Responsibilities
- Security Strategy & Architecture: Define and execute the vision and roadmap for the Security Engineering team with a focus on product security, infrastructure security, and detection engineering.
- Team Leadership & Scaling: Recruit, develop, and mentor a world-class team of security engineers. You'll provide strong technical leadership while fostering a culture of collaboration, continual learning, innovation, and operational excellence.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner deeply with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Cloud Availability teams to embed a "security-first" culture. You'll ensure security is a core component of the entire product development lifecycle—from concept to launch.
- Security Expertise: Serve as a security domain expert, providing guidance and communicating security risks and concepts to senior leadership, engineering teams, and other internal stakeholders.
- AI Security Innovation: Champion and direct research into emerging threats against AI/ML systems. You'll ensure the team stays at the forefront of securing large-scale models and agentic systems, keeping our security posture ahead of the innovation curve.
- Customer Trust & Advocacy: Act as a key security evangelist for the company. You'll engage directly with customers, partners, and auditors to build trust by clearly articulating our security posture, controls, and vision, turning security into a competitive advantage and a business enabler.
- Security Operations & Incident Response: Lead and scale a global 24/7 detection and response function. You'll be responsible for deploying sophisticated automation, enhancing monitoring capabilities, and maturing incident response playbooks to handle complex threats in a distributed cloud environment.
Benefits
- Industry competitive pay
- Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company
- Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents
- Employer contributions to HSA accounts
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Teladoc
- 401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary
- Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Tuition reimbursement
- Subscription to the Calm app
- MetLife Legal
- Company paid commuter benefit; $300 per month
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
