Staff Security Engineer

Location: New York City; must be able to work from or relocate to New York City

Salary: $204,000–$306,000 USD base salary annually, supplemented by equity compensation.

Company

hirify.global develops education products intended to make learning universally available to learners worldwide.

What you will do

• Set technical direction for security across applications, cloud infrastructure, and engineering systems.
• Lead complex, multi-team security initiatives from problem definition and design through implementation, measurement, and ongoing ownership.
• Build scalable security services, controls, and automation for preventing, detecting, and remediating risks.
• Partner with engineering teams on threat modeling, architecture and code reviews, risk prioritization, and practical mitigations.
• Strengthen software-development lifecycle security, including secrets management, dependency security, vulnerability management, CI/CD controls, and infrastructure as code.
• Lead significant incident response, communicate risks and tradeoffs, mentor engineers, and establish secure-by-default patterns.

Requirements

• Track record of leading large, complex security engineering initiatives across multiple teams from proposal through production.
• Deep experience in at least two areas: application security, product security, cloud security, infrastructure security, detection and response, or security automation.
• Strong software-engineering skills in one or more programming or scripting languages, with experience building reliable production systems or internal platforms.
• Experience securing cloud environments and designing controls for identity, networking, data protection, secrets, logging, and workload security.
• Experience applying threat modeling, architecture review, code review, and vulnerability analysis to real-world systems.
• Experience using infrastructure as code and CI/CD to deliver repeatable, testable, and secure configurations.
• Sound judgment balancing security risk, engineering effort, product needs, and business priorities.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including influencing stakeholders with different technical backgrounds.
• Ability to work from or relocate to New York City.

Nice to have

• Experience building an early-stage security program or technical capability and scaling it across an engineering organization.
• Experience securing large multi-account or multi-cloud environments, particularly AWS and GCP.
• Experience creating security platforms or paved-road patterns broadly adopted by engineers.
• Experience leading high-severity incident response and driving durable improvements afterward.
• Experience applying AI-assisted tooling to security analysis, remediation, or control validation.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on education products used by a large global learner base.
• Collaborate across Engineering, Product, Legal, Finance, and IT.
• Access mentorship, learning opportunities, and collaboration with technical specialists.
• Base salary is supplemented by equity compensation, with additional employee benefits available.