About the company
Our client is a financial technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead the security function at a fast-paced company, pairing hands-on engineering with people leadership of security engineers. The role covers building security controls into everyday engineering work, shaping security architecture for automated systems, and owning compliance and incident response.
What you'll do
- Build security tooling and processes that engineers adopt as a natural part of shipping software.
- Manage and develop a group of security engineers, supporting their professional growth.
- Strengthen secure development lifecycle practices, threat modeling and vulnerability management.
- Design security architecture for automated and AI-driven systems, covering data privacy and AI-specific risks.
- Partner with go-to-market and legal teams on compliance and customer security questions.
- Own the compliance roadmap across major security frameworks.
- Lead incident response, build detection capabilities and turn each incident into lasting improvements.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Able to write code and read production software, so you can trace and remediate security flaws yourself.
- Strong grounding in application security, product security, secure development lifecycle, web security and DevSecOps.
- Demonstrated accountability for independent audit attestations under widely used security frameworks.
Bonus points
- Background as a software or full-stack engineer who moved into security.
- Earlier work in a senior security leadership position or as the first security hire at a company.
- Involvement in the security community, such as speaking, attending conferences or maintaining open-source projects.
- Degree from a highly ranked US university.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: $200K to $300K
- Equity
- Comprehensive healthcare
- Retirement plan
- Flexible time off
Location and work model
- San Francisco, California, United States
- On-site
- Full-time
Skills Required
- Ability to write code and read production software to trace and remediate security flaws
- Strong grounding in application security, product security, secure development lifecycle, web security, and DevSecOps
- Demonstrated accountability for independent audit attestations under widely used security frameworks
- Background as a software or full-stack engineer who moved into security
- Prior senior security leadership experience or experience as a company’s first security hire
- Involvement in the security community through speaking, conferences, or open-source projects
- Degree from a highly ranked US university
What We Do
Raydar is a talent acquisition and business consulting firm that connects world-class and emerging talent with growing organizations. It supports companies through team development, strategic hiring, and customized growth solutions, helping clients recruit roles such as engineers, product managers, executives, legal counsel, and quantitative traders. Raydar focuses on understanding each organization’s needs, culture, and long-term goals to build high-impact teams.
