Director, Platform & Security Engineering

Ellevation Education; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Ellevation Education is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to lead a growing R&D security & platform modernization program. You’ll own security practice, guide Staff Engineers across eight squads, and partner with CA to meet security standards and KPIs.

You’ll balance competing priorities and drive impactful, cross-team initiatives. You’ll report to the VP of Engineering and shape hiring to build a high-performing security-focused engineering team with strong collaboration across product and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with leadership experience.
• Proven track record taking large, ambiguous problems across teams to delivery.
• Experience with security across application and cloud security, compliance, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Lead a Staff Engineer group and guide cross-squad initiatives.
• Collaborate with engineering managers and product leads to prioritize work.
• Represent Ellevation in CA security forums and report remediation progress.
• Own security responsibilities and coordinate with CA's central security organization.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Security mindset

Risk communication

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Tools

SAST

SCA

Dependency scanning tooling

Job description

Ellevation Education is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to lead a growing R&D security & platform modernization program. You’ll own security practice, guide Staff Engineers across eight squads, and partner with CA to meet security standards and KPIs.

You’ll balance competing priorities and drive impactful, cross-team initiatives. You’ll report to the VP of Engineering and shape hiring to build a high-performing security-focused engineering team with strong collaboration across product and