Founding Security Engineer & IT Leader

OpenEd

Northern (KY)

Hybrid

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

OpenEd is seeking the founding Security Engineer to build and lead our security program, owning IT, identity, and compliance. You will help safeguard a platform serving 100,000 students, providing essential protections for data and trust across families and educators.

You'll own four programs end-to-end: Identity & access, Corporate IT security, Compliance (SOC 2, FERPA/COPPA/state privacy), and Application security, partnering with engineering to drive remediation, audits, and secure, scalable

Job description

OpenEd is seeking the founding Security Engineer to build and lead our security program, owning IT, identity, and compliance. You will help safeguard a platform serving 100,000 students, providing essential protections for data and trust across families and educators.

You'll own four programs end-to-end: Identity & access, Corporate IT security, Compliance (SOC 2, FERPA/COPPA/state privacy), and Application security, partnering with engineering to drive remediation, audits, and secure, scalable

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