Security & Compliance Engineer

Clarity Financial, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a skilled Security Engineer to enhance the safety of educational platforms. This role involves leading security initiatives, managing vulnerabilities, and ensuring compliance in a fully remote environment. You'll collaborate with engineering teams to assess risks and deliver training, all while contributing to a mission that makes education more accessible. Join a growing company that values collective success and offers generous benefits, including 100% health coverage and stock options. If you're passionate about security and eager to create secure experiences for families, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Generous PTO

Company sponsored get-togethers

Stock options

100% Company sponsored health insurance

Fully remote work environment

Qualifications

• Experience leading security initiatives in a SaaS environment.
• Strong written communication skills for cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure and application security initiatives.
• Deliver onboarding and annual security training for staff.

Skills

Django

React

Security Compliance

Communication Skills

Tools

Remix

DataDog

Cloudflare

Job description

• Be a trusted guide that helps millions of families to discover, plan for and access the best educational opportunities for their children.
• Help schools to adapt and operate like the dynamic businesses they must be in order to survive and best serve the families of the future.
• Build a company where people are able to do the best work of their careers and consistently solve complex problems in novel ways that create unique value in the world.

Clarity is modernizing the relationship between schools and families. Our platform simplifies complex, yet critical functions like admission, financial aid, enrollment, and billing. Since launching in 2022, we’ve grown to support 1,200+ schools and hundreds of thousands of families. As we continue to build, our mission remains clear: to make education more accessible for families and more sustainable for schools.

What you'll do at Clarity

Security Engineering

• Lead infrastructure and application security initiatives, managing secrets, dependency hygiene, and maintaining secure CI/CD practices
• Own internal access controls and role management, enforcing least-privilege principles and improving how we grant, revoke, and manage permissions across environments
• Monitor for suspicious activity; extend our audit tooling; grow coverage of logging and traceability
• Partner with engineers to assess security in product features, with a particular focus on sensitive areas like uploads, payments, and data exports
• Manage and resolve system vulnerabilities on an ongoing basis, including addressing findings from automated scans, third-party tools, and annual penetration tests
• Build internal tools to enforce and/or strengthen Clarity’s security policies
• Own vendor inventory and security reviews, internal risk assessments, incident response procedures & simulations, vulnerability tracking, and change management tracking
• Support SOC2 security policy reviews, onboarding and offboarding procedures, and business continuity simulations
• Complete and manage responses to school security questionnaires and vendor risk assessments

Education and Enablement

• Deliver onboarding and annual security training, including phishing simulations and refreshers
• Maintain centralized documentation on security policies, processes, and best practices
• Act as a consultative partner to engineering and product by helping teams assess risk without becoming a blocker
• Define and maintain a rolling security roadmap; report to engineering leadership on posture, risk exposure, and readiness in monthly status updates

We’d love to hear from you if…

• You are proficient with Django and React, or comparable modern web frameworks
• Experience leading both technical and compliance-oriented security work at a SaaS company
• Strong written communicator with the ability to drive cross-functional initiatives
• You are eager to provide secure experiences for millions of families
• You are low ego, focused on collective success, and practical about meeting goals

Tools we use every day

• Remix (React, Typescript)
• DataDog
• Cloudflare
• Growing company with lots of opportunities to grow with us
• Fully remote team and work environment
• Generous PTO
• Company sponsored get togethers / off sites
• Stock - every team member has some level of ownership in Clarity
• Competitive compensation
• 100% Company sponsored health, medical and dental insurance

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