Security Strategy Lead - Remote, Equity, High-Impact Infra

Jobgether; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity participation

Fully remote work environment

Generous vacation policy

Wellness budget

Learning & development support

Travel opportunities & teamCollab

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Head of Security in the United States to own the security strategy and execution for our technology infrastructure powering the decentralized ecosystem. This hands-on leadership role requires strengthening security across cloud environments, production systems, and engineering platforms.

You will lead incident response, manage risks, and embed security best practices into engineering workflows, while maintaining autonomy to drive critical security decisions and grow the

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cybersecurity for high-availability, internet-facing infrastructure.
• Strong engineering background with ability to read/write code.
• Deep expertise in cloud security, production environments, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on security monitoring, threat detection, incident response, and leadership of real incidents.
• Experience building security programs from the ground up or scaling an existing function.
• Experience securing developer-focused products, APIs, platforms, or critical infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of IAM, secrets management, cryptographic keys, and infrastructure security practices.
• Ability to develop pragmatic security strategies, assess complex risks, and make sound decisions under pressure.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to influence engineering teams and balance business priorities.
• High ownership mentality, adaptability, and willingness to remain hands-on in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the overall security strategy, roadmap, and priorities across infrastructure, cloud environments, and production systems.
• Own incident response lifecycle, including detection, investigation, mitigation, and tabletop exercises.
• Develop and maintain threat models and risk registers, identifying vulnerabilities and prioritizing initiatives.
• Partner with engineering to integrate security into development processes, architecture decisions, and deployment workflows.
• Assess and manage third-party, vendor, and software supply-chain security risks.
• Lead the compliance roadmap, coordinate security audits, and manage customer assessments.
• Build, hire, mentor, and develop the security team as the organization grows.
• Communicate security risks, incidents, and mitigation strategies to executives and engineers.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership, addressing vulnerabilities and implementing improvements.

Skills

Cybersecurity leadership

Cloud security

Incident response

Security monitoring

IAM & secrets management

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Effective communication

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Head of Security in the United States to own the security strategy and execution for our technology infrastructure powering the decentralized ecosystem. This hands-on leadership role requires strengthening security across cloud environments, production systems, and engineering platforms.

You will lead incident response, manage risks, and embed security best practices into engineering workflows, while maintaining autonomy to drive critical security decisions and grow the