Director of Security
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Job Location:
Pittsburgh, PA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. Its a big mission and thats where you come in!
At Duolingo youll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems running countless experiments (300 at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions and educating our users and employees alike. Youll have limitless learning opportunities mentorship and collaboration with world-class minds and a variety of projects with large scopes while doing work thats both fun and meaningful.
Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world.
About the role
We are looking for a Head of Security to own the growth of our Security Program as we continue to scale to more courses and regions. This is an opportunity to shape how security integrates with the way we operate as a company and how our product is built.
As Duolingos Head of Security you will lead a high-leverage organization spanning Platform Security and Compliance. Youll set strategy coach both managers and individual contributors and be responsible for engineering performance and execution.
You will also partner with Engineering Legal Audit and Workplace to protect learner data enable developer velocity and keep a public companys disclosures and controls buttoned up.
You will...
- Develop engineers and managers on the team and help them grow in their careers by supporting them in defining strategic goals planning tasks and reviewing code.
- Work with other engineers and leaders across the company to identify and catalog risks and ensure issues are addressed in timely manner.
- Design and implement systems and processes that improve our security posture.
- Partner with external consultants and vendors on integrating security tooling into our products.
Requirements...
- Track record owning incident response detection/response and risk management; ability to translate risk to business tradeoffs.
- Prior responsibility for endpoint management/MDM identity/SSO/MFA fleet security SaaS administration and helpdesk
- Modern application security leadership and mobile-app security experience
- Cloud security (AWS/GCP) identity/IAM secrets management and IaC controls experience
- Familiarity with one or more national and/or international regulations such as GDPR ISO and SOX.
Exceptional candidates will have...
- Extensive experience in fast-growing consumer-facing data-driven startups ideally mobile app based.
- A Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
- Experience securing a large infrastructure deployment on AWS or Google Cloud.
- Established security champions programs and developer self-service guardrails (policy-as-code paved roads).
- Run a successful bug bounty; prior work with HackerOne/Bugcrowd
We post a multi-level salary range for all of our roles.
This is not inclusive of the rest of our awesome portfolio that includes equity compensation and world-class benefits. Our salary ranges are the same for all US locations. Your recruiter can share more details about the range for a specific level during the hiring process. The actual salary within the range is determined by many factors including but not limited to skills experience education and internal equity.
Take a peek at how we care for our employees holistic well-being with our benefitshere.
We will do everything we can within reason to make sure that your interview takes place in an environment that fairly and accurately assesses your skills. If you need assistance or accommodation please contact.
Duolingo is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race religion color national origin gender (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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Key Skills
- Crisis Management
- Marketing
- Public Relations
- Fundraising
- Media Relations
- Constant Contact
- Strategic Planning
- Social Media Management
- Team Management
- Public Speaking
- Wordpress
- Writing Skills
About Company
Duolingo is the world's most popular way to learn a language. It's 100% free, fun and science-based. Practice online on duolingo.com or on the apps!
