Canary Technologies
Lead Security Engineer
United States +1 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Location
- United States
Latin America - Experience
- 8+ years in security engineering, including 2+ years leading a team as a manager or tech lead.
About the job
Leads Canary Technologies’ Security team and owns its security and compliance program, technical direction, and security communications with customers, partners, and auditors.
What you'll do
- Lead, coach, and grow the Security team, including hiring, performance, priorities, and career development.
- Own the security and compliance program, including audits, policies, vendor risk, and security awareness.
- Set direction for security tooling and review architecture and threat models hands-on.
What they ask for
- 8+ years in security engineering, including 2+ years leading a team as a manager or tech lead.
- Experience owning compliance programs end to end (SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, or similar).
- Hands-on foundation in cloud security (AWS), identity and access management, application security, and vulnerability management.
- Experience with vendor risk management and reviewing security terms in customer and vendor contracts.
Nice to have
- Hospitality, fintech, or payments industry experience.
- CISSP, CISM, or CISA.
Tools
AWS, SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR/CCPA, ISO 27001
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