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Director, Security Engineering

Instructure · US-REMOTE · Remote

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About Instructure

Empower learning with Instructure’s LMS and edtech solutions for K–12, higher education, and businesses. Discover Canvas, Impact, and Mastery to drive success. Backed by Bessemer and Insight.

About the role

We do this by giving smart, creative, passionate people opportunities to create awesome. And that's where you come in: The Director, Security Engineering owns how Instructure builds and runs securely. The role leads three core functions: product security, embedded in R&D teams, cloud and infrastructure security across AWS, and AI security. It also owns security architecture standards, vulnerability management, and edge security. Reports to the CISO. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

More about this role

At Instructure , we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives. Our goal is to amplify that power by creating intuitive products that simplify learning and personal development, facilitate meaningful relationships, and inspire people to go further in their education and careers.

We do this by giving smart, creative, passionate people opportunities to create awesome. And that's where you come in:

The Director, Security Engineering owns how Instructure builds and runs securely. The role leads three core functions: product security, embedded in R&D teams, cloud and infrastructure security across AWS, and AI security. It also owns security architecture standards, vulnerability management, and edge security. Reports to the CISO.

Lead product security: threat modeling, design review, and the release gate. The team works inside R&D teams on a dotted line.

Approve standard product launches and own pen test and bug bounty intake.

Lead cloud and infrastructure security: IAM, AWS guardrails, infrastructure as code, patch policy, secrets rotation, and privileged and non-human access.

Own the WAF standard and approve WAF rule changes and patch window changes

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