Security Engineering Leader

Security Engineering Leader Dallas, TX - Onsite 5 Days / Week $200,000 - $300,000 Salary + Equity Relocation support available About the Role We are seeking an experienced Security Engineering Director to lead a growing team of security engineers and architects.

This role plays a critical part in building, scaling, and embedding security practices across a global technology business.

You will oversee a team that drives both day-to-day cyber defense operations and long-term security architecture initiatives, ensuring our systems are robust, scalable, and future-ready.

What We’re Looking For We want someone who is both able to design and guide security solutions, while empowering the team to deliver.

You will thrive here if you are forward-looking, curious about new technologies, and comfortable working in an environment that blends traditional enterprise with modern cloud-native practices.

This is a unique opportunity for a hands-on leader who can balance technical depth with strong people management and strategic oversight.

Key ResponsibilitiesLead, mentor, and grow a team of security engineers and architectsOversee core functions including security engineering & solution design, incident response & threat modelling, identity and access management and automation to support scalable operations.Partner with IT, risk, and compliance functions to embed security across the businessProvide security architecture reviews for new applications, ensuring proper authentication, network configuration, and identity controlsDrive the adoption of cloud security best practices and modern DevSecOps approachesPrioritize workloads, orchestrate projects, and ensure data-driven decision-makingContribute to the long-term roadmap of security strategy, tooling, and organizational design.

About YouStrong technical mastery with broad security engineering expertise across multiple domains.Several years of management experience while being hands-on as a "player - coach"Cloud security expertise, ideally AWS (multi-cloud awareness is a plus)Tools & Tech: Splunk, SASE, role-based access control, DevSecOps, DAST/SAST