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The Director, Cybersecurity Engineering leads the engineering organization responsible for creating, protecting, distributing, rotating, and retiring cryptographic material. You will manage managers and senior engineers across public key infrastructure, certificate lifecycle management, key management, and HSM platforms. Your daily responsibilities include driving the multi-year security strategy, overseeing cryptographic libraries, secrets management, and the enterprise crypto-agility and post-quantum readiness program. You will build automated systems for ACME and API-driven issuance while ensuring compliance with PCI DSS, SOC 2, and FIPS 140-2/140-3 standards. The role requires expertise in TLS, trust stores, and key hierarchies to solve complex security challenges. You will provide strategic counsel to executives, managing large-scale migrations and representing the cryptography field to the CISO's leadership team to ensure uninterrupted payment availability.
Lead a multi-team organization of managers and engineers across PKI, key management, and cryptographic services.
Own the multi-year roadmap for certificate lifecycle management, HSM platforms, and secrets management.
Drive the enterprise crypto-agility and post-quantum readiness program from inventory to migration.
Push for automated certificate operations using ACME, API-driven issuance, and self-service onboarding.
Provide strategic counsel to senior executives on multi-year security strategies and technology roadmaps.
Hire, develop, and retain cryptographic engineering talent while building succession plans for the organization.
Lead cryptography-related incidents and regulatory examinations including PCI DSS and SOC 2 compliance.
Represent the cryptography organization to the CISO and business executives on industry standards and risks.
What we're looking for
10+ years of relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
2 years of experience leading others.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience (preferred).
Roughly 12+ years in software, platform, or security engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering teams and experience leading other managers (preferred).
Ownership of production cryptographic infrastructure at enterprise scale, PKI, certificate lifecycle management, key management, HSMs, or cryptographic services (preferred).
Applied fluency in TLS and trust stores, key hierarchies and rotation, and HSM integration (preferred).
Experience running platforms under regulatory scrutiny, such as PCI DSS, SOC 2, FIPS 140-2/140-3, or comparable (preferred).
Track record of large migrations across many dependent teams and strong communication skills to translate technical risks for executives (preferred).