Security Engineering Director

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

• Own the end-to-end security engineering organization spanning product security, application security, identity and access management, vulnerability management, security architecture, supply chain and AI/product-risk controls, and cloud infrastructure security.
• Define and drive Pinterest's multi-year security engineering roadmap; translate risk appetite and policy into executable, measurable engineering programs.
• Serve as the executive owner of threat modeling, secure design review, and developer security enablement.
• Partner closely with VP-level engineering, product, and infrastructure leaders to integrate security into the software development lifecycle.
• Lead Pinterest's security privacy engineering function as a product-grade capability.
• Drive the maturation of privacy engineering beyond compliance response.
• Champion and evangelize foundational security platforms and libraries.
• Own Cloud Governance: define and enforce standards for IaC security, AWS resource provisioning, CI/CD pipeline security.
• Direct the maturation of the Security Compliance & Accountability platform.
• Serve as the CISO's primary operating partner.
• Build deep, trusted partnerships with Engineering, Product, Legal/Privacy, Trust & Safety, IT, Internal Audit, and Data leadership.
• Establish a unified operating system for security and privacy engineering.
• Build and strengthen a high-performing global leadership bench.
• Shape Pinterest's approach to AI security.

• 15+ years of progressive experience in security engineering, with a career foundation in software engineering or security software engineering.
• Demonstrated experience leading a large, multi-domain security engineering organization (30+ engineers) at a B2C consumer internet platform of comparable scale.