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Senior Director, Security Engineering

United States of America (USA)

Remote | Full-Time

Lead Secure, Scalable Engineering at Modus Create

At Modus Create, we help organizations build modern platforms and products with confidence. As Senior Director of Security Engineering, you will lead and scale our Security Engineering capability—owning its vision, maturity, and impact across client delivery, internal operations, and long-term growth.

This role blends strategic leadership, deep technical credibility, and a consulting mindset, ensuring security is embedded into how we design, build, ship, and operate modern systems. You will guide Directors and senior practitioners, shape security strategy across platforms and products, and serve as a trusted advisor to executives, clients, and internal partners.

This role reports to a VP of Product Engineering Services and works closely with engineering, platform, delivery, sales, and operations leadership.

Key Responsibilities

Embed Security into Modern Delivery

  • Integrate security into development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Drive shift-left security practices in partnership with platform and product teams.
  • Ensure security tooling and controls enable delivery velocity rather than block it.
  • Promote secure-by-design patterns across cloud-native and platform environments.

Deliver Trusted, Secure Systems

  • Lead threat modeling, vulnerability management, and remediation planning across engagements.
  • Guide incident readiness, root cause analysis, and systemic risk reduction.
  • Ensure security risks are clearly articulated, prioritized, and addressed.
  • Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term security posture.

Lead & Grow Security Teams

  • Lead, mentor, and develop Directors and senior security practitioners.
  • Set clear expectations around ownership, quality, and professional growth.
  • Build leadership depth and succession to support scale.
  • Foster a culture of trust, accountability, and continuous learning.

Shape Security Strategy & Best Practices

  • Define and evolve security standards, frameworks, and reusable patterns.
  • Establish best practices for application, cloud, and platform security.
  • Ensure practices scale appropriately across clients and maturity levels.
  • Continuously improve security craft based on real delivery feedback.

Business Development & Client Advisory

  • Partner with Sales and Delivery to shape security-led solutions and proposals.
  • Serve as a senior security advisor in client conversations, workshops, and reviews.
  • Help position Modus as a trusted security and engineering partner.
  • Contribute to pipeline growth through solutioning and executive credibility.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Work closely with Engineering, Platform, Product, and Operations leaders.
  • Align security strategy with broader technical and delivery priorities.
  • Influence organizational practices around secure development and reliability.
  • Strengthen collaboration across capabilities to deliver cohesive outcomes.

What Sets You Apart

  • Empathetic Leader: 15+ years in security, software, or systems engineering roles, with 7+ years leading senior security engineers, managers, or Directors—ideally in global, distributed, or consulting environments.
  • Technical Depth: Hands-on experience with modern security engineering across application, cloud, and platform environments, including secure SDLC, CI/CD security, infrastructure-as-code, and threat modeling.
  • Business Savvy: Proven success supporting pre-sales, solutioning, and growing security-led engagements within enterprise or mid-market accounts.
  • Builder and Mentor: Demonstrated ability to build scalable security practices, uplift team capabilities, and develop high-performing, inclusive security engineering teams.
  • Client-Centric: Strong empathy for client risk, constraints, and delivery realities, with the ability to translate security needs into pragmatic, measurable outcomes.
  • Communicator & Collaborator: Effective across technical, executive, and cross-functional settings, with the ability to clearly articulate risk, tradeoffs, and recommendations to diverse stakeholders.

Technical Skills

  • Security Engineering: secure-by-design systems, threat modeling, risk assessment, vulnerability management, penetration testing, incident readiness and remediation
  • Cloud & Infrastructure Security: cloud security architecture, multi-account strategy, IAM, network security, shared services, secure landing zones
  • Application Security: secure SDLC, code review practices, dependency and supply-chain security, secrets management, configuration hardening
  • DevSecOps & CI/CD: security automation in CI/CD pipelines, policy enforcement, secure build and release practices, artifact integrity
  • Automation & IaC: infrastructure as code security, policy as code, configuration management, environment hardening
  • Detection & Response: logging and telemetry for security, threat detection strategies, incident response workflows, root cause analysis
  • Governance & Compliance: security controls, audit readiness, evidence-based reporting, risk management frameworks
  • Architecture & Systems: distributed systems security, scalability considerations, fault tolerance, integration patterns, system hardening

Tools & Platforms

  • Cloud Providers: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform
  • Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm
  • CI/CD & Automation: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation
  • Security Tooling: SAST, DAST, SCA platforms, secrets management tools, cloud-native security services
  • Identity & Access Management: cloud-native IAM tools, identity federation, access control systems
  • Observability & Detection: logging and monitoring platforms, SIEM and alerting tools
  • Collaboration & Delivery: Git-based workflows, issue tracking systems, documentation platforms

About Modus

Founded in 2011, Modus is a global, fully remote team of world-class technologists who thrive in a collaborative, innovative environment. We were fully remote before it was cool! We support organizations on their digital transformation journey through strategic consulting and full lifecycle product development, partnering with industry leaders including Atlassian, GitHub and AWS. Recognized as one of the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies for nine years and a top remote work company by FlexJobs, we have helped some of the world’s largest brands deliver powerful digital experiences.

We combine boutique expertise with enterprise-scale capabilities, helping organizations drive customer engagement, enhance retention, and maximize long-term value. As an award-winning Atlassian partner, we enable businesses to build customer-centric products that foster lasting relationships and adoption.

Perks of working with us:

  • Remote work with flexible working hours
  • Modus Global Office Program: for when you want to get out of your home, we offer on-demand access to private offices, meeting rooms, coworking spaces and business lounges in locations in over 120 countries. 
  • Employee Referral Program 
  • Client Referral Program 
  • Travel according to client or team needs
  • The chance to work side-by-side with thought leaders in emerging tech

Additional benefits might apply contingent on your location.

Why Modus Create

Modus Create is a global consulting firm that helps organizations modernize their platforms, products, and processes. From open-source roots to enterprise transformation, we bring together strategy, design, engineering, and AI to build what’s next.

  • 100% remote since day one
  • Named a top company for remote work by FlexJobs and Inc.



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