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Lead Security Engineer

United States

About Panorama:
Panorama Education is a fast-growing technology company focused on helping students achieve academic success and well-being. More than 2,000 K-12 school districts serving 15 million students across all 50 states have adopted Panorama to understand and support students across academics, attendance, behavior, and life skills development. School districts turn to Panorama's student support platform, research-backed surveys, and professional development to track progress toward strategic goals and improve student outcomes.

Panoramians can choose to work fully remote anywhere within the Continental United States.

About the role:

At Panorama, everyone is a leader in securing student data as part of our values of inclusivity and student impact. As a Lead Security Engineer on Panorama’s Platform Security Team, you will contribute insights to assess our risk posture, and lead defense-in-depth mitigations towards the top risks identified by the process. You will also work on fascinating and challenging projects, creating systems that empower tech teams to secure data more efficiently, like guardrails to reduce risks in generative AI capabilities, or bolstering, verifying and testing security controls on modern applications and cloud infrastructure to protect student data.

Responsibilities:

  • Deploy effective systemic security controls in AWS and web applications, ranging from code and access management down to the network and asset configuration (e.g. encryption enhancements)
  • Investigate and plan major projects on the platform security team – be the one that enables successful on-time delivery by seeing around corners and mapping out the important factors for key technical decisions
  • Foster operational excellence through least privilege access, incident response drills, process improvement, and robust solutions for monitoring, auditing and alerting
  • Keep confidentiality and “security by default” across Panorama’s platform, never putting developer ease or convenience over making a difference to the millions of students we serve
  • Partner with engineers, Tech Leads, and our amazing InfoSec and IT teams to build a shared understanding of how to move forward. 
  • Share your deep knowledge of security, technology, and best practices to support our policies, solve complex challenges, and help us consistently achieve our goals.
  • Design, write, test, review, debug, deploy, and adapt when occasionally frustrated by code or systems (with supports to grow your infrastructure and security skills with training, including hands-on)
  • Actively seek out and integrate the feedback from your teammates who have a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences so you can support inclusiveness, increase awareness, and build a better product

 

Our Ideal Candidate Has:

  • An inquisitive, proactive and collaborative mindset with strong attention to detail
  • A track record of coordinating a cross-functional team of engineers and non-engineers on high-impact projects - from the definition of technical scope to implementation details to safe releases and operations
  • Experience breaking down and shaping the scope of technical requirements of a series of several projects to help optimize for overall team delivery. 
  • Outstanding problem-solving abilities, with examples of overcoming challenges from real world applications of security or risk management frameworks
  • 7 years experience in software organizations, including 5 years specifically solving software security or cloud security challenges (security engineering, application security, identity & access management or similar)
  • Experience meeting compliance requirements (e.g. SOC2, ISO27001, FedRAMP or PCI) 
  • A knack for automation, with success stories of managing vulnerabilities effectively and hardening cloud security posture or applications (using tools like CSPM, SAST, DAST)
  • Active involvement in the information security community or a security certification (eg. Security+ or AWS Certified in Security) with examples of positive impact

The starting base salary for this role is $159,000.

The “Starting Base Salary” represents anticipated salary for this position across all US locations. The determination of this anticipated Base Salary involves the consideration of many factors in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: unique skill sets, experience, training, performance, licensure and certifications, as well as other business and organizational needs. Our anticipated Base Salary determination is just one component of Panorama’s competitive total rewards strategy that also includes annual bonus or commission awards, equity awards, as well as other region-specific health and welfare benefits

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