Security Engineer

About Us:

Trusted and loved by 25 million educators, students, and families worldwide, Seesaw is the only elementary learning experience platform, offering a suite of award-winning tools, resources, and curriculum for teachers to deliver joyful, inclusive instruction.  Through interactive lessons, digital portfolios, and two-way communication features, Seesaw keeps everyone in the learning loop by providing continuous visibility into the student's learning experience to support and celebrate their learning.

Our Mission:

Seesaw’s mission is to provide every elementary student with joyful and connected learning experiences that lay the foundation for success in life.

Role Overview:

As Seesaw continues to grow, security has become a core operational dependency rather than a support function. The Security Engineer will help scale our security foundations by embedding security practices directly into our infrastructure and development workflows.

This role bridges Engineering and Security: focusing on automation, enablement, and building the technical guardrails that let teams move quickly and safely.

You’ll work closely with Engineering and IT teams to design and implement secure and observable systems in AWS, and our corporate tooling. The ideal candidate is a hands-on builder who enjoys making complex security processes simple and reliable through automation.

• Key Day-to-Day Responsibilities: 
• Build and maintain automated security controls across AWS, CI/CD, and application infrastructure.
• Work closely with Engineering and external bug bounty participants to mitigate vulnerabilities in the Seesaw Learning platform.
• Make improvements to the Seesaw Learning platform codebase to support secure-by-default development.
• Improve our infrastructure by aiding in the development of our Infrastructure-As-Code configurations.
• Partner with Engineering to integrate scanning, alerting, and compliance checks into daily development workflows to shift security left.
• Improve observability and detection through enhanced logging, alerting, and vulnerability pipelines.
• Automate SOC 2 and risk-management evidence collection.
• Support internal teams with secure architecture guidance, threat modeling, and incident response readiness.
• Working Hours: This position follows a split schedule to best support our global teams and partners, with working hours from Sunday–Monday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM, and Tuesday–Thursday, 12:00 PM–8:00 PM (local time). Flexibility may occasionally be required to accommodate cross-time-zone collaboration.

• Must-Have Skills/Experience:
• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Security Engineering roles, ideally within a small or fast-growing company.
• Deep familiarity with AWS core services (IAM, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, ECS, Lambda, S3, KMS).
• Experience building or maintaining infrastructure with Troposphere, Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Proficiency with CI/CD automation tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar).
• Hands-on experience implementing security scanning for code, dependencies, and containers.
• Strong scripting ability in Python or Bash for automation and tooling.
• Strong time management and organizational skills; able to balance multiple priorities and projects effectively.
• Collaborative mindset and comfort working across distributed teams and time zones.

Compensation & Benefits:

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry. Salary is just one part of our total compensation package that includes perks & benefits, and development opportunities at Seesaw. Individual pay decisions are based on several factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, geography, and balancing internal equity relative to other Seesawers. It is our expectation that the majority of candidates who are offered roles at Seesaw will land well within our salary ranges based on these factors.

Benefits include: Health Insurance, Paid Holidays, Mindfulness First Sundays, Professional Development Stipend

Seesaw cares about building a diverse and inclusive team to better advocate for the needs of our incredibly diverse K-12 users.

Seesaw provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity/gender expression/transgender, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information/characteristics, marital status/registered domestic partner status, age, sexual orientation, or military or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Seesaw complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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