Lead Security Engineer
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What You’ll Do
Lead, coach, and grow the Security team, including hiring, performance, priorities, and career development.
- Own Canary's security and compliance program (SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR/CCPA, and other applicable frameworks).
- Serve as the primary security point of contact for Canary.
- Own vendor and third-party risk management.
- Write, maintain, and communicate security policies and standards company-wide; run security awareness and training.
- Set technical direction for security tooling and stay hands-on in architecture and threat-model reviews.
What We’re Looking For
Canary Technologies is hiring a Lead Security Engineer to lead our Security team within the Platform organization. This is a player-coach role:
- 8+ years in security engineering, including 2+ years leading a team as a manager or tech lead.
- Proven experience owning compliance programs end to end (SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, or similar).
- Exceptional written and verbal communication.
- Hands-on technical foundation in cloud security (AWS), identity and access management, application security, and vulnerability management.
- Experience with vendor risk management and reviewing security terms in customer and vendor contracts.
- Track record of building pragmatic, risk-based security programs at a growth-stage SaaS company.
- Nice to have: hospitality, fintech, or payments industry experience; CISSP, CISM, or CISA certifications.
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View Company ProfileCanary Technologies (operating at canarytechnologies.com) is a hospitality software platform engineered for improving the guest experience, streamlining operations, and boosting revenue. Founded in 2018 by Harman Narula and SJ Sawhney, Canary Technologies is headquartered in Not specified. Canary Technologies brings paper-based workflows in hospitality online, providing simple and secure solutions to hoteliers. Under the hood, the company's AI-powered Guest Journey Platform modernizes the hotel tech stack. This allows hotels worldwide to enhance guest interactions and operational efficiency. Backed by an $80 million Series D round of funding.
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