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The VP of Security Engineering is the senior leader accountable for building and operating the engineering capabilities that keep the company’s products, platforms, and internal systems secure at scale. This role sets the security engineering strategy, leads multiple security engineering teams (e.g., Product Security/AppSec, Cloud Security, Security Platform/Automation, and Identity engineering), and ensures security is embedded into the company’s software delivery and infrastructure lifecycle.

The **Head of Security Engineering** owns the strategy, execution, and evolution of the organization’s security engineering capability, ensuring products, platforms, and internal systems are designed, built, and operated securely at scale. This role leads a team responsible for preventative security controls (secure-by-design), detection and response engineering, vulnerability and exposure management, and security tooling/automation integrated into the software delivery lifecycle.

The Director of Privacy Engineering leads the strategy, architecture, and delivery of privacy-by-design capabilities across a software company’s products, platforms, and internal systems. This role builds and operates a privacy engineering program that turns legal/privacy requirements into scalable technical controls—minimizing data collection, strengthening user choice and transparency, and reducing privacy risk without blocking product delivery.