Founding Security Engineer & IT Leader
openedBrooklyn (NY)
About the role
OpenEd is seeking the founding Security Engineer to build and lead our security program, owning IT, identity, and compliance. You will help safeguard a platform serving 100,000 students, providing essential protections for data and trust across families and educators.
You'll own four programs end-to-end: Identity & access, Corporate IT security, Compliance (SOC 2, FERPA/COPPA/state privacy), and Application security, partnering with engineering to drive remediation, audits, and secure, scalable
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