Sr. Director, Security Engineering

About the role

Pinterest is seeking a Senior Director of Security Engineering to serve as the CISO's operating partner and lead the engineering execution for the entire Product and Cloud Security areas of our information security program.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end security engineering organization spanning product security, application security, identity and access management, vulnerability management, security architecture, supply chain and AI/product-risk controls, and cloud infrastructure security.
• Define and drive Pinterest's multi-year security engineering roadmap; translate risk appetite and policy into executable, measurable engineering programs across product and infrastructure lifecycles.
• Serve as the executive owner of threat modeling, secure design review, and developer security enablement — embedding security as a first-class capability within Pinterest's engineering culture.
• Partner closely with VP-level engineering, product, and infrastructure leaders and teams to seamlessly integrate security into the software development lifecycle.
• Leverage relationships with strategic partners such as AWS to operate at the leading edge of cloud security best practices.
• Lead Pinterest's security privacy engineering function as a product-grade capability: privacy-by-design systems, data inventory and classification, consent and preference controls, data lifecycle and deletion.
• Drive the maturation of privacy engineering beyond compliance response — building reusable, scalable engineering primitives that make privacy-preserving development faster and safer across Pinterest's product surface area.
• Champion and evangelize foundational security platforms and libraries to ensure a secure production and data infrastructure. This includes adoption of enterprise grade IAM (e.g. machines, workloads, agents, users) systems, secrets management, network security and container security.
• Own Cloud Governance: Leads cloud security posture and governance. Define and enforce standards for IaC security, AWS resource provisioning, CI/CD pipeline security, and overall security policies.
• Direct the maturation of the Security Compliance & Accountability platform. Establish and enforce rigorous metrics across multiple focus areas, including AAA (Authentication, Authorization, Accounting) standards and automated vulnerability management.
• Serve as the CISO's primary operating partner: synthesizing complex security and risk narratives into concise executive communications, investment cases, and evidence of risk reduction for senior leadership and the board.
• Establish a unified operating system for security and privacy engineering — aligning roadmaps, service levels, prioritization, and success metrics across all domains under your ownership.
• Become a builder and developer of talent: you take genuine pride in the careers of the people on your team and in creating organizational clarity in complex, fast-moving environments.
• Clarify organizational structures and accountabilities, and establish a scalable talent model across a geographically distributed team.
• Shape Pinterest's approach to AI security — spanning both the security of AI-powered product surfaces and the application of AI/ML to improve operational efficiency, and threat response.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive experience in security engineering, with a career foundation in software engineering or security software engineering — you started writing code and have built your career from that craft.
• Deep, hands-on expertise in product security — secure design, application security, vulnerability management, and developer enablement — with the credibility to lead a team comprised predominantly of security software engineers.
• Meaningful experience in privacy engineering as a technical discipline, not just a compliance function; familiarity with privacy-by-design architectures and data lifecycle engineering.
• Proven track record managing large-scale security budgets and driving measurable, multi-year security programs from strategy through execution.
• Experience managing geographically distributed teams and stakeholders in a global environment.
• A builder and developer of talent: you take genuine pride in the careers of the people on your team and in creating organizational clarity in complex, fast-moving environments.
• Fluency in cloud security architecture (AWS preferred), application and product security, identity and access management, privacy-preserving systems, and modern detection and response engineering.
• Able to engage directly and credibly with senior security software engineers on technical design, architecture decisions, and engineering trade-offs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant field.

Skills

• Software Development
• Cloud Security
• Application Security
• Vulnerability Management
• Identity and Access Management
• Data Lifecycle Engineering
• Privacy Engineering
• Cloud Infrastructure Security
• Security Architecture
• Supply Chain Security
• AI/ML Security
• Threat Modeling
• Secure Design Review
• Developer Security Enablement
• Cloud Governance
• Security Compliance & Accountability
• Privacy-by-Design Systems
• Data Inventory and Classification
• Consent and Preference Controls
• Data Lifecycle and Deletion
• Foundation Security Platforms and Libraries
• Enterprise Grade IAM Systems
• Secrets Management
• Network Security
• Container Security
• Cloud Security Best Practices
• Strategic Partnerships
• Geographically Distributed Teams
• Talent Development
• Organizational Structures and Accountabilities
• AI Security

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$329,585—$576,774 USD

Schedule

Not specified.