Director of Platform Security Engineering

🔐 Director of Platform Security Engineering | Remote, United States | Pax8

Join Pax8 as our Director of Platform Security Engineering and lead the strategy, innovation, and execution of platform security across one of the world's fastest-growing cloud technology marketplaces.

Shape the Future of Secure Innovation

This is a rare opportunity to build and evolve security at scale while influencing how modern cloud platforms are developed, protected, and operated. You'll lead a high-impact function at the intersection of cloud security, engineering excellence, artificial intelligence, and product innovation.

As Pax8 continues its evolution toward an AI-enabled future, you'll help ensure security remains embedded into every stage of the development lifecycle, empowering teams to move quickly, confidently, and securely. You'll work alongside exceptional engineers, security specialists, and technology leaders while building the foundations that protect our partners, customers, and business.

Why Pax8?

Pax8 is transforming the way technology is bought, sold, and managed. Through our cloud marketplace, we connect managed service providers with world-class technology vendors, helping small and medium-sized businesses unlock the power of modern technology.

As part of our continued growth, we're investing heavily in platform innovation, automation, and AI-driven capabilities. That means security leadership has never been more important. Here, you'll have the opportunity to influence strategy, shape engineering culture, and drive measurable business outcomes while working remotely from anywhere in the United States.

What You'll Be Doing

🚀 Lead Security Strategy

• Establish and execute a comprehensive platform security vision aligned with business objectives and risk management priorities.
• Define long-term security roadmaps that support product innovation and scalable growth.
• Champion a culture where security is viewed as an accelerator rather than a blocker.

☁️ Strengthen Cloud Platform Security

• Own the security posture of cloud-native platforms, services, data, and infrastructure.
• Drive continuous improvements to security architecture, controls, and operational resilience.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and adopt practices that improve security effectiveness.

🔍 Embed Security into Engineering

• Integrate security practices seamlessly throughout software delivery processes.
• Guide engineering teams through secure design, threat assessment, testing, validation, and deployment activities.
• Ensure secure coding principles and security standards are consistently applied across development initiatives.

🛡️ Advance Secure Services Delivery

• Partner with professional services and engineering teams to ensure secure software development and maintenance practices.
• Establish repeatable security frameworks that support both internal and customer-facing solutions.

📊 Measure and Improve

• Develop meaningful security metrics, reporting frameworks, and executive dashboards.
• Use data-driven insights to continually assess risk, improve controls, and demonstrate program effectiveness.

⚡ Respond and Adapt

• Provide leadership during security incidents and emerging threats.
• Drive continuous learning and readiness through proactive risk identification and mitigation.

🌟 Build and Develop High-Performing Teams

• Recruit, mentor, and empower security and engineering professionals.
• Foster an environment of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Develop future leaders while creating a strong, inclusive, high-performing culture.

What Success Looks Like

You'll create lasting impact by enabling secure innovation across Pax8's technology ecosystem. Your leadership will help engineering teams deliver faster, reduce risk, improve resilience, and strengthen trust with partners and customers. Success in this role means building security capabilities that scale alongside our ambitious growth plans while empowering teams to do their best work.

What We're Looking For

We're excited to meet candidates who bring

• Demonstrated expertise leading platform, application, or product security programs within complex technology environments.
• Extensive experience embedding security practices into modern software delivery and engineering workflows.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, secure development methodologies, and DevOps operating models.
• Proven capability implementing and optimizing security tooling across application, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of threat modeling, vulnerability management, security testing, and secure software engineering principles.
• Experience leveraging security analytics, operational metrics, and risk-based decision-making to drive improvements.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence technical and executive audiences alike.
• A collaborative leadership style with a passion for mentoring and developing high-performing teams.
• The ability to thrive in a fast-moving, evolving environment while balancing strategic vision with operational execution.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline or equivalent professional experience.

Trust and Hiring

At Pax8, we care deeply about building genuine, trust based relationships — starting with how we hire.

To protect our business, our teams, and our customers, we use a range of measures throughout the recruitment process to help confirm authenticity and prevent fraud. These safeguards are designed to be fair, respectful, and proportionate, and may evolve as risks change. By applying, you acknowledge that we take steps to verify identity and representation during hiring. If you're applying as your authentic self, you have nothing to worry about — we're excited to meet you.

We also use thoughtfully applied AI-enabled tools to support our hiring process. These tools may assist with tasks such as reviewing or prioritising applications, but hiring decisions