In this role, you will be responsible for driving towards the following outcomes:
Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with IT and Compliance to support SOC 2, FERPA, and COPPA programs, and ensure engineering efforts stay aligned with our regulatory commitments.
Qualifications/Competencies/Skills
To be successful in this role, you'll bring the following skills and competencies:
Security Expertise & Tooling: Hands-on experience with SAST, DAST, and SCA tooling - ideally including StackHawk and GitHub Advanced Security - and cloud-native security within AWS and/or Google Cloud. Prior involvement in offensive security or red teaming.
Threat Modeling & Architecture: Strong experience conducting or facilitating threat modeling using formal frameworks (e.g., STRIDE, PASTA) or lightweight iterative approaches. Comfortable serving as a security advisor in live architecture conversations.
AI Application Security: Experience securing LLM-integrated or AI-powered products, with an understanding of the unique threat surfaces they introduce.
Communication & Influence: Ability to translate complex security topics for both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Skilled at building cross-functional trust and coaching engineers on security principles without compromising developer velocity.
Requirements
To be successful in this role, you'll bring the following experience and qualifications:
At least 5 years of experience in application or cloud security, with a track record of advancing security practices in fast-paced engineering environments.
Proven track recor
Additional Information
WHO WE ARE: MagicSchool is the premier generative AI platform for teachers. We're just over 2 years old, and more than 7 million teachers from all over the world have joined our platform. Join a top team at a fast growing company that is working towards real social impact. Make an account and try us out at our website and connect with our passionate community on our Wall of Love .
Senior Security Engineer
Role Description
As Senior Security Engineer (Application & Cloud Security), you will serve as the primary security enabler for our Engineering, Product, and Design teams - building the practices, tooling, and trust that allow developers to move fast without introducing risk. You'll report directly to the Director of IT and play a critical role in protecting the systems educators and students rely on every day.
MagicSchool is operating in a compliance-critical environment serving millions of educators and students. The security foundation is being actively built - not inherited - and this role is central to getting it right.
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