Security Engineering Director

The role

The Director of Security Engineering will set the security direction across the product, platform, and cloud estate. You will build and lead a team to tackle systemic problems and embed security into the software lifecycle.

What you will do

• Define the security standard across product, platform, and customer commitments
• Set the roadmap and investment priorities
• Partner with the CTO and engineering leadership on architecture and technical direction
• Build tools, paved paths, and secure defaults
• Embed security into the software lifecycle through reviews, standards, and automation
• Drive areas such as secrets management, workload identity, and Kubernetes hardening
• Build automated detection and response
• Own incident playbooks, exercises, and investigations
• Threat-model the multi-tenant AI platform and define safe boundaries for coding agents
• Hire and develop senior security engineers

Required qualifications

• Led and scaled a security engineering function through rapid product and team growth
• Engineering background rather than a purely corporate infosec or compliance background
• Strong architectural judgement and experience influencing technical direction at scale
• Understand application security, detection engineering, and cloud and platform security
• Can operate as a peer to the engineering leadership
• Communicate clearly and translate risk into engineering terms

Nice to have

• Experience securing LLM-based or agentic products
• Experience building security at a high-growth SaaS company
• Depth in more than one security specialisation
• Experience with strict data confidentiality, data residency, or professional secrecy requirements
• Experience representing security externally with enterprise customers, through research, or speaking

About the company

Legora is an AI-native workspace for legal professionals. The company has 2,100+ customers across 80+ countries and has scaled to $200M+ in ARR.