Director, Security

The role

The Director of Security will lead and scale the security organization. This person owns the end-to-end security posture of the cloud platform, infrastructure, and corporate environments.

What you will do

• Lead the security organization across Cloud Security, Application Security, SecOps, and GRC.
• Partner with GTM and Legal to achieve and maintain compliance certifications like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA.
• Hire, mentor, and grow security managers and senior ICs.
• Embed security into the engineering lifecycle through SSDLC, threat modeling, and architecture reviews.
• Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting systems and lead the incident response program.
• Act as an executive sponsor for customer security conversations and manage third-party vendor risk.
• Invest in security automation and integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Provide security oversight for infrastructure systems including GPU clusters and network perimeters.
• Coordinate with Infra/SRE teams for secure infrastructure provisioning and network isolation.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years leading security teams including managers and/or multiple squads.
• Proven record of securing high-scale cloud platforms or infrastructure products.
• Demonstrated ability to take complex security goals from concept through execution.
• 8+ years building and securing SaaS, platforms, or IaaS products.
• Deep technical understanding of modern cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes, Linux OS security, networking, and virtualization.
• Experience building culture, accountability, and momentum across distributed teams.
• Strong use of operational security metrics.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Strong stakeholder management.
• Ability to translate complex security risks into actionable business decisions.
• Successful completion of a background check.
• Must be eligible to work in the United States.

Nice to have

• Experience securing cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, distributed compute, or bare-metal environments used by technical customers.
• Expertise with AI/ML specific security challenges, including model protection, tenant isolation in GPU clusters, and secure data pipelines.
• Track record of scaling security teams and compliance programs (SOC 2, ISO 27001) in high-growth, fast-paced startup environments.
• Active contributions to the open-source security community or industry-recognized security research.

Benefits

• Meaningful equity in the form of stock options
• Generous medical, dental & vision plans
• Flexible PTO
• $1,200 Home Office & Equipment Stipend

Before you apply

• Successful completion of a background check
• Currently unable to sponsor employment visas

About the company

Runpod is the AI Developer Cloud used by more than one million developers to experiment, train, fine-tune, deploy, and scale AI. It is a small, remote-first team.