Head / Director of Security - Remote

Overview

The Head / Director of Security will be responsible for building and owning Cherry’s security function, ensuring the security of applications, cloud, infrastructure, and data as the company scales.

In Short

• Own application, cloud, infrastructure, and data security across Cherry.
• Be hands-on: design systems, review code and architecture, and contribute directly where needed.
• Lead incident response, threat modeling, and security reviews.
• Build and grow an elite security team doing high leverage technical work.
• Embed security into engineering workflows without slowing product velocity.

Requirements

• 8–12+ years in security engineering or security leadership.
• Strong hands-on background in modern cloud-native systems.
• Experience owning security for production systems at scale.
• Excellent engineering judgment and comfort making pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Prior experience building or scaling a security function is a plus.

Benefits

• Be part of a profitable, high-growth fintech.
• Opportunity to shape the security function from the ground up.
• Work in a deeply technical, hands-on role.
• Collaborate closely with engineering leadership.
• Contribute to a multi-product platform providing financial tools for medical practices.