Senior Security Engineer

The Senior Security Engineer role at College Board involves ensuring systems follow established best practices, managing security-focused technologies, and configuring non-security-focused applications to reduce risk. The role combines hands-on security engineering with collaborative governance, and the ideal candidate will have 7+ years of experience in security engineering, application security, cloud security, or security architecture.

Requirements

• 7+ years in security engineering, application security, cloud security, or security architecture, with demonstrated ownership of work that scales across multiple teams.
• Practical experience assessing and securing systems, including application-layer risks, data exposure concerns, and common misuse scenarios.
• Practical experience securing modern software systems (APIs, cloud services, CI/CD) and applying those security fundamentals.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where standards, tooling, and processes are still being defined and refined.
• Strong ability to influence and drive change across organizations, balancing speed of delivery with clear guardrails and measurable risk reduction.
• Experience partnering with non-security stakeholders (e.g., product, legal, risk, procurement, operations) to translate security requirements into practical, adoptable guidance.
• Confidence presenting security requirements and tradeoffs to stakeholders, and turning ambiguous problems into repeatable processes and standards.
• Effective communicator and technical leader, able to provide actionable feedback, mentor peers and junior engineers, and participate in interviews to evaluate engineering talent.
• Ability to travel 3–5 times per year to College Board offices.
• Authorization to work in the United States.

Benefits

• Comprehensive package designed to help you thrive
• Fair and competitive compensation
• Meaningful career
• Supportive team
• Thoughtful approach to compensation