Director of Security Engineering, Crusoe Energy Systems
$256-320k
Offers Restricted Stock Units and bonus
5 days a week in office
Clean computing infrastructure
Be an early applicant
Clean computing infrastructure
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$256-320k
Offers Restricted Stock Units and bonus
5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To align the future of computing with the future of the climate.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in security engineering, with at least 4+ years leading security teams
- Ability to think strategically, set a clear vision, make informed decisions, and guide the team towards achieving security objectives
- Proven track record of building, mentoring, and scaling high-performing security engineering teams that ship production-grade software or security tooling
- Hands-on experience with threat modeling, secure coding practices, and implementing authorization architectures that meet best practices
- Ability to make challenging security roadmap decisions in the absence of complete information
- Strong background securing cloud infrastructure technologies, including public and private cloud, virtualization, and containerization
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively engage with diverse stakeholders, present technical concepts, and build consensus
- Experience or desire to use GenAI to solve security challenges
What the job involves
- Crusoe is seeking a technical and experienced Director of Security Engineering to define and drive the security strategy and roadmap for Crusoe Cloud
- You will oversee product security, infrastructure security, and detection & response, while building and mentoring a world-class security engineering team
- This is a hands-on leadership position, requiring a strong partner across the company to integrate security by design and ensure Crusoe Cloud maintains the highest levels of resilience and trust
- You will foster an "engineering-first" security culture, where the team actively builds internal security tools and contributes security enhancements to internal software and capabilities that support our cloud platform
- Security Strategy & Architecture: Define and execute the vision and roadmap for the Security Engineering team with a focus on product security, infrastructure security, and detection engineering
- Team Leadership & Scaling: Recruit, develop, and mentor a world-class team of security engineers. You'll provide strong technical leadership while fostering a culture of collaboration, continual learning, innovation, and operational excellence
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner deeply with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Cloud Availability teams to embed a "security-first" culture. You'll ensure security is a core component of the entire product development lifecycle—from concept to launch
- Security Expertise: Serve as a security domain expert, providing guidance and communicating security risks and concepts to senior leadership, engineering teams, and other internal stakeholders
- AI Security Innovation: Champion and direct research into emerging threats against AI/ML systems. You'll ensure the team stays at the forefront of securing large-scale models and agentic systems, keeping our security posture ahead of the innovation curve
- Customer Trust & Advocacy: Act as a key security evangelist for the company. You'll engage directly with customers, partners, and auditors to build trust by clearly articulating our security posture, controls, and vision, turning security into a competitive advantage and a business enabler
- Security Operations & Incident Response: Lead and scale a global 24/7 detection and response function. You'll be responsible for deploying sophisticated automation, enhancing monitoring capabilities, and maturing incident response playbooks to handle complex threats in a distributed cloud environment
Our take
Methane, that is mostly generated by flaring in the oil and gas industry, is a major contributor to global warming - as are the carbon emissions produced by global computing (especially bitcoin mining.) Crusoe Energy Systems reduces flaring, and repurposes waste natural gas into energy for these processes, thus removing methane from the atmosphere and simultaneously reducing the carbon footprint of computing.
Crusoe's mobile data centers can be deployed to generate power from methane waste at its source. As well as its patented Digital Flare Mitigation system, Crusoe is also working to enable alternative revenue streams for renewable and clean energy projects, with the ultimate aim to run data centers on renewable energy.
The company has connections with Kraken Oil & Gas, Devon Energy, Enerplus, and more; and its computing power is used by institutes such as MIT. The rising pressure to take action on climate change, coupled with the need for high-energy computing as more infrastructure moves online, has placed it in a massive industry. With the capability of its systems to reduce the equivalent of 8,000 tonnes per year of CO2 and 2023 debt financing amounting to $200 million in investment, Crusoe Energy Systems is well positioned to make an impact and drive for further success.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2024
$600m
SERIES D
Apr 2022
$350m
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Stock options in a fast-growing, well-funded technology company
- Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Teladoc
- 401(k) with a 4% match
- Unlimited time off
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Tuition reimbursement
- Subscription to the Calm app
- Company paid commuter benefit; $100 per month
- Pet-friendly offices
Company HQ
LoDo, Denver, CO
Leadership
Cully Cavness
(President & COO)Started their career as an Energy Infrastructure Research Fellow before spending 3 years as a Business Development Manager at Recurrent Engineering and serving as CFO of Sword & Plough. They left their role as VP of Highlands Natural Resources to co-found Crusoe Energy Systems.
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