Senior Security Engineer (Application & Cloud Security)
Company: MagicSchool AI
Location: United States (Remote)
Salary: $150,000 - $170,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-04-20
About this role
WHO WE ARE: MagicSchool is the premier generative AI platform for teachers. We're just over 2 years old, and more than 7 million teachers from all over the world have joined our platform. Join a top team at a fast growing company that is working towards real social impact. Make an account and try us out at our website and connect with our passionate community on our Wall of Love.
# Senior Security Engineer
## Role Description
As Senior Security Engineer (Application & Cloud Security), you will serve as the primary security enabler for our Engineering, Product, and Design teams - building the practices, tooling, and trust that allow developers to move fast without introducing risk. You'll report directly to the Director of IT and play a critical role in protecting the systems educators and students rely on every day.
MagicSchool is operating in a compliance-critical environment serving millions of educators and students. The security foundation is being actively built - not inherited - and this role is central to getting it right.
## Responsibilities
In this role, you will be responsible for driving towards the following outcomes:
- **Secure Development Lifecycle & Vulnerability Management:** Champion secure development practices including threat modeling, code reviews, and dependency monitoring. Lead the implementation and ongoing management of StackHawk and GitHub Advanced Security for automated scanning, triage emerging threats like compromised packages and zero-day disclosures, and build developer-friendly workflows that integrate security without sacrificing velocity.
- **Infrastructure & Architecture Security:** Partner with IT and engineering leadership to maintain core security infrastructure - including firewall management, content filtering, and privilege access controls. Serve as a trusted security advisor in architecture conversations, helping teams design systems that are secure by default across AWS, Google Cloud, and on-prem ...