Remote Director Of Security Jobs
Remote Director Of Security jobs are open across the U.S. in sectors including cybersecurity, financial services, healthcare technology, and enterprise software, where distributed teams need senior security leadership. Companies actively hiring remotely include EDB, YELLO, and Sysdig. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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About Us
At SimplePractice, we are improving access to quality care by equipping health and wellness clinicians with all the tools they need to thrive in private practice.
More than 250,000 providers trust SimplePractice to build their business through our industry-leading software with powerful tools that simplify every part of practice management. From admin work to clinical care, our suite of innovative solutions work together to reduce administrative burden—empowering solo and small group practitioners to thrive alongside their clients.
Award-winning and people-first, SimplePractice is shaping the future of health tech. In 2026, we were recognized by BuiltIn as a Best Remote Company to Work For, Software Guru's Best Places to Code, Becker Healthcare Telehealth Companies to Know, and we won a MedTech Breakthrough Award for Best Practice Management Solution Provider.
The Role
We're looking for a Director of Security to build and lead the team responsible for protecting SimplePractice's cloud infrastructure, corporate systems, and security operations. Reporting to the CISO, you'll own our security engineering strategy, have direct influence over our vendor and tooling budget, and own execution across cloud security, vulnerability management, incident response, detection engineering, identity security, and AI-driven automation.
This is a hands-on leadership opportunity for someone who combines deep technical expertise with exceptional people skills. You'll build a team, establish their direction, and partner with leaders across the business to build practical security solutions that protect our customers without slowing down innovation.We're looking for someone who builds relationships as naturally as they solve technical problems, leads through influence rather than authority, and believes great security is a shared responsibility.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead a high-performing security engineering team, initially hiring, mentoring, and developing two senior security engineers.
- Define and own the strategy, priorities, and outcomes for security engineering, including cloud and infrastructure security, vulnerability management, security operations, and incident response.
- Strengthen detection, monitoring, and response capabilities to improve our ability to identify and respond to security threats.
- Partner with IT and Engineering to improve identity and access management, endpoint security, cloud security posture, and infrastructure security while supporting compliance requirements such as HIPAA and SOC 2.
- Build trusted relationships across Engineering, Product, IT, Legal, Compliance, and other business functions, influencing security outcomes through collaboration and technical credibility.
- Develop a risk-based security engineering roadmap that prioritizes meaningful improvements to customer trust, resilience, and security posture.
- Drive AI-driven automation and engineering best practices that reduce manual effort, improve security effectiveness, and enable teams to operate securely at scale.
- Establish clear ownership, measurable outcomes, and a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and shared responsibility for security.
- Manage the security tooling and vendor budget, ensuring cost efficiency, optimized vendor relationships, and high ROI on security investments.
- Oversee incident response operational readiness, participating in and shaping on-call rotations to maintain rapid incident detection and mitigation capabilities.
- Serve as a senior technical advisor to the CISO and business leaders, translating complex security challenges into clear, actionable recommendations, influencing technical strategy and organizational risk decisions.
Desired Skills and Experience
- Extensive experience in security engineering, infrastructure security, or security operations, including leadership of technical teams and security programs.
- Deep technical expertise in AWS security, vulnerability management, incident response, detection engineering, and modern security architecture.
- Demonstrated success building, mentoring, and developing high-performing security engineering teams.
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven ability to build trust and influence stakeholders at all levels of an organization.
- Experience collaborating across Engineering, IT, Product, and business teams to implement practical, scalable security solutions.
- Strong technical judgment with the ability to balance security risks, business priorities, and engineering complexity.
- Experience with cloud security platforms, endpoint protection, identity management, security monitoring, AI-driven automation tools, and compliance frameworks such as HIPAA and HITRUST.
- A hands-on, collaborative leadership style with the ability to set strategic direction while remaining technically engaged.
- A pragmatic, business-oriented approach to security that emphasizes partnership, accountability, and measurable risk reduction.
Benefits
We offer a competitive benefits program including:
- Medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Flexible Time Off (FTO), wellbeing days, paid holidays, and summer Fridays
- Mental health resources
- Paid parental leave & Backup Care
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
California Job Applicant Privacy Notice
Thank you for your interest in opportunities at SimplePractice LLC ("SimplePractice" or "us" or "we" or "our"). Please note that when you submit your resume or application materials to us for employment purposes, you are subject to the SimplePractice California Job Applicant Privacy Notice.
For more information about our privacy practices, please contact us at privacy@simplepractice.com.
Notice to Candidates
SimplePractice has been made aware of fraudulent job postings and unaffiliated third parties posing as our recruiting team. We do not have any affiliation or connection to these situations and only post open roles on our official Careers page (simplepractice.com/careers) and reputable job boards like our official LinkedIn or Indeed pages.
All official SimplePractice recruitment emails will be sent from the domains @simplepractice.com, no-reply@greenhouse.io or no‑reply@linkedin.com email addresses.
Examples of fraudulent domains include careers-simplepractice.com, simplepractices.com, and simplepractice.careers.
Please note that SimplePractice will never ask candidates or new hires for money or payment of any kind at any stage of the recruitment or onboarding process.
About Us
At SimplePractice, we are improving access to quality care by equipping health and wellness clinicians with all the tools they need to thrive in private practice.
More than 250,000 providers trust SimplePractice to build their business through our industry-leading software with powerful tools that simplify every part of practice management. From admin work to clinical care, our suite of innovative solutions work together to reduce administrative burden—empowering solo and small group practitioners to thrive alongside their clients.
Award-winning and people-first, SimplePractice is shaping the future of health tech. In 2026, we were recognized by BuiltIn as a Best Remote Company to Work For, Software Guru's Best Places to Code, Becker Healthcare Telehealth Companies to Know, and we won a MedTech Breakthrough Award for Best Practice Management Solution Provider.
The Role
We're looking for a Director of Security to build and lead the team responsible for protecting SimplePractice's cloud infrastructure, corporate systems, and security operations. Reporting to the CISO, you'll own our security engineering strategy, have direct influence over our vendor and tooling budget, and own execution across cloud security, vulnerability management, incident response, detection engineering, identity security, and AI-driven automation.
This is a hands-on leadership opportunity for someone who combines deep technical expertise with exceptional people skills. You'll build a team, establish their direction, and partner with leaders across the business to build practical security solutions that protect our customers without slowing down innovation.We're looking for someone who builds relationships as naturally as they solve technical problems, leads through influence rather than authority, and believes great security is a shared responsibility.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead a high-performing security engineering team, initially hiring, mentoring, and developing two senior security engineers.
- Define and own the strategy, priorities, and outcomes for security engineering, including cloud and infrastructure security, vulnerability management, security operations, and incident response.
- Strengthen detection, monitoring, and response capabilities to improve our ability to identify and respond to security threats.
- Partner with IT and Engineering to improve identity and access management, endpoint security, cloud security posture, and infrastructure security while supporting compliance requirements such as HIPAA and SOC 2.
- Build trusted relationships across Engineering, Product, IT, Legal, Compliance, and other business functions, influencing security outcomes through collaboration and technical credibility.
- Develop a risk-based security engineering roadmap that prioritizes meaningful improvements to customer trust, resilience, and security posture.
- Drive AI-driven automation and engineering best practices that reduce manual effort, improve security effectiveness, and enable teams to operate securely at scale.
- Establish clear ownership, measurable outcomes, and a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and shared responsibility for security.
- Manage the security tooling and vendor budget, ensuring cost efficiency, optimized vendor relationships, and high ROI on security investments.
- Oversee incident response operational readiness, participating in and shaping on-call rotations to maintain rapid incident detection and mitigation capabilities.
- Serve as a senior technical advisor to the CISO and business leaders, translating complex security challenges into clear, actionable recommendations, influencing technical strategy and organizational risk decisions.
Desired Skills and Experience
- Extensive experience in security engineering, infrastructure security, or security operations, including leadership of technical teams and security programs.
- Deep technical expertise in AWS security, vulnerability management, incident response, detection engineering, and modern security architecture.
- Demonstrated success building, mentoring, and developing high-performing security engineering teams.
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven ability to build trust and influence stakeholders at all levels of an organization.
- Experience collaborating across Engineering, IT, Product, and business teams to implement practical, scalable security solutions.
- Strong technical judgment with the ability to balance security risks, business priorities, and engineering complexity.
- Experience with cloud security platforms, endpoint protection, identity management, security monitoring, AI-driven automation tools, and compliance frameworks such as HIPAA and HITRUST.
- A hands-on, collaborative leadership style with the ability to set strategic direction while remaining technically engaged.
- A pragmatic, business-oriented approach to security that emphasizes partnership, accountability, and measurable risk reduction.
Benefits
We offer a competitive benefits program including:
- Medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Flexible Time Off (FTO), wellbeing days, paid holidays, and summer Fridays
- Mental health resources
- Paid parental leave & Backup Care
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
California Job Applicant Privacy Notice
Thank you for your interest in opportunities at SimplePractice LLC ("SimplePractice" or "us" or "we" or "our"). Please note that when you submit your resume or application materials to us for employment purposes, you are subject to the SimplePractice California Job Applicant Privacy Notice.
For more information about our privacy practices, please contact us at privacy@simplepractice.com.
Notice to Candidates
SimplePractice has been made aware of fraudulent job postings and unaffiliated third parties posing as our recruiting team. We do not have any affiliation or connection to these situations and only post open roles on our official Careers page (simplepractice.com/careers) and reputable job boards like our official LinkedIn or Indeed pages.
All official SimplePractice recruitment emails will be sent from the domains @simplepractice.com, no-reply@greenhouse.io or no‑reply@linkedin.com email addresses.
Examples of fraudulent domains include careers-simplepractice.com, simplepractices.com, and simplepractice.careers.
Please note that SimplePractice will never ask candidates or new hires for money or payment of any kind at any stage of the recruitment or onboarding process.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote director of security jobs.
- Ten or more years of progressive security operations or law enforcement leadership experience
- Certified Protection Professional (CPP) designation from ASIS International
- Experience developing and implementing enterprise-wide physical security programs
- Proficiency with access control and video surveillance platforms such as Genetec or Lenel
- Bachelor's degree in criminal justice, security management, or a related field
- Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional incident response and crisis communication
Tips for Your Remote Director Of Security Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote director of security openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly without sorting through mixed location listings.
Prove async leadership in your application materials
Remote employers want evidence you can run a security program without daily in-person check-ins. Include specific examples of written security policies, async incident response runbooks, or distributed team initiatives you led from start to finish.
Show measurable security program outcomes
Remote hiring managers can't observe your work style firsthand, so documented results carry extra weight. Quantify risk reduction, audit outcomes, compliance milestones, or response time improvements you drove in previous roles to make your impact concrete.
Target companies with distributed security teams
Remote director of security roles cluster at cloud-native firms, remote-first SaaS companies, and managed security service providers. Focusing on employers whose entire security function is distributed increases your chances of finding a role built for remote work rather than adapted from an on-site structure.
Remote Director Of Security Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote director of security job?
Target remote-first technology companies, managed security service providers, and cloud-native firms, which hire directors of security remotely far more often than traditional enterprises. Remote employers screen hard for async written communication, self-directed decision-making under ambiguity, and the ability to lead distributed security teams without in-person oversight. Candidates who document past incident response outcomes, cross-functional program leadership, and measurable risk reduction stand out most.
Which companies hire remote director of securitys?
Remote director of security roles are posted by EDB, YELLO, and Sysdig and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These tend to be remote-first technology firms, SaaS companies, and financial services organizations whose distributed workforces make centralized, location-independent security leadership a practical necessity.
Can you get a remote director of security job with no experience?
Yes, but entry-level remote director of security roles are rare because the position demands independent judgment from day one, with no in-office manager nearby to provide guidance. Candidates without direct director-level experience can strengthen their case by building a portfolio of security program documentation, leading open-source or volunteer security initiatives, and earning recognized certifications such as CISSP or CISM that signal readiness for senior remote responsibility.
Do you need a degree for remote director of security jobs?
Not always. Remote employers in cybersecurity and technology consistently weigh demonstrated program leadership, certifications, and measurable security outcomes alongside formal education. A candidate who can show they built or scaled a security program, reduced organizational risk, and communicated findings to executive stakeholders will often be competitive even without a four-year degree, particularly at remote-first companies that prioritize results over credentials.
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