Clever
Senior Security Engineer
🇺🇸 Hybrid - San Francisco, CA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $145K - $226K
💻 Cybersecurity
🗓️ September 27th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Conduct risk-based security reviews and provide expertise to product and engineering teams
- Identify, remediate, and prevent vulnerabilities in application code
- Collaborate on design and development of security-sensitive code, including identity and authentication
- Evaluate third-party tools for compliance with security standards
- Ensure engineering compliance with privacy laws such as GDPR, CCPA, FERPA, and COPPA
- Automate security processes for Clever services using infrastructure tooling
- Manage bug bounty triage and remediation efforts
- Train engineers on secure coding practices and promote a security-first culture
- Required skills include knowledge of common security vulnerabilities, security libraries, and public cloud security controls
- 4+ years of security or software engineering experience with proven security expertise
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with a commitment to diversity and inclusion
- Salary range: $144,500 - $205,000 (other than NYC and SF), $159,000 - $225,500 (NYC and SF)
Senior Security Engineer Full Description
Clever is on a mission to connect every student, worldwide, to a world of learning. With our identity platform for education, we serve 77% of U.S. schools and over 1 million K12 students internationally. As a trusted partner for schools and educators, we provide secure, seamless access to digital learning tools that empower students everywhere. Clever, a Kahoot! Company, is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, but our impact extends far beyond. Learn more about us at www.clever.com.
As a security engineer at Clever, youâll be part of a small highly collaborative team that leads the efforts to secure our service, infrastructure, organization and protect our customers' data. We are looking for someone who understands how to scale application security efforts at a growing organization.
A DAY IN THE LIFE:
By joining the Security team, you will become part of an integral part of our products by securing customer data and improving security posture by working on projects like:
- Security reviews, where you provide risk-based security subject matter expertise to our product and engineering teams
- Vulnerability detection, remediation, and preventing - find and fix vulnerabilities in our application code
- Collaborate with engineering teams in designing and developing security-sensitive code, including identity and authentication protocol code
- Review third party tools used by the company to ensure that these tools are compliant with our security practices for the data they will host and process
- Ensuring that engineering systems are compliant with appropriate privacy laws and collaborating with legal team to establish privacy practice
- Infrastructure tooling to automate security for Clever services
- Triage and own remediations to submission to our bug bounty program
- Representing Clever in the security community to stay updated on vulnerabilities and threats
- Training engineers about secure coding practices and promote security in the company
- Responsible for helping stay compliant with all of our relevant compliance regimes like GDPR, CCPA, FERPA, COPPA. Along with support efforts to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant
We are focused on making sure we create systems and processes that allow all of Clever to create great products for teachers, students, guardians and district administrators ensuring that the data that we are custodians of are well protected. We use many AWS services (AWS WAF, IAM, Dynamo, Systems Manager Parameter Store, Route53, Cloudfront). We write frontend code in Node.js, TypeScript, and React and use Go for backend. These are some of the tools you will learn working in the security team and not something you need to know to join us.
WHAT WEâRE LOOKING FOR:
- 4+ years of experience as a security engineer or software engineer with demonstrable security experience
- Solid foundation in software engineering principles and proven experience in building applications
- In-depth knowledge of common security vulnerabilities, standard security libraries, and security controls for web applications within a public cloud environment
- Experience collaborating with engineering teams to conduct code reviews, architecture assessments, and design evaluations to identify and mitigate security risks
- Excellent communication skills and influential leadership skills
- The desire and ability to mentor and support engineers at all levels of experience
- Commitment to inclusion and belonging: Clever believes that the classrooms we serve and our companyâs halls should be spaces that are diverse and inclusive. We seek opportunities and celebrate actions that further allow us to build diverse teams, include every voice, and create a safe space for everyone to bring their authentic selves into the workplace
CLEVER BENEFITS AND PERKS:
- A competitive salary
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- Top-notch healthcare, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family
- Best-in-class mental healthcare service that supports employees' mental and emotional wellness
- A generous personal development yearly budget which can be used for courses, conferences, trainings, books, and more
- A comprehensive Learning & Development program that enables employees to enhance their skills, knowledge, and functional expertise
- Annual company and team events to connect with fun, bright coworkers
SALARY TRANSPARENCY:
The range of our base salary cash compensation for this role for candidates living in the United States, besides NYC and San Francisco, CA, is between $144,500 - $205,000. For candidates living in NYC and San Francisco, CA is between $159,000 - $225,500. All final offers are determined using multiple factors including experience and level of expertise.
Clever does not conduct interviews via text or Telegram. We will never ask for your financial information or reimbursement of equipment of any kind. If you receive any communications regarding employment with Clever that you think might be a scam, please email recruitingscam@clever.com.
If you are a resident of Colorado, please note you have the right to redact your age-related information like age, birth date, or dates of schooling.
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