Clinical Research Coordinator

Startresearch · Los Angeles, California

The role

This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for establishing and maturing the application security program across Faria's suite of education products. The role involves defining secure SDLC practices, selecting and integrating security tooling, managing vulnerabilities, and improving cloud security posture. The position reports to the VP of Engineering and partners with the vCISO and DevOps teams.

Location
Los Angeles, California
Level
Senior
Experience
7+ yrs

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About Startresearch

Faria Education Group provides integrated SaaS solutions for international schools, including curriculum management, teaching and learning, admissions, and school-to-home communications. Their products support over 10,000 schools and 4 million students across 155 countries.

What you would do

  • Conduct initial security assessment and prioritize risks
  • Establish and own application security program across all products
  • Define and embed secure software development lifecycle practices
  • Select and deploy AppSec tooling integrated into CI/CD
  • Implement secrets management with detection and rotation
  • Build risk-based vulnerability management and drive remediation

Must have

  • 7+ years in application or product security
  • Experience standing up or maturing an AppSec program
  • Strong AI knowledge and curiosity for proactive protection
  • Comfortable as founding hands-on solo security function
  • Self-directed and pragmatic under ambiguity
  • Breadth across Ruby on Rails, PHP/Laravel, .NET/C#, Python
  • Deep expertise in one or two of those stacks
  • Strong cloud security across AWS and Azure
  • Deep grasp of common vulnerability classes
  • Hands-on with AppSec tooling and CI/CD integration
  • Threat-modeling experience
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills

Nice to have

  • GitHub Advanced Security experience
  • Worked with student data or PII-heavy regulated environments
  • Experience with FERPA, COPPA, or GDPR for UK/EU students
  • Proven experience managing large vulnerability backlogs
  • Ability to classify and deduplicate vulnerabilities across repositories

What you get

  • Competitive compensation and career development opportunities
  • Online learning platform and unlimited book purchases
  • Diverse internal and external training programs
  • Friendly atmosphere with group activities and corporate events
  • MacBook Pro or laptop of your specification with peripherals

Experience and education

  • 7+ years of relevant experience

Key skills

  • application security
  • appsec
  • sast
  • dast
  • sca
  • secrets scanning
  • devsecops
  • ci/cd
  • ruby on rails
  • php
  • laravel
  • .net
  • c#
  • python
  • aws
  • azure
  • threat modeling
  • vulnerability management
  • incident response
  • secure coding
  • github advanced security
  • ferpa
  • coppa
  • gdpr

Faria is a leader in international education systems & services, offering an integrated suite across learning, admissions, school-to-home, and online courses — trusted by 10,000+ schools and 4 million students across 155 countries . Our product family includes ManageBac (curriculum, assessment & re…

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