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**Overview**:
The Lead Security Engineer drives Nerdy's enterprise security and infrastructure strategy to ensure scalable, secure, and reliable systems in a AWS first environment. This role combines strategic leadership and hands-on operational oversight to protect company assets, ensure compliance, and support high-growth business objectives.

**About Nerdy**:
At Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) - the company behind Varsity Tutors - we're redrawing the blueprint of learning. Our Live + AI platform fuses real-time human expertise with proprietary generative-AI systems, setting a new bar for measurable academic impact at global scale.

We recruit the kind of technologists and operators you'd bet on as solo founders - people who turn ambiguous problems into shipping code, iterate faster than markets move, and compound their advantage with every data point. In an era where great employees can deliver 10-times the leverage of the merely good, we back those who play to win.

Fortune favors the bold. Join us.

**How we compete**:

- **AI-Native at every level**
From the CEO to day-one hires, everyone builds and ships with generative AI. If you're not wielding AI, you're not done.
- **Entrepreneurial velocity**
Move at founder speed, prototype in hours, and measure in real user outcomes. Slow teams die.
- **Free-market rigor**
Ideas rise or fall on merit and results - no committees, no politics, no cap on upside.
- **Full-stack ownership**
You design, build, and run what you ship; accountability is a feature, not a bug.
- **Reward for contribution**
Pay rises with impact, not years. Outstanding results earn outsized rewards. We evaluate both **_what_** you achieve and **_how_**_ _you achieve it: living our leadership principles and using AI effectively are formally measured and rewarded.
- **Relentless exploration**




Push the frontier of generative AI in live learning and - because only the paranoid survive - questioning every legacy assumption along the way.
- **Is Apolitical**
You stay focused on mission-aligned outcomes, not distractions or unrelated causes.

**Nerdy's shareholder letters below explain our latest products and strategy**:

- Q4-2025 Shareholder Letter
- Q3-2025 Shareholder Letter
- Q2-2025 Shareholder Letter

**Responsibilities**:

- Define and execute enterprise security strategy
- Partner closely with leaders to cover compliance, automation, and security best practices across the organization
- Lead business continuity and disaster recovery planning
- Identify and address security gaps created by the rapid adoption of new tools and platforms
- Oversee threat detection, incident response, and vulnerability management
- Ensure regulatory, privacy, and data protection compliance
- Use AI-powered tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent) to implement security guardrails, automate checks, and accelerate security workflows
- Mentor other engineers and collaborate with peers to strengthen the team's collective knowledge
- Design secure, scalable, and resilient architecture
- Embed security controls across Engineering, Product, Legal, and People teams
- Manage vendors, security tools, and IT systems
- Report security posture and risk metrics to executives

**Qualifications**:

- 7+ years in Security Engineering, IT,



or Infrastructure leadership
- Experience leading enterprise security in AWS-first environments
- Hands-on experience with AWS security (IAM, security groups, logging, monitoring)
- Strong knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks, risk, and compliance
- Experience leading threat detection, vulnerability management, and incident response
- Demonstrated ability to influence, driving security adoption across engineering and product teams
- Expertise in cloud infrastructure, IAM, endpoint and network security
- Explicit mentoring of senior-level engineers regularly
- Ability to align security strategy with business goals
- Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience using AI tools for security purposes with tools like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar
- Bachelor's in CS, Information Security, or related field (advanced degree/certs preferred
- Nice to have: Familiarity with NIST 800-171 and/or CMMC Level 2 compliance frameworks

**Unleash Your Potential at Nerdy**:
At Nerdy, you'll earn your success through meritocracy and exceptional outcomes. Our benefits reward performance and initiative:

- **Competitive USD Compensation**: Enjoy a market-leading rate paid in U.S. dollars.
- **100% Remote (Home Country Only)**: Work from anywhere in your home country—no relocation required, no borders crossed.
- **Adaptable Time Off**: Our flexible PTO lets you recharge on your own terms and when you need it the most.
- **Local Holiday Pay**: We honor your nation's official holidays with paid time off—celebrate what matters to you.
- **Continuous Learning**: Get a free, all-inclusive learning membership for you and your household—including 1-on-1 tutoring hours, unlimited on

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📌 Lead Security Engineer (Ai-native) (Mendoza)
🏢 Nerdy
📍 Mendoza