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Our mission is to help people grow. We’re proud to be ranked 4th among the World’s Top EdTech Сompanies by TIME magazine. We believe lifelong learning should be accessible, personalized, and impactful to each individual. That’s how we change the world and why we bring together exceptional minds.\nOur team is the core of our achievements. We believe in people and shared values SELECT. That’s why, together with Rostyslav Vasiukov, CTO at Headway Inc, we’re looking for a Security Engineer to own the security function for the company.\nWhy do we need you?\nSecurity work already happens across Infrastructure and Engineering, but ownership is fragmented. As Headway Inc scales and our AI transformation accelerates, we need a single person who can see the complete risk picture, make clear trade-offs, and drive the most important issues to resolution.\nWe’re looking for someone who can turn separate security activities into a coherent company-wide function: setting priorities, creating clear accountability, and helping teams make secure decisions without slowing the business down.\nHow will you work?\nThis is our only dedicated security role today. You will report directly to the CTO and have the autonomy to shape how security operates across the company.\nYou will partner with IT Infrastructure, Core Platform, and teams driving AI adoption. Your role is not to execute every security task alone, but to set risk-based priorities, establish clear ownership, align teams, and ensure the most important risks are addressed.\nYou will build on an existing foundation across Google Workspace, GCP, and GitLab SecOps, turning existing tools and practices into a coherent and scalable security system.\nWhat will you own?\nCorporate Security. Your primary focus from day one:\nOwn and continuously improve the company’s corporate security posture across identity, access, endpoints, cloud infrastructure, and employee security.\n\nIdentify and prioritize the most important risks, balancing security needs with business impact.\n\nStrengthen incident detection, response, awareness, and operational readiness.\n\nTurn existing tools and initiatives into a coherent, repeatable security system.\n\nProduct Security. As you grow into the role:\nPartner with Core Platform and Engineering to integrate security into how products are designed, built, released, and monitored.\n\nEstablish a clear approach to vulnerability management and security risks in code, dependencies, infrastructure, and critical product changes.\n\nIntroduce practical controls that improve security without creating unnecessary delivery bottlenecks.\n\nAI Security. As our AI transformation develops, you will:\nDefine practical guardrails for using AI tools and building AI-enabled capabilities safely.\n\nAddress risks related to sensitive data, access, third-party AI providers, and AI-enabled product features.\n\nHelp teams understand what is allowed, what is restricted, and when security involvement is required.\n\nEnable fast AI adoption while keeping security built in by design.\n\nSecurity ownership and visibility. Across all three areas:\nMaintain a company-wide view of security risks, priorities, owners, and progress.\n\nCoordinate security incidents and ensure corrective actions are completed.\n\nCommunicate risks and trade-offs clearly to Engineering, Operations, and company leadership.\n\nUse automation and AI to make security operations more scalable and effective.\n\nWho are you?\nYou think like an owner, not an auditor. An over-permissioned IAM role, a GitLab pipeline with more access than it needs, a laptop that quietly fell out of compliance - you don't wait for someone else to flag it or for it to show up on a report. You catch what the checklist misses.\n\nYou're hands-on by default. You read the logs, write the script, and configure the control yourself, without waiting for someone else to grant access or open a ticket.\n\nYou can run a domain start to finish. Whether that's an identity system, a cloud environment, or a fleet of endpoints - spotting the gap, prioritizing it against everything else competing for attention, closing it, and proving it stayed closed.\n\nYou put AI and automation to real use - triaging alerts, monitoring for anomalies across cloud and endpoint logs, and clearing routine work fast, not just experimenting with it on the side.\n\nYour judgment is grounded in business impact, not just severity scores - you know an exposed admin credential matters more than a stale test account, and you act accordingly.\n\nYou work as a partner to the business. You’re able to explain a risk to an engineer, the CTO, or a lawyer in language each of them relates to, and focused on finding a safe way forward rather than blocking progress.\n\nYou drop your own assumptions fast. The moment the data tells you a risk isn't what you thought, you adjust easily - and you're just as quick to pick up a domain you've never owned before.\n\nYou run autonomously across identity, cloud, and code - no ready backlog, no one setting your tasks - you build the plan, chase the priorities, and own the outcome.\n\nWhat do we offer?\nWork within an ambitious team on a socially impactful education product.\n\nAn office with a reliable shelter, generators, satellite internet, and other amenities.\n\nAccess to our corporate knowledge base and professional communities.\n\nPersonal development plan.\n\nCompensation for English language learning, external training, and courses.\n\nMedical insurance and full sick leave compensation.\n\nCompany doctor and massage in the office.\n\nSports activities: running, yoga, boxing, and more.\n\nCorporate holidays: we go on a week-long paid holiday to rest and recharge twice a year. Besides that, we provide 20 paid vacation days per year.\n\nSupporting initiatives that help Ukraine. Find out more about our projects here.\n\nAre you interested? Send your CV!\nWe’ve created a Talent Guide to help you navigate our hiring process with clarity and confidence - and get the most out of each stage. 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