Director of Security

Job Overview

Cherry is a profitable, high-growth fintech ($500M+ revenue, ~3x YoY) building the financial infrastructure for healthcare providers. Security is core to our product, not a support function. We are looking for strong leaders that will help us scale Cherry to be the go-to financial partner for every doctor in the country.

About Cherry

Cherry is a profitable, high-growth fintech ($500M+ revenue, ~3x YoY) building the financial infrastructure for healthcare providers. Security is core to our product, not a support function.

The Role

We’re hiring a Head / Director of Security to build and own Cherry’s security function, including hiring and scaling a high-impact team. This is a deeply technical, hands-on role as the company scales. Cherry is at an exciting inflection point, evolving from a single-product company into a multi-product platform providing a suite of financial tools for medical practices. As part of this growth, we’re scaling the engineering team by nearly 80 people.

What You’ll Do

• Own application, cloud, infrastructure, and data security across Cherry
• Be hands-on: design systems, review code and architecture, and contribute directly where needed
• Lead incident response, threat modeling, and security reviews
• Build and grow an elite security team doing high leverage technical work
• Embed security into engineering workflows without slowing product velocity

What We’re Looking For

• You don’t need prior fintech experience
• 8–12+ years in security engineering or security leadership
• Strong hands-on background in modern cloud-native systems
• Experience owning security for production systems at scale
• Excellent engineering judgment and comfort making pragmatic tradeoffs
• Prior experience building or scaling a security function is a plus