Electronic Arts (EA) · 1 day ago
Sr. Director Engineering, Application Security & Red Teaming
Kirkland, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$205K/yr - $281K/yrElectronic Arts (EA) creates next-level entertainment experiences and is seeking a Senior Director for Application Security and Red Teaming. This role involves overseeing security functions, advancing application security, leading adversarial testing, and securing AI platforms to strengthen EA's overall security posture.
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Responsibilities
Set strategic direction for Application Security, Red Teaming, and AI Security aligned with EA’s enterprise and business objectives
Lead and evolve EA’s Application Security function to improve review quality, reduce systemic risks, and enhance partner experience
Direct adversarial testing across cloud services, business applications, identity systems, source control, CI/CD workflows, productivity suites, and infrastructure
Guide research and security testing of AI systems, LLM applications, agentic workflows, and emerging platforms
Drive innovation in attack tooling, automation, and security testing techniques informed by real adversary behavior
Foster continuous improvement across AppSec, Red Teaming, and AI Security by encouraging experimentation and scalable testing approaches
Develop tooling, automation, and AI driven security agents, including multi agent workflows, that scale AppSec, red teaming, and AI security capabilities
Partner with engineering, IT, product, and cloud teams to embed security into design and development, strengthen operational practices, and drive effective remediation
Collaborate with incident response, vulnerability management, threat intelligence, security engineering and operations to improve detection and response
Develop high performing teams focused on coaching, accountability, and continuous learning, with capacity to take on broader responsibilities as EA’s needs evolve
Qualification
Required
Experience leading Application Security, Red Team, or offensive security functions at enterprise scale
Deep technical expertise in exploit development, penetration testing, and adversary simulation
Experience evaluating and securing AI platforms, LLM based applications, and agentic workflows
Proven ability to deliver measurable improvements in security outcomes through engineering, automation, and scalable processes
Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to influence engineering, product, IT, and executive stakeholders
Experience with cloud environments, identity systems, modern application stacks, and CI/CD pipelines
Ability to translate technical risk into business context and guide risk informed decision making
Preferred
Leadership experience spanning both Application Security and Red Team disciplines
Experience building or expanding AI security capabilities
Background in secure design, architecture, threat modeling, and scalable secure development processes, as well as detection and response validation
Demonstrated ability to lead during major incidents or high pressure events
Proven ability to evaluate emerging technologies and identify novel vulnerabilities
Demonstrated success leading across multiple security functions, beyond AppSec and Red Team, and contributing to enterprise wide security strategy
Strong partnership skills across security, engineering, product, and business teams
Benefits
Paid time off (3 weeks per year to start)
80 hours per year of sick time
16 paid company holidays per year
10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby
Medical/dental/vision insurance
Life insurance
Disability insurance
401(k) to regular full-time employees
Bonus and equity
Company
Electronic Arts (EA)
Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story.
Founded in 1982
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$2.2MKey Investors
TCVTrip Hawkins
2025-09-29Private Equity
2025-09-29Acquired
2019-01-01Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Marija Radulovic-Nastic
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Laura Miele
COO & EVP of marketing, commercial
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