Sr. Security Engineer

About this role

Odyssey | Sr. Security Engineer | Full-time | Remote (US) or NYCOdyssey is building the leading financial technology platform for school choice. We help families access funding for tuition, tutors, curriculum, software, and enrichment programs—empowering them with greater educational opportunities.
We’re well-funded, backed by top investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and we are rapidly scaling.
As Odyssey's first Security Engineer, you'll have full ownership of our security posture — shaping strategy, building programs from the ground up, and driving best practices across our entire technology stack and product suite. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role where your decisions will directly influence how we protect our customers, vendors, and employees.
You'll partner closely with cross-functional teams to embed security into everything we build and ship, champion solutions to emerging security challenges, and ensure we stay ahead of an evolving threat landscape. You're someone who embraces AI tools to work smarter — whether that's accelerating threat detection, streamlining vulnerability analysis, or improving how we respond to…