---
title: 'Senior Security Engineer at MyHeritage'
canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-security-engineer-myheritage-or-yehuda-bry3gwb3jf0q'
type: 'job'
last_seen: '2026-09-09'
---

# Senior Security Engineer at MyHeritage

- **Company:** MyHeritage
- **Location:** Or Yehuda, Israel
- **Posted:** 2026-09-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://careers.myheritage.com/jobs/8184077?gh_jid=8184077

## Job description

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Security Engineer to join our security team and lead initiatives across our corporate systems, cloud infrastructure, and AI-enabled environments. You will play a critical role in designing practical security controls, driving complex security projects, and fostering a culture of secure innovation as we scale.

## What you’ll do

- Own security initiatives across corporate systems, endpoints, identities, SaaS, cloud, and internal infrastructure.
- Design and implement practical security controls that reduce risk without slowing the business.
- Own the security review and approval process for AI tools, AI-enabled applications, and autonomous agents across the organization.
- Define security requirements and guardrails that enable teams to adopt AI securely.
- Evaluate new technologies, integrations, and architectures and provide clear security recommendations.
- Lead security projects from assessment and design through implementation and ongoing operation.
- Work closely with IT, Infrastructure, DevOps, R&D, Legal, and business teams.
- Investigate security issues and drive remediation.

## What you bring

- Strong security mindset with a practical, hands-on approach.
- Ability to take an ambiguous security problem, assess the risk, define a solution, and drive implementation.
- Good understanding of modern enterprise, SaaS, cloud, and AI-enabled environments.
- Ability to balance security requirements with business and engineering needs.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Technical skills

- Identity and access management, SSO, MFA, privileged access, and least privilege.
- Endpoint security, EDR, device hardening, and endpoint privilege management.
- SaaS and cloud security, preferably AWS.
- Network security and Zero Trust principles.
- Security monitoring, logging, and incident investigation.
- Security automation using scripting, APIs, or automation platforms.
- Understanding of AI security risks, including data exposure, permissions, integrations, and autonomous agents.
- Familiarity with application security and CI/CD security is an advantage.

## Experience

- 7+ years of hands-on experience in security engineering, infrastructure security, cloud security, or a related security role.
- Proven experience implementing and operating security controls in production environments.
- Proven experience independently leading complex security initiatives across multiple technical teams.
- Experience working with IT, Infrastructure, DevOps, or engineering teams.
- Experience with SaaS, AI security, or emerging technology assessments is an advantage.

Core attributes

- Ownership and independence.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Practical security judgment.
- Hands-on mentality.
- Secure enablement mindset.
- Strong collaboration and communication.
- Curiosity and continuous learning.
- Focus on execution and measurable security improvement.

## About MyHeritage

MyHeritage is the leading global discovery platform for exploring family history. With billions of historical records and family tree profiles, and with sophisticated matching technologies that work across all its assets, MyHeritage gives users the joy of discovering their past and empowering their future. MyHeritage is the most popular DNA test and family history service in Europe. Since 2020, MyHeritage is also home to the world’s most advanced AI technologies for repairing, enhancing, colorizing, and animating historical photos. Learn more at [www.myheritage.com](http://www.myheritage.com). See what it’s like to work at MyHeritage on [www.glassdoor.com](http://www.glassdoor.com).

## Benefits at MyHeritage

Our employees enjoy a range of benefits to enhance work-life balance and well-being:

- Hybrid work model
- Modern, beautiful office in Or Yehuda with shuttle service from Tel Aviv and employee parking (for our Or Yehuda employees)
- On-site gym and pilates classes
- Dog-friendly office
- Well-stocked kitchens and a monthly meal allowance
- Fully funded supplemental health insurance

#LI-Hybrid

## About MyHeritage

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: MyHeritage is an online genealogy platform that helps users build family trees, explore billions of historical records, and discover their ethnic origins through DNA testing.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Francisco Partners in 2021)
- **Headquarters**: Or Yehuda, Israel (with additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; Lehi, Utah, USA; Los Angeles, USA; Edinburgh, UK)
- **Founded**: 2003
- **Founders**: Gilad Japhet (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Internet, genealogy, genetic genealogy, consumer genomics
- **Target customers**: B2C – individuals and families interested in genealogy, heritage, and DNA testing; also serves genealogists and researchers
- **Mission statement**: “Revolutionizing family history, making it easier than ever for people to connect to their roots, and reuniting families all over the world.”

## Products & Services
- **MyHeritage.com** – Web-based family tree builder and historical record search engine (38.6 billion records, 58 million family trees). Includes automatic matching technologies (Smart Matches, Instant Discoveries).
- **MyHeritage DNA** – At-home DNA test kit that provides ethnicity breakdown and relative matching (9.6 million DNA database as of 2021).
- **MyHeritage Mobile App** – Mobile genealogy platform for on-the-go family tree building and photo features.
- **Family Tree Builder** – Free desktop genealogy software.
- **Photo Features** – AI-powered tools to repair, enhance, colorize, and animate photos (e.g., Deep Nostalgia™).
- **MyHeritage DNA Health** – DNA health test (offered in select markets) providing health and wellness insights.
- **Legacy Family Tree Webinars** – Acquisition providing educational content for genealogists.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Acquired for $600 million in early 2021 by Francisco Partners. Private company; current valuation not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Over 1 million annual paying subscribers (as of 2021); 38.6 billion historical records; 58 million family trees; 9.6 million DNA kits sold.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Francisco Partners (private equity owner); prior investors include Bessemer Venture Partners, Accel, and Index Ventures (pre-acquisition).
- **Growth Signals**: 10+ acquisitions including Filae (France) and Legacy Family Tree Webinars; surpassed 1M subscribers; continues to invest in AI (Deep Nostalgia, photo enhancement) and DNA database expansion.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Massive proprietary dataset**: 38.6 billion historical records and a large, growing DNA database create strong network effects.
- **AI/ML innovation**: Deep Nostalgia and other photo features are market-differentiating – they are widely shared on social media, driving viral growth.
- **Multilingual platform**: Available in 42 languages, giving it a global reach vs. competitors focused on English-speaking markets.
- **Affordable DNA testing**: Often priced lower than AncestryDNA or 23andMe, appealing to cost-conscious users.
- **Pro bono projects**: DNA Quest (reuniting adoptees) and other initiatives build brand trust and emotional connection.

## Strategic Focus
- **Continued AI integration**: Adding more machine learning features to enhance user experience (photo animation, record matching).
- **Growing DNA database**: Increasing the size of the DNA database to improve matching accuracy and add health-related products.
- **International expansion**: Deepening presence in non-English markets (e.g., France via Filae acquisition).
- **Monetization of subscribers**: Converting free users into paid subscribers by offering premium record access and advanced features.
- **Post-acquisition integration**: Under Francisco Partners, focusing on profitable growth and operational efficiency.

## Why Work Here
- **Meaningful product**: Employees describe making a tangible difference in users’ lives by connecting families and preserving heritage.
- **Culture**: Top-rated on Glassdoor; emphasizes transparency, collaboration, and innovation. Pet-friendly offices, hybrid work model (remote + office flexibility).
- **Team & growth**: ~520-550 employees globally; small enough to have impact, large enough to work on challenging scalability and ML problems.
- **Perks**: Supplemental health insurance, well-being program, professional development opportunities, 10bis (meal card), and a fun, social environment.
- **Tech stack**: Diverse modern stack (CI/CD, ML/AI, scalability challenges) – attractive for engineers who want to work on meaningful tech.

## Sources
1. [careers.myheritage.com](https://careers.myheritage.com/)
2. [myheritage.com/about-myheritage](https://www.myheritage.com/about-myheritage/)
3. [careers.myheritage.com/positions-lobby](https://careers.myheritage.com/positions-lobby/)
4. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyHeritage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyHeritage)

## Other roles at MyHeritage

- [Retention Representative](https://feeny.ai/job/retention-representative-myheritage-tel-aviv-4wwkaj1ykpd2) — Tel Aviv
- [B2C Sales](https://feeny.ai/job/b2c-sales-myheritage-tel-aviv-5hbbq7xjpnh2) — Tel Aviv, Israel
- [B2C Sales](https://feeny.ai/job/b2c-sales-myheritage-or-yehuda-11r8bzkyap1v) — Or Yehuda
- [Senior Machine Learning Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-machine-learning-engineer-myheritage-or-yehuda-sd0zrj1hmbr5) — Or Yehuda, Israel
- [Senior Security Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-security-engineer-primer-io-united-kingdom-5as7t2z1fs28) — United Kingdom
- [Senior Security Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-security-engineer-cohere-toronto-6t7bm5pf49bw) — Toronto, Canada
- [Senior Security Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-security-engineer-agora-finance-remote-bsps84w81vrm)
- [Senior Security Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-security-engineer-intropic-london-j5nqkdk2z4fk) — London, United Kingdom
- [Senior Security Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-security-engineer-lvt-american-fork-utah-xd0dh9xrfmvd) — American Fork Utah, United States
- [Senior Security Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-security-engineer-dashlane-paris-2xt9vkp84ed5) — Paris, France