Principal Software Security Architect at BeyondTrust Corporation — Remote, USA | Base Career

BeyondTrust is a place where you can bring your purpose to life through the work that you do, creating a safer world through our cyber security SaaS portfolio.

Our culture of flexibility, trust, and continual learning means you will be recognized for your growth, and for the impact you make on our success.

You will be surrounded by people who challenge, support, and inspire you to be the best version of yourself.

The Principal Software Security Architect owns security architecture for BeyondTrust's product suite end to end, including endpoint agents, thick clients, SaaS platforms, APIs, identity systems, and cloud-native services.

This is an engineering leadership role embedded within Engineering and Architecture teams in the Office of the CTO, accountable for designing security into products from first principles through to what ships and runs in production, rather than reviewing other teams' work from the outside.

We operate AI-first: Claude and LLM-driven workflows are how the team performs threat modeling, secure design reviews, vulnerability analysis, and developer enablement today, and this role is expected to operate at that level from day one and help extend that practice further.

The ideal candidate brings 10+ years of hands-on software engineering and security architecture experience, deep expertise in threat modeling and attack surface reduction at scale, and practical experience applying LLM platforms to security engineering work.

Own end-to-end security architecture for assigned product lines, from concept through production, defining the target-state architecture and secure-by-default patterns each product builds on.
Lead threat modeling, attack surface analysis, and secure design reviews across products, platform services, endpoint agents, and cloud-native systems, driving the architectural decisions that eliminate unnecessary exposure rather than just documenting risk.

10+ years in Software Engineering, Security Architecture, Product Security, or Application Security, with a track record of owning architecture for shipping products
Deep, practical experience with threat modeling, attack surface analysis, secure design reviews, and architecture risk analysis at scale, not just in theory
Strong hands-on engineering background, with the ability to read and contribute to the codebase, design systems, and earn credibility with senior engineers as a peer
Strong understanding of cloud-native systems, APIs, endpoint agents, thick clients, and identity/security platforms
Hands-on experience using LLM platforms (Claude, OpenAI, or similar) in engineering or security workflows
Ability to influence engineering and product teams from within, acting as a persuasive, credible, and practical partner rather than a gatekeeper
Builder mindset, having created scalable security workflows, frameworks, or enablement programs, not just consumed them
Experience building AI-native security workflows, plugins, agents, or developer tooling

Measurable reduction in product attack surface and recurring architecture risks, measured by risk eliminated, not findings produced
Security architecture for owned product lines is defined, documented, and demonstrably adopted in shipping products
Increased scale and consistency of secure design reviews through AI-first workflows
Faster identification and remediation of design-level and architecture-level risks
Engineering teams actively using self-service security capabilities that have been built
Expansion of AI-first Product Security Architecture capabilities across the SDLC

Background in securing endpoint technologies, identity systems, or enterprise security platforms
Offensive security experience or adversarial testing background
Cloud security experience across AWS, Azure, or Kubernetes environments

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They are the guiding values of how we build our teams, cultivate leaders, and create a culture where people feel connected.

We take care of our employees so they can take care of our customers.

Customers who come from all walks of life just like us.

We hire incredible people from diverse backgrounds because when we are different together, we are stronger together.

BeyondTrust is the global identity security leader protecting Paths to Privilege™.

Our identity-centric approach goes beyond securing privileges and access, empowering organizations with the most effective solution to manage the entire identity attack surface and neutralize threats, whether from external attacks or insiders.

BeyondTrust is leading the charge in transforming identity security to prevent breaches and limit the blast radius of attacks, while creating a superior customer experience and operational efficiencies.

We are trusted by 20,000 customers, including 75 of the Fortune 100, and our global ecosystem of partners.

Learn more at www.beyondtrust.com .

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