Principal Software Security Architect

• 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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BeyondTrust is the global identity security leader protecting Paths to PrivilegeTM.

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.

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