Principal Engineer – Security Architecture

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Define and spearhead the long-term strategy for security architecture.

• Establish standards for security architecture and principles focused on secure-by-design.

• Collaborate with Data Path engineering teams to ensure secure high-performance data transfer.

• Lead reviews of security architecture, conduct threat modeling, and implement SSDLC practices.

• Design and implement enterprise-level Identity and Access Management frameworks.

• Develop and oversee fine-grained authorization systems.

• Define architectures for scalable multi-tenant isolation.

• Work in partnership with Control Plane engineering teams.

• Collaborate with Protocol and Ecosystem teams to secure interfaces.

• Direct platform-wide strategies for encryption and key management.

• Establish strategies for observability, telemetry, logging, auditing, and anomaly detection.

• Promote the adoption of Zero Trust security principles across distributed systems.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to cross-functional engineering teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related technical discipline.

• 12+ years of experience in security architecture, distributed systems security, infrastructure security, or large-scale platform engineering.

• Proven experience in designing and securing large-scale distributed systems, storage platforms, or cloud-native infrastructures.

• In-depth understanding of distributed system architectures.

• Extensive knowledge in cryptography, encryption frameworks, secure key management systems, and PKI architectures.

• Strong experience with integrating external KMS platforms using KMIP or similar protocols.

• Advanced expertise in IAM frameworks.

• Experience with integrating enterprise identity providers.

• Proficiency in secure API design and service-to-service authentication models.

• Experience in designing secure multi-tenant platforms with robust isolation.

🏝️ Benefits

• Dynamic work environment.

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Hands-on involvement in projects.

• Encouragement of strong initiative and results.