Security architect Jobs in San Jose, CA

As a Senior Security Architect within our Engineering Security Architecture team you will play a pivotal role in shaping enhancing and maintaining the security posture of our organization.

You will partner closely with Engineering (Development and SRE) teams to integrate security into every stage of the software development lifecycle (SSDLC) ensuring our products and systems are secure resilient and built with security by design.

As a senior member of the Engineering Security team within Engineering Security you will be part of a diverse cross-company group continuously raising the security bar across Engineering. You will provide hands-on technical guidance architectural oversight and strategic leadership to Engineering and Product Management helping define and prioritize secure product development and operational practices.

This role requires a technically strong collaborative and visionary security leader - someone who combines deep architectural expertise with practical implementation skills and a passion for mentoring scaling influence and driving measurable security improvements across engineering.

Responsibilities

Partner with Engineering (Dev and SRE) teams to embed security throughout the SSDLC including threat modeling secure design reviews secure coding practices and CI / CD pipeline security integration.

Identify and lead cross-engineering security improvement initiatives driving enhancements in SSDLC processes tooling and automation.

Serve as a trusted security advisor to engineering leadership and product teams influencing architectural decisions and long-term technology strategy.

Design and guide security for AI and ML systems ensuring safe model integration data protection and alignment with emerging AI security standards.

Define promote and evolve cloud security architectures and cross-company security best practices.

Establish and maintain secure development standards and provide hands-on support in applying them to critical systems.

Oversee and participate in threat modeling design and code reviews ensuring security is a built-in aspect of engineering excellence.

Deliver training mentorship and security awareness sessions to strengthen security capability across teams.

Support product incident response and drive post-incident improvements.

Continuously learn and explore new technologies security domains and emerging threats to strengthen architectural and operational resilience.

Continuously review and update security policies architecture principles and standards to align with evolving threats and business goals.

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Qualifications :

• 6 years in software development and 5 in security including 3 in a security architecture or technical leadership role.
• Strong engineering background with hands-on experience that informs secure design threat modeling and risk analysis.
• Proven record partnering with Dev and SRE teams to embed and scale security across products and platforms.
• Deep knowledge of SSDLC secure coding and cloud security (AWS preferred).
• Experience designing and assessing security for AI and ML systems including data protection model integrity and emerging AI security standards.
• Expertise in threat modeling risk management and secure architecture reviews (STRIDE PASTA or equivalent).
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and drive security adoption at scale.
• Familiar with key frameworks (OWASP NIST CSA).
• Strong business and technical judgment - able to balance security speed and innovation.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills; fluent in English.
• Practical experience with security tools infrastructure and cloud-native technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

Additional Information :

CyberArk is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion creed sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or protected Veteran status.

We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visa at this time.

The salary range for this position is $150000 $220000 / year plus commissions or discretionary bonus which will be based on the employees performance. Base pay may also vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. The compensation package includes a wide range of medical dental vision financial and other benefits.

Remote Work : Yes

Employment Type : Full-time

Key Skills

Apache Hive,S3,Redshift,Spark,AWS,Solr,NoSQL,Data Warehouse,Internet Of Things,Kafka,DynamoDB,ZooKeeper

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1