Software Security Architect

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.

• 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.
• Use LLM platforms (Claude, OpenAI) as core tools to scale threat analysis, abuse-case generation, architecture review, and remediation guidance.
• Embed secure-by-default patterns directly into product development, contributing reference architectures, reusable components, and automated guardrails.
• Own and expand the Product Security handbook.
• Set technical direction for secure design across the org as a principal-level engineer, mentoring engineers, architects, and Security Champions.
• Help evolve BeyondTrust's AI-first Product Security Architecture strategy.

• 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.
• 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.
• Builder mindset, having created scalable security workflows, frameworks, or enablement programs.
• Experience building AI-native security workflows, plugins, agents, or developer tooling.

• 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.