Job Description:
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Principal Product Security Architect to join our Product Security team as a player-coach, combining hands-on technical leadership with strategic security guidance. This role will drive security excellence across our product portfolio through risk assessment, architecture reviews, threat modeling, and by establishing secure development patterns that enable engineering teams to build security in from the start. You will serve as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership while remaining deeply technical and creating tangible security artifacts that scale across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Security Architecture & Risk Assessment
Partner with engineering teams early in the design process to embed security controls and minimize remediation costs Conduct comprehensive architecture reviews for major changes, current features, services, and products,



identifying security risks and recommending mitigations Perform Architecture reviews and threat modeling exercises using frameworks such as STRIDE and/or attack trees to systematically identify and prioritize threats Author risk assessment reports for executive leadership, product management, and engineering stakeholders, translating technical findings into business impact Develop specific, timely, and thoughtful requirements and solution improvements that manage the risks identified in your assessment Build and maintain reference architectures that demonstrate secure design patterns for common use cases (microservices, APIs, data pipelines, etc.) Security At Scale
Create and publish secure code snippets, libraries, and design patterns that serve as "paved pathways" for development teams Maintain a library of security patterns addressing common vulnerabilities (injection flaws, authentication weaknesses, cryptographic failures, etc.) that developers can leverage as pre-built mitigations to classes of vulnerabilities Develop comprehensive security guidance docu

📌 Principal product security architect (Pune)
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