Principal Product Architect – Cybersecurity
Location: Hyderabad, India (In office) Department: Product & Engineering
Experience: 12+ years, including significant time in cybersecurity product companies
About NopalCyber
NopalCyber is an AI-native cybersecurity company that combines offensive and defensive security through its proprietary Exposure Reduction Platform and AI-powered Cyber Intelligence Quotient (CIQ) risk-scoring engine, enabling organizations to continuously discover, validate, prioritize, detect, respond to, and remediate cyber risk across complex enterprise environments.
Role Summary
We're looking for a Principal Product Architect to own the technical architecture behind NopalCyber's integrated product portfolio — from our External Attack Surface Management to Internal Attack Surface Management to detection and response platform. This is a hands-on, high-influence role for someone who has spent their career inside cybersecurity product companies, understands how attackers and defenders actually operate, and knows how to translate that understanding into scalable,



secure, and elegant product architecture. You'll set technical direction across multiple product lines, partner closely with Product Management and Engineering leadership, and mentor architects and senior engineers across the org.
Key Responsibilities
Own end-to-end architecture for Nopal360 (e.g., MXDR/SOC platform, EASM, IASM GRC tooling), from concept through scale, ensuring designs are secure, resilient, and built for multi-tenant, high-volume telemetry environments.
Translate a deep, current understanding of the threat landscape — adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), emerging attack vectors, and the evolving regulatory environment — into product and platform decisions that keep NopalCyber ahead of the threats it defends against.
Define architectural standards, patterns, and guardrails (data ingestion pipelines, detection engines, API design, identity and access controls, c

📌 Principal Product Architect (Hyderabad)
🏢 NopalCyber
📍 Hyderabad