Job Description

About the Role

As a Principal Security Engineer at Sage, you will drive improvements spanning the whole SDLC and post-launch operations. You will work with all engineers to develop a strong security culture and capability to ensure that new product/system releases are secure, and that vulnerabilities discovered are quickly and effectively addressed.

We are looking for someone with a relevant degree and 10+ years' experience.

Location: Bangalore, India. This is a hybrid role, three days per week in the office.

Required Skills

• Significant experience in implementing security in the software development lifecycle
• Experience in implementing security in public cloud-based SaaS applications
• OAuth2 / OIDC / JWT validation (RS256, JWKS), token propagation, and multi-issuer auth.
• Secure coding against the OWASP Top 10; multi-tenant isolation and row-level security.
• Proficiency in English, written and verbal
• Experience of working with geographically dispersed teams
• Experience working in an agile, DevOps/DevSecOps environment




• Experience using AI tools to improve security operations, such as AI-assisted code scanning, vulnerability triage, or threat modeling.
• Awareness of AI/ML-specific security and privacy risks (prompt injection, data leakage, model governance) and the ability to fold them into existing secure development lifecycle and compliance practices
• Comfortable partnering with product and engineering teams to assess and mitigate security and privacy risks specific to AI-driven capabilities.
• Experience of formal compliance frameworks (e.g. SOC, ISO27001, PCI or similar)
• Relevant professional security qualifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, AWS Security Specialty or similar.
• Ability to translate technical security risks into explicit business implications.
• Experience with security observability, detection engineering, and incident response.

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with AWS or Azure, Kubernetes, container security, a

📌 Principal Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Sage
📍 Bengaluru