Threat Modeling Leader for Developer Security

Mastercard; Donabate; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to partner with developers and architects, delivering hands-on security leadership that embeds threat modeling into the development lifecycle and shapes scalable security practices.

This senior role blends deep technical expertise with coaching, governance, and formal learning programs, driving secure design, anticipation of threats, and improved developer experience across Mastercard's engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Senior security practitioner with hands-on threat modeling experience.
• Experience influencing across teams including developers and architects.
• Strong coaching and communication skills with a practical security mindset.

Responsibilities

• Create scalable threat modeling collateral such as blueprints and templates.
• Evolve threat modeling methodologies and establish governance practices.
• Design and deliver formal learning programs to enable engineers and architects in threat modeling.

Skills

Threat modeling

Secure software design

Developer enablement

Coaching

Communication

Security governance

Job description

Mastercard is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to partner with developers and architects, delivering hands-on security leadership that embeds threat modeling into the development lifecycle and shapes scalable security practices.

This senior role blends deep technical expertise with coaching, governance, and formal learning programs, driving secure design, anticipation of threats, and improved developer experience across Mastercard's engineering teams.