Staff, Product Security Architect

ChargePoint; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

ChargePoint, based in Bangalore or Gurgaon, seeks a Staff, Product Security Architect to define and implement security strategies for cutting-edge EV technology. In this role, you’ll collaborate across teams to embed security within the product lifecycle, develop training programs, and manage product risks.

You will bring extensive experience in product security, fostering relationships with key stakeholders while ensuring deliverables align with industry standards. A commitment to building a secure, efficient environment is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of dedicated working knowledge in product security.
• Ability to lead influence to meet customer expectations.
• Strong communication skills, both verbally and in writing.

Responsibilities

• Develop product security strategy and implement tools.
• Ensure security is integrated throughout the development lifecycle.
• Lead security assessments and identify risks.

Skills

Building relationships with stakeholders

Developing processes and policies

Security architecture review

Application penetration testing

Designing security controls

Working with programming languages

Networking and communication protocols

Education

8+ years of product security experience

Understanding of security tools

Experience in automotive or EV industry

Tools

WAF

EDR

Pentesting tools

Job description

About Us

With electric vehicles expected to be nearly 30% of new vehicle sales by 2025 and more than 50% by 2040, electric mobility is becoming a reality. ChargePoint (NYSE: CHPT) is at the center of this revolution, powering one of the world’s leading EV charging networks and a comprehensive set of hardware, software and mobile solutions for every charging need across North America and Europe. We bring together drivers, businesses, automakers, policymakers, utilities and other stakeholders to make e‑mobility a global reality.

Since our founding in 2007, ChargePoint has focused solely on making the transition to electric easy for businesses, fleets and drivers. ChargePoint offers a once‑in‑a‑lifetime opportunity to create an all‑electric future and a trillion‑dollar market.

At ChargePoint, we foster a positive and productive work environment by committing to live our values of Be Courageous, Charge Together, Love our Customers, Operate with Openness, and Relentlessly Pursue Awesome. These values guide how we show up every day, align, and work together to build a brighter future for all of us.

Join the team that is building the EV charging industry and make your mark on how people and goods will get everywhere they need to go, in any context, for generations to come.

Reports To

Senior Manager, Information Security

What You Will Be Doing

ChargePoint is looking for a Staff, Product Security Architect who will help develop our product security strategy, implement tools, architect our product security roadmap, develop process, perform threat assessment and security reviews, and work with different team leaders to implement a security‑by‑design culture as part of our product lifecycle. This role will be responsible for providing guidance, advice, oversight, and implementation of controls on product security matters.

As a Product Security architect, you will design security controls and help validate that our services, applications, stations, and emerging technologies are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. You will be responsible for analyzing the security of applications and services, discovering, and addressing security issues, designing security automation, and decisively taking action to mitigate emerging threats throughout a full secure development life cycle (SDLC). This role will provide career growth opportunities as you gain new security skills in the course of your work. You have an opportunity to experiment, learn, build tools, and work with teams building new technology and services at massive scale in the EV charging space.

What You Will Bring to ChargePoint

• Experience building relationships with key stakeholders across the business to understand their current and planned product activities (application and embedded)
• Experience developing processes and policies to mitigate key product risks.

• Lead security architecture review, application pen testing and DAST program with end‑to‑end ownership
• Drive ChargePoint’s bug bounty program
• Help the team fine‑tune the WAF product
• Work with the team to deliver PCI deliverables.
• Present key product security metrics and risks to senior leadership.
• Performing security assessments, identifying, and mitigating risks through effective tools, processes, training, and guidance. Managing product risk assessments and remediation plans
• Developing and managing a comprehensive product security training program and promoting security awareness throughout the product team agenda
• Influence decision‑makers and stakeholders to achieve a consistently high security bar.
• Experience working with engineering teams to design and implement security controls.
• Support for mentoring, team building and recruiting activities

Requirements

• 8+ years of dedicated working knowledge, and real‑world experience of product security best practice across multiple functions and geographies
• Experience working with Security Architecture review (AWS) / threat modelling
• Experience in Application Pentest.
• Experience in product testing (WAF, EDR, Endpoint)
• Experience implementing security by design culture.
• Experience with one or more programming languages (such as Java, C++, PHP, others) for the purpose of code review.
• An understanding of networking and communication protocols (such as TCP/IP, UDP, SSL/TLS, IPSEC, HTTP, HTTPS, BGP)
• Ability to lead through influence within a secure development life cycle for multiple products and technologies, meeting customer expectations for security
• Demonstrate ability to clearly identify business and regulatory implications of analysis and findings and propose strategic solutions
• Customer and organizational data literacy on processing, usage, management
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders, understand technology and commercial concepts quickly
• Strong relationship’s skills / ability to communicate effectively both in writing and verbally
• Ability to identify and mitigate product security risks with the ability to understand materiality of risks and prioritize / differentiate response accordingly
• Experience in implementing and managing product security tools (good to have)
• Experience in the automotive or EV charging industry (good to have)
• Experience with embedded / hardware security (good to have)

Location

Gurgaon or Bangalore

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse team. ChargePoint is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.

ChargePoint is an equal opportunity employer.

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