AI-First Product Security Architect

BeyondTrust, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

BeyondTrust is seeking a Principal Software Security Architect to own end-to-end security architecture across the product suite, from concept to production, embedded within the CTO office. You will guide threat modeling, secure design reviews, and AI-first security workflows, mentoring engineers and architects while shaping security patterns and reference architectures.

You will lead initiatives to reduce attack surface at scale, build self-service security capabilities, and drive

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Software Engineering, Security Architecture, Product Security, or Application Security, with a track record of owning architecture for shipping products
• Deep, practical experience with threat modeling, attack surface analysis, secure design reviews, and architecture risk analysis at scale, not just in theory
• Strong hands-on engineering background, with the ability to read and contribute to the codebase, design systems, and earn credibility with senior engineers as a peer
• Strong understanding of cloud-native systems, APIs, endpoint agents, thick clients, and identity/security platforms
• Hands-on experience using LLM platforms (Claude, OpenAI, or similar) in engineering or security workflows
• Ability to influence engineering and product teams from within, acting as a persuasive, credible, and practical partner rather than a gatekeeper
• Builder mindset, having created scalable security workflows, frameworks, or enablement programs, not just consumed them
• Experience building AI-native security workflows, plugins, agents, or developer tooling

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end security architecture for assigned product lines, from concept through production, defining the target-state architecture and secure-by-default patterns each product builds on
• Lead threat modeling, attack surface analysis, and secure design reviews across products, platform services, endpoint agents, and cloud-native systems, driving the architectural decisions that eliminate unnecessary exposure rather than just documenting risk
• Use LLM platforms (Claude, OpenAI) as core tools to scale threat analysis, abuse-case generation, architecture review, and remediation guidance, building the prompts, plugins, skills, and agent workflows that make the engineering org faster and more consistent
• Embed secure-by-default patterns directly into product development, contributing reference architectures, reusable components, and automated guardrails, and building self-service security capabilities that let engineers make secure decisions without a bottleneck
• Own and expand the Product Security handbook, a living system that feeds the team's AI workflows to enforce secure design standards, architecture guidance, and engineering best practices
• Set technical direction for secure design across the org as a principal-level engineer, mentoring engineers, architects, and Security Champions on secure design, attack surface reduction, and AI-first security workflows
• Help evolve BeyondTrust's AI-first Product Security Architecture strategy, identifying where AI workflows can replace manual processes, where they need human oversight, and where the next capability gaps are

Skills

Threat modeling

Attack surface analysis

Secure design reviews

Cloud-native systems

LLM platforms experience

Influence engineering teams

Builder mindset

AI-native security workflows

Tools

Claude

OpenAI

Job description

BeyondTrust is seeking a Principal Software Security Architect to own end-to-end security architecture across the product suite, from concept to production, embedded within the CTO office. You will guide threat modeling, secure design reviews, and AI-first security workflows, mentoring engineers and architects while shaping security patterns and reference architectures.

You will lead initiatives to reduce attack surface at scale, build self-service security capabilities, and drive