Consulting/Principal Security Engineer

Relx Plc; Raleigh, Northern (NC, KY); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing initiatives

Shared parental leave

Study assistance

Sabbaticals

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to embed security into product design from the outset. You will partner with product and engineering teams, influence senior stakeholders, and drive secure innovation across global teams.

You will translate policy into technical requirements, work on data protection and identity in SaaS platforms, and help maintain trust materials and customer questionnaires for informed purchasing decisions.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in a SaaS or cloud-based product environment with security integrated into design and GTM.
• Track record of working with Product and Engineering teams and challenging assumptions.
• Comfort engaging with senior stakeholders to influence outcomes independently.
• Strong security knowledge in SaaS domains: data protection, identity, application security.
• Curiosity about AI tools and their impact on product development and security practice.
• Ability to work autonomously across a global team.
• Experience translating policy into technical or computational requirements.
• Familiar with legal, compliance, or regulated industries.
• Exposure to AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
• Experience responding to customer security questionnaires and maintaining a trust knowledge base.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product and Engineering to embed security requirements from the outset, coordinating with privacy teams.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders to build credibility and influence.
• Collaborate across Information Security to engage needed security teams for new feature design.
• Create and refresh customer trust materials (brochures, whitepapers, questionnaires) and hand to Customer Engagement.
• Mentor and support junior engineers within the Business Engagement team on security and stakeholder engagement.
• Stay current on AI’s impact on product capability and security practices.

Skills

SaaS security

Product collaboration

Stakeholder influence

Identity protection

Data protection

Application security

AI security awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

AI Development Tools

Job description

**Are you passionate about embedding security into products and helping teams innovate with confidence?** **Do you enjoy partnering with product and engineering leaders to build trusted, secure solutions that deliver real customer value?** **About our Team**LexisNexis Legal & Professional, which serves customers in more than 150 countries with 11,800 employees worldwide, is part of RELX (http://www.relx.com), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. Our company has been a long-time leader in deploying AI and advanced technologies to the legal market to improve productivity and transform the overall business and practice of law, deploying ethical and powerful generative AI solutions with a flexible, multi-model approach that prioritizes using the best model from today’s top model creators for each individual legal use case. The company employs over 2,000 technologists, data scientists, and experts to develop, test, and validate solutions in line with RELX Responsible AI Principles (https://stories.relx.com/responsible-ai-principles/index.html). **About the Role**As a Principal Security Engineer, you will serve as a senior security partner to product and technology teams, helping ensure security and trust are built into products from the earliest stages of design and development. You will work across security, product, engineering, privacy, and customer-facing teams to enable secure innovation, influence decision-making, and help shape the future of the Business Engagement function. **Responsibilities** * Partner with Product and Engineering teams to embed security requirements into new feature design from the outset, partnering with our DPO team where privacy considerations arise* Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, building credibility and influence* Collaborate across Information Security, ensuring the appropriate security teams are engaged in new feature design wherever they are needed* Partner with Product and Engineering to create and refresh customer trust materials, including brochures, whitepapers and questionnaire knowledge base articles, and transition them to our Customer Engagement team, ensuring customers can make informed purchasing decisions* Mentor and support more junior engineers within the Business Engagement team, sharing knowledge of both security domains and stakeholder engagement* Stay current on how AI is reshaping both product capability and the security risks and expectations that come with it **Requirements** * Substantial experience operating in a SaaS or cloud-based product environment, with a strong understanding of how security intersects with product design and go-to-market* A track record of working directly and effectively with Product and Engineering teams, comfortable challenging and being challenged* Confidence and credibility engaging with senior stakeholders, with the ability to influence outcomes independently* Strong working knowledge of security domains relevant to SaaS platforms (e.g. data protection, identity, application security); specialist security certification is valuable but not a prerequisite for the right background* Genuine curiosity about and fluency with AI tools and how they're changing both product development and security practice* Comfort operating autonomously across a global team* Prior experience in a security, product, or engineering role that involved translating policy into technical or computational requirements* Familiarity with legal, compliance, or regulated industries* Exposure to AI-assisted development tools and workflows* Experience responding to customer security questionnaires and building or maintaining a trust knowledge base **Work in a Way That Works for You**We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals. **Working Pattern**Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive. **About the Business**LexisNexis Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics that help customers increase their productivity, improve decision-making, achieve better outcomes, and advance the rule of law around the world. As a digital pioneer, the company was the first to bring legal and business information online with its Lexis and Nexis services.U.S. National Base Pay Range: $104,900 - $174,700. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.