Cyber Security Principal: Lead Secure Architecture

FedEx Corporation; Tennessee; Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

FedEx Corporation in Memphis, TN (hybrid with Plano, TX and Pittsburgh, PA) seeks a Cyber Security Principal to lead security within the development organization. You will mentor engineers, drive security initiatives across teams, and elevate product security across the portfolio.

Lead threat modeling and architectural reviews, designing secure patterns while building security automation. Excellent communication, cross-functional collaboration, and a track record of delivering complex security

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years in a dedicated application, product, or offensive security leadership role.
• Expert-level proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, C#).
• Deep, practical expertise in secure architecture, threat modeling, and building security automation.
• A proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional security projects and initiatives.
• Experience designing and implementing security controls in a complex, multi-cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Published security research, conference talks, or open-source tool contributions.
• Advanced security certifications (e.g., OSCP, OSWE, GWAPT, CISSP).
• Experience in defining and scaling security programs (e.g., bug bounty, security champions).

Responsibilities

• Security Leadership & Strategy: Drive the security strategy for your product area. Identify and solve broad, systemic security issues. Define and lead multi-team security initiatives from concept to completion.
• Lead Threat Modeling: Lead and facilitate threat modeling for large-scale, complex systems. Teach and empower development teams to conduct effective threat modeling on their own and scale the practice.
• Architectural Design Review: Review system architecture and design for security flaws, going beyond common vulnerabilities to identify subtle and complex issues. Propose and advocate for new secure design patterns and architectural standards.
• Security Automation: Design, build, and implement the security automation strategy for your portfolio. Integrate new classes of security tools, build custom automation to address unique challenges, and improve the signal-to-noise ratio of security feedback for developers.
• Mentorship & Influence: Actively mentor product security and development engineers on security best practices, design, and architecture. Your guidance should measurably improve the security capabilities of the teams you work with.
• Cross-functional Influence: Act as a security subject matter expert and thought leader. Influence team-wide and cross-functional technical and architectural decisions to ensure security is a foundational component.

Skills

Security leadership

Threat modeling

Architectural design

Security automation

Mentorship

Cross-functional influence

Python

Java

Go

C#

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems or equivalent

Job description

FedEx Corporation in Memphis, TN (hybrid with Plano, TX and Pittsburgh, PA) seeks a Cyber Security Principal to lead security within the development organization. You will mentor engineers, drive security initiatives across teams, and elevate product security across the portfolio.

Lead threat modeling and architectural reviews, designing secure patterns while building security automation. Excellent communication, cross-functional collaboration, and a track record of delivering complex security