Principal Security Engineer

PORCH INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote role based in India

Job summary

PORCH INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED is seeking a security leadership role to define and enforce architecture standards across cloud, applications, networks, identities, and data. You will lead threat modeling, review designs, and drive risk-based decisions with clear ownership.

The role emphasizes developing protective controls, guiding the security team, and collaborating on policies and compliance with internal stakeholders. This is a remote position based in India.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain security reference architectures, patterns, and standards across cloud, application, network, identity, and data layers.
• Lead threat modeling for products, major features, and infrastructure changes, translating findings into actionable engineering priorities.
• Review architecture designs as a security authority and document decisions, conditions, and accepted risks with clear ownership.
• Develop and maintain controls that protect information systems and support confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
• Analyze threats, recommend risk mitigations, and contribute to security incident response.
• Provide technical direction to the security team and collaborate across functions on security policies and compliance requirements.

Job description

Role overview

Provide technical leadership for security across cloud workloads, applications, networks, identities, and data. The role sets security architecture and design standards, assesses threats and risk in new and changing systems, and works with engineering and other teams to turn security needs into practical, prioritized safeguards.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain security reference architectures, patterns, and standards across cloud, application, network, identity, and data layers.
• Lead threat modeling for products, major features, and infrastructure changes, translating findings into actionable engineering priorities.
• Review architecture designs as a security authority and document decisions, conditions, and accepted risks with clear ownership.
• Develop and maintain controls that protect information systems and support confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
• Analyze threats, recommend risk mitigations, and contribute to security incident response.
• Provide technical direction to the security team and collaborate across functions on security policies and compliance requirements.

Requirements

• The available source describes the role's scope and responsibilities but does not provide specific experience, qualification, or certification requirements.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote role based in India.