Senior Data Security Architect

United States Digital Space LLC; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 181,000 - 217,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Data Security Architect to serve as the technical authority for protecting sensitive data across corporate and production systems. You will translate governance requirements into controls built into systems and pipelines handling our most sensitive data.

You will partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, IT, and data owners to design tooling that enforces data requirements and regulatory obligations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in security engineering, data security, or data architecture.
• Experience implementing data discovery, classification, DLP.
• Experience translating policy into technical controls in cloud/SaaS.
• Strong grounding in system and data architecture and secure data lifecycle.
• Ability to influence security architecture at scale.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Able to operate across ambiguity, scale, and organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive technical security strategy across key data domains including data security, metadata management, data architecture, and data quality.
• Embed data security into system design and adoption across product, engineering, and IT.
• Identify, implement, and own tooling that protects data at enterprise level (discovery, inventory, DLP).
• Harden and configure corporate systems to reduce risk of overly permissive access and data quality issues.
• Assess and mitigate data-related risks with data owners and system owners.
• Bridge data governance and privacy policies with engineering realities at scale.
• Continuously improve data security posture by evaluating threats and architectures.

Skills

Security engineering

Data security

Data architecture

Data governance

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk assessment

Cloud/SaaS experience

Tools

DLP tooling

Data discovery

Data classification

Security tooling

Job description

the company helps people stay better connected with the things they love. the company’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. the company’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including GitHub, Yelp, Paramount, and JetBlue.

We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.

Senior Data Security Architect

As the Senior Data Security Architect, you will be the company's technical authority on protecting sensitive data across our corporate and production systems. Your goal is to translate our data governance requirements into technical controls that are built directly into the systems and pipelines that touch our most sensitive data. You'll partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, and System Owners (e.g. IT, Analytics, Business Systems, Finance) across the company to design and implement tooling to enforce our data requirements and meet our regulatory and customer data obligations. the company believes that protecting the data entrusted to us is everyone's responsibility, and you'll give the rest of the organization the tools and technical guidance to live up to that.

You will be supported by a friendly security team, where you can learn and develop. We check our egos at the door. You’ll make sure our customers benefit from a service built to the highest security standards in the industry. We pride ourselves in our involvement in the larger security community and encourage our team to present at network and security conferences and participate in the open source community. We are a distributed security team with the commitment and tools in place to make it work.

What You'll Do:

• Define and drive technical security strategy across key data domains including data security, metadata management, data architecture, and data quality, as well as securing data across the entirety of its lifecycle

• Embed data security into system design and adoption, partnering with Product, Engineering, Business Systems, Finance, and IT to ensure new products, technologies, and workflows are implemented securely from the outset

• Identify, implement, and own the tooling that protects sensitive data at an enterprise level, including data discovery and inventory, and data loss prevention (DLP)

• Harden and configure corporate systems across IT, Analytics, and Business Systems platforms to reduce the risk of overly permissive access and poor data quality

• Assess and mitigate data-related risks in close partnership with the system and data owners who run the company's corporate platforms

• Serve as the technical bridge between the company's data governance and privacy policies and the engineering reality of enforcing them at scale

• Continuously improve data security postureby evaluating emerging threats, technologies, and architectural patterns

What We're Looking For:

• 8+ years of experience in security engineering, data security, or data architecture, with a track record of owning enterprise-scale data protection work end-to-end

• Hands-on experience implementing and running data discovery/classification, DLP, or comparable data protection tooling

• Experience partnering across Legal/Privacy, Product, and Engineering to turn policy and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, DPIAs) into technical controls, particularly within a technology company and preferably in the cloud or SaaS space

• Strong grounding in system and data architecture, data modeling, and the secure handling of data across its lifecycle

• Demonstrated ability to design and influence security architecture at scale, balancing risk, usability, and business velocity

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, capable of building buy-in across technical and non-technical stakeholders alike

• Strong systems thinking and the ability to operate across ambiguity, scale, and organizational boundaries

Work Hours:

This position will require you to be available during core business hours.

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements:

This position is open to Hybrid And Remote Work Locations.

The preferred locations for this position are:

• San Francisco, CA

• New York, NY

• Denver, CO

• Remote United States or Canada

the company currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.

There is a strong preference for Hybrid near a local office. However, we may be willing to consider remote candidates within the US.

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

SF / LA Fair Chance Ordinance Statement

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Salary:

The estimated salary range for this position is $181,220.00 to $217,464.00.

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in the company’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits:

We care about you. the company works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with the company. Curious about our offerings?

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2026, we offer 12 paid local holidays, 12 paid company wellness days.

Why the company?

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We have a huge impact.

the company is a small company with a big reach. Not only doour customershave a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number ofopen source projects and initiatives.Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.

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We value diversity.

Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.

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We are passionate.

the company is chock full of passionate people and we’