Senior Principal Product Security Architect – Cloud & Edge

Aptiv PLC; Walnut Creek (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company is seeking a Principal Technologist specializing in Product Security for their cloud platform. This role involves defining security architecture, leading threat assessments, and driving secure configurations. The ideal candidate has over 15 years of experience, deep expertise in product security, and strong knowledge of cloud networking and virtualization. Located in Walnut Creek, this position offers a challenging opportunity to influence architecture in critical industries.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in cloud/platform engineering, embedded systems, or cybersecurity with deep architectural ownership.
• Expertise in product security, including threat modeling, secure architecture, and vulnerability management.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD security, SAST, DAST, container scanning, SBOM generation.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the security architecture for Wind River Private Cloud Platform.
• Lead threat modeling, security risk assessments, and mitigation strategies.
• Drive secure-by-default configurations across compute, storage, networking, and platform services.

Skills

Product security

Threat modeling

Linux internals

Virtualization technologies

Cloud networking

Containerization

Education

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Cybersecurity or similar

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Job description

A technology company is seeking a Principal Technologist specializing in Product Security for their cloud platform. This role involves defining security architecture, leading threat assessments, and driving secure configurations. The ideal candidate has over 15 years of experience, deep expertise in product security, and strong knowledge of cloud networking and virtualization. Located in Walnut Creek, this position offers a challenging opportunity to influence architecture in critical industries.