Senior Principal Security Architect (Hardware & Cloud)

Astera Labs; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off in the US

Parental leave

401K

Retirement and pension plans

Competitive medical, dental and vision

Job summary

Astera Labs seeks a Senior Principal Engineer, Security Architect to define security architecture across silicon, firmware, cloud services, and IT. You will set architectural direction and lead secure-by-design reviews in a hyper-growth semiconductor company enabling rack-scale AI infrastructure.

You will partner with engineering, product security, GRC, and IT leadership to raise the security bar in a fast-moving environment and mentor teams across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE or related field.
• MS/PhD in security preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive security engineering/architecture experience.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end security architecture across product (silicon/firmware) and enterprise (cloud/IT).
• Lead threat modeling, attack surface analysis, and secure design reviews for new products and platforms.
• Drive SDL practices across design, implementation and validation gates.
• Architect zero-trust, identity, network, and data protection controls across Microsoft-centric enterprise environments.
• Mentor engineers and architects; translate direction into pragmatic roadmaps and measurable outcomes.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Secure development lifecycle

Zero-trust

Cloud security

Azure / Entra / M365

Identity and access management

Cryptography / hardware security

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE

MS/PhD in security

Tools

Azure Security Tools

M365 / Entra

Job description

Astera Labs seeks a Senior Principal Engineer, Security Architect to define security architecture across silicon, firmware, cloud services, and IT. You will set architectural direction and lead secure-by-design reviews in a hyper-growth semiconductor company enabling rack-scale AI infrastructure.

You will partner with engineering, product security, GRC, and IT leadership to raise the security bar in a fast-moving environment and mentor teams across the organization.