Staff Security Architect for Scale & Resilience

Snap; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Snap Inc. is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to join the InfoSec organization in Los Angeles, CA.

You will lead the security architecture across applications, infrastructure, and identity platforms, working with engineering, product, and operations to embed security into core systems and workflows. You will define secure design patterns, perform threat modeling, and set engineering standards to reduce systemic risks while mentoring senior engineers and influencing large-scale architecture

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in secure design and threat modeling across domains.
• Strong security engineering background and risk reduction.
• Experience shaping security strategy at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and evolution of security architecture across platforms and workloads.
• Drive cross-functional security initiatives with engineering, product, and operations.
• Define secure patterns, threat models, and engineering standards.
• Influence architecture decisions to bake security in by default.
• Mentor engineers and raise security bar through reviews and guidance.

Skills

Secure design

Threat modeling

Cloud-native security

Production-grade code

Architectural influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

Snap Inc. is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to join the InfoSec organization in Los Angeles, CA.

You will lead the security architecture across applications, infrastructure, and identity platforms, working with engineering, product, and operations to embed security into core systems and workflows. You will define secure design patterns, perform threat modeling, and set engineering standards to reduce systemic risks while mentoring senior engineers and influencing large-scale architecture