Principal Software Security Architect

BeyondTrust, Remote Canada +1

The role

Our culture of flexibility, trust, and continual learning means you will be recognized for your growth, and for the impact you make on our success. You will be surrounded by people who challenge, support, and inspire you to be the best version of yourself.

The Principal Software Security Architect owns security architecture for BeyondTrust's product suite end to end, including endpoint agents, thick clients, SaaS platforms, APIs, identity systems, and cloud-native services. This is an engineering leadership role embedded within Engineering and Architecture teams in the Office of the CTO, accountable for designing security into products from first principles through to what ships and runs in production, rather than reviewing other teams' work from the outside.

What you will do

What You’ll Do

Own end-to-end security architecture for assigned product lines, from concept through production, defining the target-state architecture and secure-by-default patterns each product builds on.
Lead threat modeling, attack surface analysis, and secure design reviews across products, platform services, endpoint agents, and cloud-native systems, driving the architectural decisions that eliminate unnecessary exposure rather than just documenting risk.
Use LLM platforms (Claude, OpenAI) as core tools to scale threat analysis, abuse-case generation, architecture review, and remediation guidance, building the prompts, plugins, skills, and agent workflows that make the engineering org faster and more consistent.
Embed secure-by-default patterns directly into product development, contributing reference architectures, reusable components, and automated guardrails, and building self-service security capabilities that let engineers make secure decisions without a bottleneck.
Own and expand the Product Security handbook, a living system that feeds the team's AI workflows to enforce secure design standards, architecture guidance, and engineering best practices.
Set technical direction for secure design across the org as a principal-level engineer, mentoring engineers, architects, and Security Champions on secure design, attack surface reduction, and AI-first security workflows.
Help evolve BeyondTrust's AI-first Product Security Architecture strategy, identifying where AI workflows can replace manual processes, where they need human oversight, and where the next capability gaps are.

What Success Looks Like

Measurable reduction in product attack surface and recurring architecture risks, measured by risk eliminated, not findings produced
Security architecture for owned product lines is defined, documented, and demonstrably adopted in shipping products
Increased scale and consistency of secure design reviews through AI-first workflows
Faster identification and remediation of design-level and architecture-level risks
Engineering teams actively using self-service security capabilities that have been built
Expansion of AI-first Product Security Architecture capabilities across the SDLC

Principal Software Security Architect

The role

Principal Software Security Architect

The role

What you will do

What You’ll Do

What Success Looks Like

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