Job Description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal Product Security Engineer, Cloud Security based in India.

As a Principal Product Security Engineer, Cloud Security, you will define and drive the technical vision for cloud security across large-scale, globally distributed SaaS platforms. You will lead strategic security architecture initiatives, establishing secure-by-default standards and scalable protection mechanisms across multi-cloud environments. Working closely with engineering leaders, platform architects, and security teams, you will help identify and mitigate complex security risks while strengthening infrastructure resilience. You will play a key role in embedding automated security controls into development workflows, improving cloud security posture, and ensuring compliance across highly regulated environments. This position combines hands-on technical expertise with strategic leadership, offering the opportunity to influence engineering practices at an enterprise scale. You will also mentor senior engineers and champion a collaborative culture focused on innovation, reliability, and security excellence.

Accountabilities

• Define and drive the overall cloud security architecture across AWS, GCP, and Azure environments, establishing secure-by-default standards, architectural patterns, and scalable security guardrails.
• Lead advanced threat modeling exercises and in-depth security assessments across complex systems, distributed microservices, and highly regulated cloud environments.
• Design and implement automated security controls, detection mechanisms, and self-healing guardrails integrated into CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Establish the technical strategy for Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), continuous compliance, security baselines, and risk monitoring.
• Develop reusable security frameworks, engineering guidelines, and operational standards to improve security, resilience, and reliability across products and platforms.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to security and software engineers, promoting security awareness and engineering best practices.
• Act as a principal technical advisor during high-severity security incidents, supporting root-cause investigations and defining long-term architectural remediation strategies.
• Collaborate with executive stakeholders, principal architects, and engineering leaders to translate complex security challenges into actionable strategic priorities.
• Lead security initiatives across architectural transformations, including monolith-to-microservices migrations and the evolution of cloud-native platforms.
• Champion developer experience while ensuring robust security practices are embedded throughout the software development lifecycle.

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