Principal Platform Security Engineer
Early Warning Services2 hours ago
Tokyo, JapanStaff+
Base Salary
$184k - $276k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the enterprise technical vision for platform security engineering across shared services, internal platforms, and engineering workflows.
- Define secure target states, enterprise-scale design patterns, engineering standards, and control strategies across multiple products, platforms, and technology pillars.
- Lead complex platform security engineering decisions and shape long-term technical direction, roadmaps, investment priorities, and enterprise design direction.
- Establish reusable frameworks, reference implementations, technical guardrails, and scalable automation adopted broadly across the organization.
- Resolve ambiguous cross-domain technical challenges and provide recommendations on risk, tradeoffs, sequencing, and implementation approach.
- Lead technical response strategy for significant platform security issues with an emphasis on durable correction and systemic improvement.
- Mentor senior engineers and serve as a recognized technical authority across the organization.
Requirements
- Typically 15 or more years of experience, or a demonstrated portfolio consistent with the experience required for the role.
- Expert-level experience across platform, infrastructure, software, and security engineering, including architectural and implementation leadership.
- Significant experience owning technical direction for broad engineering domains, enterprise initiatives, or highly complex cross-functional programs.
- Significant experience defining target states, standards, design patterns, reference architectures, or control strategies adopted at scale.
- Ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders and align multiple organizations around a common technical direction.
- Strong experience solving complex, ambiguous, systemic engineering problems with durable and scalable solutions.
- Demonstrated technical leadership without requiring formal people-management authority.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including explaining complex technical risk, tradeoffs, and strategic recommendations.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred qualifications include experience as a principal engineer, architect, or equivalent enterprise technical leader; platform or cloud strategy; secure engineering transformation; platform modernization; shared services strategy; internal developer platform evolution; and presenting technical strategy and engineering risk to senior leadership.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model for positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus company HSA contributions and flexible spending accounts.
- 401(k) retirement plan with a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on the first 6% of deferral immediately upon eligibility.
- Flexible Time Off for exempt employees, generous PTO for non-exempt employees, 11 paid company holidays, and a paid volunteer day.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Maven Family Planning support covering egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.
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