Software Architect
Progress Software Corporation11 days ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the OpenEdge product security architecture, roadmap, requirements, and investment priorities.
- Serve as the principal security advisor to product management, engineering leadership, and architecture teams.
- Establish secure software development practices, security quality gates, and OWASP SAMM and secure SDLC maturity initiatives.
- Lead threat modeling, architecture risk assessments, risk-register management, and security posture reporting.
- Drive SAST, DAST, SCA, penetration testing, code review, vulnerability remediation, and coordinated vulnerability disclosure processes.
- Define security requirements and hardening recommendations for OpenEdge Database, PASOE, authentication and authorization services, MCP integrations, DevOps tooling, cloud deployments, and container or Kubernetes platforms.
- Lead compliance, SBOM, third-party component governance, and software supply chain security initiatives.
- Mentor engineers, security champions, and architects and present security risks and recommendations to executives.
- Support product security incident investigations, root-cause analysis, remediation, and response communications.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline.
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, product security, or security architecture.
- 5+ years leading product security strategy for enterprise software products.
- Experience securing large-scale commercial software platforms and influencing engineering organizations and executive stakeholders.
- Experience with C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, Linux/Unix, Windows Server, databases, REST APIs, and microservices architecture.
- Preferred experience with OpenEdge architecture, ABL, PASOE, OpenEdge Database, SQL, DevOps tooling, and enterprise middleware.
- Preferred experience implementing AI/ML security controls, securing agentic AI systems, supporting customer security reviews, and handling enterprise compliance requests.
- Ability to provide strategic technical leadership, communicate with executives, make risk-based decisions, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor others.
Benefits
- Competitive remuneration package.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan enrollment.
- 30 days of earned leave and an extra day off for the employee’s birthday.
- Marriage, casual, maternity, paternity, and other leave programs.
- Premium group medical insurance for employees and five dependents, plus personal accident and life insurance coverage.
- Professional development reimbursement.
- Interest subsidy on vehicle or personal loans.
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About Progress Software Corporation
Progress Software builds commercial software for developers and IT teams, including UI components (Telerik/Kendo UI), app platform (OpenEdge), CMS (Sitefinity), data connectivity (DataDirect), DevOps automation (Chef), secure file transfer (MOVEit), network monitoring (WhatsUp Gold), and load balancing (Kemp LoadMaster). It sells licenses and subscriptions with support to enterprises and software vendors. Founded in 1981 and headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, Progress is a public company on NASDAQ under the ticker PRGS.