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Senior Staff Product Security Architect

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative· Product Security
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Hybrid (Redwood City, CA)$214k - $240kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Staff level role focused on product and application security at scale, partnering with Engineering, Product, and Security to design and implement secure foundations, tooling, and frameworks for CZI, Biohub, and Learning Commons. Hybrid role based in Redwood City, CA.

Responsibilities

  • Conceive, design, develop, and improve industry-leading security tooling, automation, architecture, and/or frameworks that enable enterprise teams at scale to deliver applications and services with appropriate security controls to meet evolving requirements for security and privacy
  • Identify and eliminate classes of security problems by shifting detection and prevention left into the development workflow
  • Provide just-in-time, actionable, technical security guidance to enterprise application and service teams
  • Ensure prioritization, resourcing, and timely delivery of work within a changing business environment
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure security work is being prioritized and addressed
  • Drive end-to-end execution of technical security projects, including requirements gathering, scoping, status updates, and delivery milestones
  • Establish and report metrics to track compliance, program health, and ongoing risk posture
  • Coordinate with third-party vendors and auditors to augment internal security capabilities
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on infrastructure, architecture, and application security, offering guidance to technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Support security reviews, threat modeling, and incident response efforts for applications and production infrastructure

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of technical program management or equivalent experience, with a specific focus on security or application security
  • Demonstrated proficiency with secure SDLC processes and best practices for integrating security throughout the software development lifecycle
  • Hands-on experience designing and managing security controls within CI/CD pipelines, using automation frameworks to enable secure code delivery and rapid remediation
  • Familiarity with threat modeling, static and dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST), and software composition analysis (SCA) tools
  • Deep understanding of DevSecOps principles, security automation, and infrastructure-as-code security
  • Experience driving the adoption of vulnerability management, architectural best practices, and incident response for cloud-native and distributed applications
  • Knowledge of container security (Docker, Kubernetes), microservices architectures, and cloud platform security (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Experience leading end-to-end security architecture design and governance across complex, cloud-native, and hybrid enterprise environments, aligning security capabilities to business and risk objectives
  • Proven ability to define and maintain reference architectures, security patterns, and control standards spanning network, identity, data protection, and application security domains
  • Skilled in conducting architecture risk assessments and design reviews, ensuring new and existing solutions meet zero trust, defense-in-depth, and compliance requirements in regulated industries

Skills

Required:Security tooling design and developmentSecure SDLCCI/CD security controlsThreat modelingSAST/DAST/SADevSecOpsCloud securityContainer securityArchitecture governanceZero Trust / defense-in-depth

Benefits

  • Wide range of benefits to support employees
  • Relocation support for employees who need assistance moving
  • Generous employer match on employee 401(k) contributions
  • Paid time off to volunteer at an organization of your choice
  • Funding for select family-forming benefits
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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