Principal Security Architect

Title PRINCIPAL SECURITY ARCHITECT 

Location: US Remote

Work Status: US Citizen

ABOUT WIND RIVER 

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.  

Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company’s software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world.  Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We’ve achieved recent 5G milestones including the world’s first successful 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone. 

The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a “Top Workplace” for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world. 

About the Opportunity

As a Principal al Security Architect you will play a pivotal role in our mission. You’ll work closely with product engineering, field teams, product management, and our customer-facing teams to drive our security strategy at the technology level, both internally and externally.  To accomplish this you will need to be a skilled software, security and network architect and excellent communicator that can explain and drive the security vision with clean architectural principles, requirements, and messaging. The Principal Security Architect will have the highest level relevant technical skills coupled with an ability to effectively communicate specific business and technical solutions while building consensus on security-related decisions and features.

The role requires a deep understanding of the latest hardware and software best practices for safe, scalable, reliable, compelling security solutions.  The successful candidate will work with and across Wind River's state-of-the-art software technology teams spanning Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), Linux, hypervisor, cloud, and tooling technologies. These technology domains touch on all the market segments we cater to, including software-defined infrastructure, aerospace and defense, industrial automation, medical, automotive and more.

To succeed in this role you must have a deep technical background in software engineering and systems engineering with an interest in staying current with leading-edge embedded, open-source and security technologies. You will be responsible for developing and presenting points-of-view on new security issues and technologies and establishing and evangelizing our security vision and architecture across the entire Wind River product portfolio.  You will be expected to effectively communicate and influence developers, field engineers, sales, and product management within Wind River, establish yourself as a trusted advisor to our customers, and work with external subject matter experts and industry organizations to develop

IT’S WHAT YOU KNOW  

• BA/BSc degree (Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent technical degree) or higher.
• 15+ years of relevant technical experience in the areas of software engineering, 5+ years of experience in security-related software architecture, design and/or implementation.
• Experience using security-related tools and considering use cases for security-related tooling.
• Demonstrated software programming proficiency with the ability to create and explain code examples.
• Familiarity with complex, product level embedded software architectures, APIs and toolkits.
• Familiar with secure software development practices including incident response and SDL.
• Familiar with industry-standard standards and frameworks such as NIST, FEDRAMP, SSDF, STIGs, and CIS benchmarks and how to bring systems into compliance
• Knowledge of security patterns, technologies and activities, such as threat assessments, perimeter mapping, attack surface evaluation, RBAC, single access point etc.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and a good listener
• Exceptional team player who works well in collaborative situations.
• Self-managed, fast learner, and some project management capabilities.
• Ability to brainstorm and represent competing ideas simultaneously.
• Desire and ability to master new technologies.
• Passionate about end-to-end systems that improve the world.

BENEFITS           

• Flexible home office! We offer the flexibility of a hybrid work schedule or 100% remote 
• Named Top Workplace for the 8th year in a row 
• Wind River’s commitment to DEIB 
• 100% Employee covered Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance* 
• Flexible Time Off policy* + 12 observed Holidays 
• 401K with company match
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) *
• Wellness Benefits through Unmind 

*Varies by region and country   

Compensation                

The annual base salary range for this role’s listed grade level is currently $190,000 to $250,000 plus a bonus for Colorado, New York, and New Jersey residents, and $192,000 to $250,000 plus a bonus for SF Bay Area, Greater Seattle, NYC, and Washington, DC, residents. Salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of the education, experience, knowledge, skills, location, and abilities of the applicant, and equity with other team members. Employees in this role are also eligible for the following benefits in accordance with the terms of the Company's plans: health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, flex time off, eligibility to enroll in 401k, and 12 paid holidays.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY 

Wind River is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.  Wind River will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on these characteristics. 

To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com. 

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