Principal Architect, Product Security

Infoblox • Tacoma, WA

59d • $195,000 - $300,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

At Infoblox, every breakthrough begins with a bold “what if.” What if your ideas could ignite global innovation? What if your curiosity could redefine the future? We invite you to step into the next exciting chapter of your career journey. Bring your creativity, drive, your daring spirit, and feel what it’s like to thrive on a team big enough to make an impact, yet small enough to make a difference. Our cloud-first networking and security solutions already protect 70% of the Fortune 500 , and we’re looking for creative thinkers ready to push that influence even further. Join us and discover how far your bold “what if” can take the world, your community, and your career. Here, how we empower our people is extraordinary: Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2025, Great Place to Work-Certified in five countries, and Cigna Healthy Workforce honors three years running — and what we build is world-class: recognized as CybersecAsia’s Best in Critical Infrastructure 2024 — evidence that when first-class technology meets empowered talent, remarkable careers take shape. So, what if the next big idea, and the next great career story, comes from you? Become the force that turns every “what if” into “what’s next”. In a world where you can be anything, Be Infoblox . Principal Architect, Product Security We have an opportunity for a Principal Architect to join our Product Security team in Tacoma, WA, Austin, TX or Atlanta, GA, reporting to Director of Product Security Engineering. In this role, you will play a vital part in ensuring the security and compliance of our products and systems. The Security Architect will work as part of an extended architecture team alongside other cross-functional teams to identify security gaps, develop robust security controls, and implement industry-leading practices. You are the ideal candidate if you are a security thought leader that enjoys identifying gaps and designing corrective measures in collaboration with key stakeholders.

Requirements

• 15+ years of Security Engineering and Architecture experience, including principal- or architect-level leadership designing secure SaaS, appliance-based, or cloud-native platforms at global scale.
• Proven ability to architect secure multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI) platforms, including identity federation, VPC/network isolation, workload identity, secrets lifecycle, and secure control-plane design.
• Deep expertise in securing: Container and Kubernetes ecosystems (EKS, GKE, AKS, Istio, Envoy, Pod Security, eBPF, runtime protection) Infrastructure-as-Code and platform engineering workflows (Terraform, Helm, CloudFormation, Kustomize, Pulumi) Protocol-heavy systems (DNS, DHCP, IPAM / DDI architecture, control-plane security, service segmentation, and abuse prevention)
• Advanced knowledge of secure architecture patterns, including Zero Trust, secure edge computing, secure boot, TPM, firmware integrity, remote attestation, confidential computing, and supply chain integrity (SBOM, SLSA, SCVS).
• Strong track record of architecting and implementing security automation, using language fluency in Python, Go, Rust, or Shell to build scalable tools, runtime validation frameworks, and detection/response integrations.
• Demonstrated experience translating compliance frameworks (FedRAMP High, SOC2, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, SOX, CSA CCM) into engineering-enforceable technical control architectures.
• Hands-on experience conducting and leading: Threat modeling (STRIDE, PASTA, attack trees, misuse cases) Secure code reviews (Python, Go, Rust, C/C++, Lua, Shell) API and microservice security reviews (OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, JWT, ABAC/RBAC)
• Strong communication and influence skills—capable of evangelizing secure architecture to VP-level business leaders, product strategists, and engineering leaders.

Nice To Haves

• Experience defining and leading security capability roadmaps, influencing long-term strategy for platform hardening, secure edge architecture, supply chain resilience, and incident-driven control improvements.
• Relevant certifications desirable (AWS Security Specialty, CISSP-ISSAP, GIAC-GDSA/GCSA, CCSP, OSCP), but hands-on architectural experience outweighs certifications.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical security architecture authority , partnering with product architects, principal engineers, cloud partners (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI), and business leaders to embed secure-by-design principles into hardware appliances, multi-tenant SaaS platforms, and globally distributed cloud infrastructure.
• Architect end-to-end security controls and trust boundaries across hybrid infrastructure—firmware and appliance platforms (TPM, secure boot, supply chain), Kubernetes-based microservices, APIs, control-plane services, and multi-cloud SaaS environments with high availability and resilience.
• Lead the creation and enforcement of security reference architectures and reusable design patterns , covering Zero Trust, confidential computing, data protection, SBOM/SLSA-based supply chain integrity, workload identity, runtime security (eBPF), and API authn/authz protections.
• Drive and institutionalize architectural threat modeling (STRIDE, PASTA, attack trees, misuse cases) at the feature, platform, and system levels—directly shaping secure designs before code is written.
• Architect secure implementations of DNS, DHCP, IPAM (DDI) and high-scale network-centric services , ensuring resilience to poisoning, tunneling, spoofing, DDoS, query amplification, misconfiguration, and protocol misuse.
• Define and integrate security control points throughout CI/CD and platform engineering workflows , using Policy-as-Code, IaC scanning, security validation hooks, attestation requirements, and automated enforcement at deployment gates.
• Design, build, and scale security automation and orchestration capabilities using Python/Go, serverless, event-driven frameworks, OPA/Kyverno, and CI/CD integrations to reduce manual toil and accelerate secure delivery.
• Advise and influence engineering and architecture teams through design reviews, secure coding workshops, architecture governance , shaping long-term technical roadmaps and product direction.
• Drive adoption of CNAPP, CWPP, WAF, service mesh security, API gateways, SIEM/SOAR, and cloud-native telemetry for protective monitoring, runtime defense, and incident-ready detection.
• Translate regulatory and compliance requirements (FedRAMP, SOC2, ISO 27001, NIST SP 800-53, CSA CCM, SOX) into actionable, measurable, and auditable technical security control objectives —shifting from audit-driven to architecture-driven alignment.
• Act as a security culture amplifier , mentoring architects and senior engineers, building a broader security-minded engineering community, and elevating the technical bar across the organization.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage, generous PTO, and flexible work options
• Learning opportunities, career-mobility programs, and leadership workshops
• Sixteen paid volunteer hours each year, global employee resource groups, and a “No Jerks” policy that keeps collaboration healthy
• Modern offices with EV charging, healthy snacks (and the occasional cupcake), plus hackathons, game nights, and culture celebrations
• Charitable Giving Program supported by Company Match

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees