
Senior Principal Security Architect
Strategic Education, Inc
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $149,600 - $224,400 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Architect Secure Cloud & AI Platforms by designing end-to-end security architecture for AI/ML systems, multi-cloud infrastructure, and modern application ecosystems.
- Build secure design patterns for APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and serverless workloads.
- Define cloud and application security standards for engineering and platform teams.
- Lead architecture reviews and guide critical initiatives across cloud and AI environments.
- Implement advanced controls for ML pipelines and generative AI platforms.
- Partner with data science teams to ensure secure training, deployment, and governance of AI models.
- Architect secure solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Define identity, segmentation, encryption, workload protection, and observability patterns.
- Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines and the full SDLC.
- Align architecture with frameworks like NIST RMF, SOC, SOX, and zero-trust principles.
- Influence decisions across executive and technical stakeholders.
- Mentor and develop security engineers and architects.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional experience in information security spanning multiple domains, including cloud, application, and platform security.
- Proven experience designing and implementing large-scale enterprise security architectures across modern engineering and cloud environments.
- Deep technical expertise in cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP), DevSecOps, secure SDLC, and modern application architectures (APIs, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, serverless).
- Hands-on experience or strong foundational understanding of AI/ML security, including risks such as data leakage, model manipulation, and supply chain vulnerabilities.
- Strong ability to influence and collaborate with senior leaders, engineering teams, cloud operations, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Demonstrated capability to translate complex technical risks into clear business impact for executive audiences.
- Exceptional architectural thinking, communication, and strategic problem-solving skills.
- Experience mentoring and developing security engineers, helping foster a high-performance, security-first engineering culture.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans
- Well-being incentives
- Parental leave
- Paid time off
- Certain paid holidays
- Tax saving accounts (FSA, HSA)
- 401(k) retirement benefit
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Tuition assistance
- Entertainment and retail discounts
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud securityapplication securityplatform securityDevSecOpssecure SDLCAPIsmicroservicescontainersKubernetesserverless
Soft Skills
influencecollaborationcommunicationstrategic problem-solvingmentoringleadership