Security Architect - U.S. Public Sector

Description

The role sits on the US public sector security team and works across engineering, product, sales and marketing to support growth of the public sector business.

The company builds neutral, trusted identity infrastructure that lets organizations adopt AI safely, and its work centers on finding and fixing risks to employees, product and customers.

The team is looking for owners who move quickly and deliver high-quality work on problems with real consequences.

The company runs offices in more than 20 locations worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the main contact and subject matter expert for all highly regulated public sector initiatives across the company.
• Set the technical direction for highly regulated products and services.
• Define priorities and roadmaps that meet highly regulated requirements.
• Align management, sales, customer success and the wider go-to-market team on expectations and check their messaging.
• Explain requirements to security, compliance and engineering teams.
• Coordinate with security and compliance staff on vulnerability management, security standards and compliance checks.
• Review, validate and update SSPs with GRC and engineering.
• Review all network and boundary compliance diagrams and work with TechOps to keep them current.
• Partner with the TPM on project planning, execution, issue resolution, removing blockers and status reporting.
• Define new features with product engineering architects for the company's US public sector compliance production infrastructure.
• Assess major service changes and coordinate significant change requests with DISA/DoD and FedRAMP.
• Work with product and engineering to confirm the platform supports US public sector use cases.
• Help the GRC team run the CONMON process effectively.
• Build and deploy agentic workflows that automate complex tasks.
• Help support and maintain the federal agentic infrastructure and business processes.
• Act as the security function's representative to intelligence community and DoD classified customers.
• Clarify design and solution discovery, and guide teams on meeting classified requirements.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers to help them grow.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• 10+ years of experience in security, compliance or technology.
• Past experience working in or supporting the US public sector.
• TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph.
• Strategic leadership and strong collaboration skills.
• Detailed working knowledge of identity and security requirements in the public sector.
• Familiarity with working in a product company.
• A strong drive to exceed customer security and compliance needs.
• You must be on U.S. soil: in one of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or an outlying area of the United States, as defined in FAR 2.101.
• You must be able to obtain and keep a U.S. security clearance (Secret or Top Secret) to the extent U.S. Government contracts require.

Conditions

This is a hybrid role based in the Washington DC metropolitan area.

The annual base salary range is $216,000 - $297,000 USD for candidates located in California (excluding the San Francisco Bay Area), Colorado, Illinois, New York and Washington.

Actual base salary depends on factors such as skills, qualifications, experience and work location.

Onboarding is an in-person experience.

New York City applicants and employees can view a notice on the automated employment decision tools the company may use in hiring.

Benefits

• Equity where applicable, plus a bonus.
• Health, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k), and a flexible spending account.
• Paid leave, including PTO and parental leave, under the applicable plans and policies.
• Access to the company's Total Rewards program.