Principal Security Engineer

About the role

The Principal Security Engineer owns the security engineering strategy across application, cloud, and detection. This role partners closely with Engineering, Platform, and GRC teams, with the authority to define security standards, guardrails, and architectural baselines. This is an engineering-driven security leadership position, not a ticket-triage orcompliance reporting role.

What you'll do

• Enterprise Security Posture & Risk Engineering
• Define and track measurable KPIs (risk reduction, MTTR)
• Design and operationalize vulnerability lifecycle management
• Translate RBI and PCI-DSS expectations into automated technical controls and build
• Engineering-driven audit readiness frameworks

What you need

• 8–14 yrs of experience
• Vulnerability assessment
• SIEM
• Cloud security
• IAM
• Python
• Kubernetes
• B.Tech or B.E.

Good to have

• Terraform
• AWS
• LLMs
• CI/CD
• Go
• Microservices