Cyber Security Principal

This position will be hybrid in:
Memphis, TN / Plano, TX / Pittsburgh, PA. Candidates must live within a commutable distance from Memphis, Plano, or Pittsburgh to be eligible for this role. Employees will be required to work at a Fed Ex office location up to several times per week.

As a Cyber Security Principal, you are a security leader and force multiplier embedded within our development organization. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy to solve complex and ambiguous security problems, shifting from finding individual bugs to building systems that prevent them entirely. You will mentor other engineers, drive security initiatives across teams, and be a recognized expert for product security, influencing the architecture and practices of the entire portfolio.

• Security Leadership & Strategy: Drive the security strategy for your product area. Identify and solve broad, systemic security issues. Define and lead multi-team security initiatives from concept to completion.
• Lead Threat Modeling: Lead and facilitate threat modeling for large-scale, complex systems. Teach and empower development teams to conduct effective threat modeling on their own and scale the practice.
• Architectural Design Review: Review system architecture and design for security flaws, going beyond common vulnerabilities to identify subtle and complex issues. Propose and advocate for new secure design patterns and architectural standards.
• Security Automation: Design, build, and implement the security automation strategy for your portfolio. Integrate new classes of security tools, build custom automation to address unique challenges, and improve the signal-to-noise ratio of security feedback for developers.
• Mentorship & Influence: Actively mentor product security and development engineers on security best practices, design, and architecture. Your guidance should measurably improve the security capabilities of the teams you work with.
• Cross-functional Influence: Act as a security subject matter expert and thought leader. Influence team-wide and cross-functional technical and architectural decisions to ensure security is a foundational component.

• 3-5+ years in a dedicated application, product, or offensive security leadership role.
• Expert-level proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, C#).
• Deep, practical expertise in secure architecture, threat modeling, and building security automation.
• A proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional security projects and initiatives.
• Experience designing and implementing security controls in a complex, multi-cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Published security research, conference talks, or open-source tool contributions.
• Advanced security certifications (e.g., OSCP, OSWE, GWAPT, CISSP).
• Experience in defining and scaling security programs (e.g., bug bounty, security champions).

Bachelor's degree/Equivalent in computer science, information systems and/or equivalent formal training.

Five (5+) years of experience in IT information security.

• Skills include IT security and infrastructure.
• Strong technical and consulting skills, project management capability.
• Experience with security and risk frameworks, standards and best practices.
• Strong communication skill.

This compensation range is provided as a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary range for this role across all potential locations. If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the range is a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary for the lowest level to the current starting salary of the highest level. Actual starting pay would be determined by experience relative to the job, market level, pay at the location for this job and other job-related factors An employee may be eligible for additional pay, premiums, or bonus potential.

• The Company offers eligible employees health, vision, and dental insurance, retirement plans, and tuition reimbursement

US pay range: $9,208.38 - $16,575.08 monthly

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