Product Security Architect

About the role

Motive’s Product Security Team seeks a Product Security Architect in Bangalore, India, to serve as the primary security partner for product and engineering groups. The role focuses on leading design reviews, threat modeling, and building scalable secure-by-default components to empower engineers. This strategic position emphasizes influencing architecture and driving enablement programs across teams.

What you’ll do

• Lead security design reviews and threat modeling for critical new products and features
• Partner directly with Engineering teams to define security requirements and architecture
• Design, develop, and advocate for secure-by-default libraries and frameworks that eliminate entire classes of vulnerabilities
• Provide expert guidance on architecture patterns (cloud, container, API, identity, data) to ensure security is built-in
• Review hundreds of features being shipped every quarter, identifying high-risk areas and prioritizing engagement
• Drive measurable security outcomes by scaling engagement with dev/eng teams while keeping the security team lean
• Own vulnerability management in key domains such as API security, authentication/authorization patterns, and data-in-transit/at-rest security
• Contribute to documentation, playbooks, and reusable patterns

What you’ll bring

• Strong background in Product Security principles, architecture, and design patterns
• Proven ability to lead security design reviews and threat modeling for large-scale distributed systems
• Experience designing and developing secure-by-default libraries, frameworks, or security services
• Deep hands-on experience with cloud security fundamentals including identity, networks, encryption, isolation, and boundary design

Nice to have

• Ability to design, write, and maintain automations using Python or Go is a plus
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills with a track record of influencing decisions
• Must be authorized to receive and access commodities controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations

Skills