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About the Role
Prime Security is seeking a Senior Field Security Architect to be the technical cornerstone of our customer-facing team, bridging our Agentic Security Architect platform with enterprise security leaders. This senior individual contributor role requires a blend of strategic thinking, technical fluency, and advisory skills to own the full technical relationship with prospects and customers, ensuring they achieve measurable outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end Proof of Value (POV) execution for prospects, demonstrating the platform's value.
- Map customer threat models, security workflows, and architectural patterns to the platform, translating technical fit into business outcomes.
- Collaborate with Sales to build compelling business cases for CISO and senior buyers.
- Own the technical onboarding journey, from integration configuration to the first automated design review.
- Configure the Security Context Engine to reflect customer security posture, design patterns, and risk tolerances.
- Serve as the authoritative technical voice for key accounts, providing strategic guidance on integrating design-stage security into their PDLC.
- Translate customer security architecture challenges into platform requirements for Product and Engineering.
- Advise customers on emerging risks from AI-generated code and how Prime’s Guard capability provides secure architecture context.
- Provide proactive, high-touch engagement for strategic accounts to ensure satisfaction, retention, and expansion.
- Act as the senior escalation point for complex technical issues, coordinating across teams for resolution.
- Contribute to platform strategy by surfacing patterns across customer environments.
Requirements
- 8+ years in a customer-facing technical role (Sales Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Security Engineering, or similar) with at least 3 years at a senior or principal level.
- Demonstrated experience as a Security Architect or in a security-focused role within a mid-to-large enterprise environment.
- Deep, hands-on understanding of product security review processes, threat modeling, and secure design principles in enterprise settings.
- Proven track record of leading POVs and onboarding for security or developer tooling platforms with enterprise customers.
- Experience working within or alongside software development and product teams.
- Comprehensive knowledge of threat modeling methodologies (STRIDE, PASTA, Attack Trees, LINDDUN) and practical experience applying them.
- Fluency with security frameworks: OWASP, NIST CSF/SSDF, ISO 27001, MITRE ATT&CK.
- Understanding of secure-by-design principles and their application across the PDLC.
- Extensive familiarity with engineering planning and collaboration tools like Jira, Linear, GitHub/GitLab, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Understanding of where security integrates across the SDLC/PDLC and friction points.
- Awareness of AI-assisted software development trends and security implications of AI-generated code.
- Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar integration standards for AI tooling is a differentiator.
- Understanding of the evolving AI code co-pilot landscape and its impact on security architecture.
- Executive-level communication skills.
- Consultative problem-solving abilities.
- Cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Self-directed and proactive.
- Comfort with ambiguity.
- Industry certifications: CISSP, ISSAP, CSSLP, or equivalent (preferred).
- Prior experience at a cybersecurity vendor or in a field engineering role at a security-focused startup (preferred).
- Background in Application Security Posture Management (ASPM), SAST/DAST tooling, or security orchestration platforms (preferred).
- Experience with enterprise customers in Financial Services, Healthcare, or other regulated industries (preferred).
- Familiarity with SOC 2 Type II, FedRAMP, or similar compliance frameworks from a vendor perspective (preferred).
Skills
- Security Architecture
- Threat Modeling
- Secure Design Principles
- OWASP
- NIST CSF/SSDF
- ISO 27001
- MITRE ATT&CK
- Jira
- Linear
- GitHub/GitLab
- CI/CD
- AI-assisted software development
- Executive-level communication
- Consultative problem-solving
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)
- SAST/DAST tooling
- Security orchestration
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Principal
Salary/Compensations
- $170,000 – $215,000 base salary
Benefits
- Equity
- Competitive benefits
About the Company
- Prime Security is a company focused on Agentic Security Architecture.