Senior Principal Engineer, Security Architect

Location: San Jose, California, United States

Salary: $190,000–$240,000 per year, depending on experience, level, and business need. The role may also include discretionary bonus, incentives, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides semiconductor-based connectivity solutions and software for rack-scale AI infrastructure, integrating technologies such as CXL, Ethernet, NVLink, PCIe, and UALink.

What you will do

• Define end-to-end security architecture across silicon, firmware, systems, cloud, SaaS, and enterprise IT.
• Establish security reference architectures, design patterns, and standards across teams and product lines.
• Lead threat modeling, attack surface analysis, and secure-by-design reviews for products, features, and platforms.
• Drive secure development lifecycle practices and evaluate cryptography, key management, secure boot, attestation, and supply chain integrity.
• Architect zero-trust, identity, network, data protection, logging, and telemetry controls across Azure, Entra, Microsoft 365, and SaaS environments.
• Advise engineering, product, IT, and GRC leadership, define security roadmaps, and mentor engineers and architects.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in security engineering and architecture across product and/or enterprise domains.
• Experience designing secure architectures spanning hardware/firmware, software, cloud, and enterprise IT.
• Deep knowledge of cryptography, identity and access management, network security, and modern threat models such as MITRE ATT&CK.
• Hands-on experience with cloud security architecture, preferably Azure, and Microsoft enterprise environments including Entra, Microsoft 365, and Active Directory.
• Ability to influence engineering and executive stakeholders and lead complex cross-functional security initiatives.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in a security-related discipline.
• Certifications such as CISSP-ISSAP, SABSA, TOGAF, or Azure Security Engineer/Architect.
• Experience in semiconductor, hardware, or hyperscale infrastructure, including PCIe, CXL, or high-speed connectivity technologies.
• Experience with secure boot, hardware root of trust, attestation, confidential computing, and supply chain security.
• Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, and data privacy regulations.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on connectivity platforms supporting large-scale AI clusters.
• Collaboration across engineering, product security, GRC, IT, and leadership.
• Discretionary bonus, incentives, and benefits may be available.
• Commitment to diverse ideas, backgrounds, and experiences.