Senior Field Security Architect

About the role

The Senior Field Security Architect serves as the technical cornerstone of Prime Security's customer-facing team. This role bridges the gap between the Agentic Security Architect platform and enterprise security leaders, ensuring they realize measurable outcomes from design-stage security coverage.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Proof of Value (POV) execution for prospects, mapping customer threat models, security workflows, and architectural patterns to Prime’s platform.
• Build compelling, evidence-based business cases resonating with CISOs and senior buyers, collaborating with Sales to ensure these cases are effective.
• Own the technical onboarding journey, configuring the Security Context Engine to reflect each customer’s organizational security posture, and providing strategic guidance on integrating design-stage security into their PDLC.
• Translate customer security architecture challenges into platform requirements, contributing to Product and Engineering insights.
• Advise customers on emerging risks from AI-generated code and how Prime’s Guard capability provides secure architecture context to AI coding assistants.
• Provide proactive, high-touch engagement for strategic accounts, ensuring satisfaction, retention, and expansion.
• Act as the senior escalation point for complex technical issues, coordinating across engineering, product, and customer success to drive resolution.
• Contribute to platform strategy by surfacing patterns across customer environments, identifying common integration challenges, recurring security architecture gaps, and opportunities for new use cases.

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.
• 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 the friction points that slow teams down.
• Awareness of AI-assisted software development trends, including the security implications of AI-generated code.
• Experience with enterprise customers in Financial Services, Healthcare, or other regulated industries.
• Familiarity with SOC 2 Type II, FedRAMP, or similar compliance frameworks from a vendor perspective.

Qualifications

• Comprehensive knowledge of threat modeling methodologies (STRIDE, PASTA, Attack Trees, LINDDUN) and practical experience applying them in design reviews.
• Fluency with security frameworks: OWASP, NIST CSF/SSDF, ISO 27001, MITRE ATT&CK.
• Understanding of secure-by-design principles and how they apply across the PDLC—from requirements and architecture through implementation, testing, and deployment.
• Executive-level communication: ability to present security strategy to CISOs and translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
• Consultative problem-solving: you diagnose root causes, not just symptoms, and propose solutions that account for organizational constraints.
• Cross-functional collaboration: comfortable working across product, engineering, sales, and customer success in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Self-directed and proactive: you anticipate customer needs and surface issues before they escalate.
• Comfort with ambiguity: this is a senior role in a Series A company—you’ll help define the playbook, not just run it.
• Industry certifications: CISSP, ISSAP, CSSLP, or equivalent.
• Prior experience at a cybersecurity vendor or in a field engineering role at a security-focused startup.
• Experience with Application Security Posture Management (ASPM), SAST/DAST tooling, or security orchestration platforms.

Skills

• Strategic mindset of a Security Architect.
• Technical fluency of a Solutions Engineer.
• Relationship instincts of a trusted advisor.
• Ability to translate technical fit into business outcomes.
• Expertise in product security review processes, threat modeling, and secure design principles.
• Experience with engineering planning and collaboration tools.
• Understanding of secure-by-design principles and their application across the PDLC.
• Executive-level communication skills.
• Consultative problem-solving abilities.
• Cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Self-directed and proactive approach.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to anticipate customer needs.
• Industry certifications relevant to the role.
• Experience in a cybersecurity vendor or field engineering role.
• Experience with Application Security Posture Management (ASPM), SAST/DAST tooling, or security orchestration platforms.

Benefits

Prime Security offers a competitive benefits package, including equity and a base salary ranging from $170,000 to $215,000 per year in New York, NY.

Pay

New York, NY - $170,000 – $215,000 base salary.

Schedule

Flexible work schedule to accommodate the needs of the role and the customer base.