Senior Product Security Architect

About the role

The Senior Product Security Architect plays a pivotal role in ensuring that Expedia Group's products and services are secure and privacy-aware. Reporting to the Head of Product Security, you will advise product, engineering, and platform teams on security matters, lead threat modeling and security assessments, and contribute to the broader security strategy.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted product security architecture advisor to product, engineering, and platform teams.
• Lead and facilitate threat modeling and security assessments for new and evolving products, services, and platforms.
• Partner closely with product and engineering leaders to embed security requirements into product roadmaps, design reviews, and delivery processes.
• Provide thought leadership around enabling and applying AI across the Product Security org.
• Be a change agent influencing and scaling the adoption of AI-enabled security tooling and best practices across the product security organization.
• Drive continuous verification of product security controls and requirements through AI-enabled automation and integration with existing product security tooling.
• Communicate complex product security and architecture trade-offs in a clear, outcome-focused way to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor and coach product managers, engineers, and architects to raise the bar on product security literacy and design thinking across the organization.
• Contribute to the broader Expedia Group security strategy by identifying emerging product security risks and technology trends and proposing pragmatic, long-term architecture approaches.
• Create a culture of continuous learning, data-driven decisions, and improvements.
• Collaborate across IT and Information Security teams to ensure end to end coverage across the product lifecycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.
• 10+ years of product security and development experience.
• Extensive experience performing application threat modeling.
• Significant experience in the last several years applying Generative AI in software development and for end users, ideally in the context of a medium or large enterprise.
• Expertise in public cloud platforms (AWS is preferred), containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), and related technologies.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience operating product security at scale in cloud-native environments (such as large microservices architectures).
• Deep experience conducting and scaling threat modeling, security design reviews, and architecture risk assessments, and using insights to shape platform capabilities, reusable controls, and security automation.
• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products, including leveraging AI/ML-enabled code analysis, anomaly detection, or security automation; safely integrates and operates AI/ML-enabled solutions that improve security posture, detection, and response.
• Demonstrated experience taking products from concept to scaled adoption by partnering with product and engineering leadership to embed security requirements into product vision, architecture, and roadmaps, and to measure and report on security outcomes.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of modern product development practices and CI/CD and how AI can change and improve these practices to increase both quality and velocity.
• Expertise in 'agentic' architectures including SDKs, context engineering, MCPs, authorization.

Benefits and Perks

Expedia Group offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.

Pay and Schedule

The total cash range for this position varies based on location, available budget, and an individual's knowledge, skills, and experience. Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual's knowledge, skills, and experience.

Equal Opportunity

Expedia Group is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.