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Principal Security Engineer in USA new

  • Rippling
  • Full time
  • Email
  • San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture and implementation of complex security initiatives across multiple engineering teams and technical domains.
  • Incorporate agentic AI technologies into security capabilities across product and infrastructure systems.
  • Design scalable systems for identity and access management, cloud infrastructure, internal tooling, developer infrastructure, and third-party SaaS.
  • Build prototypes and production code while remaining hands-on throughout the system lifecycle.
  • Translate ambiguous security problems into technical architectures, roadmaps, and executable engineering plans.
  • Identify systemic security risks and architectural weaknesses, then drive durable engineering solutions.
  • Establish security patterns and frameworks that enable engineering velocity.
  • Influence technical decisions across senior stakeholders and raise the technical bar through design reviews and mentorship.

Requirements

  • Significant experience designing, building, and operating complex systems in large-scale cloud or enterprise environments.
  • Track record leading technically complex initiatives involving multiple engineering teams, competing requirements, and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Deep expertise in one or more security domains, particularly identity and access management, authentication, authorization, or identity architecture.
  • Strong understanding of cloud and enterprise architecture, security boundaries, workload isolation, service-to-service communication, and access-control systems.
  • Recent hands-on engineering experience, including prototyping, coding, and use of modern development tooling.
  • Experience building defensive agentic systems and integrating them with dynamic software development and operations.
  • Ability to move between high-level architecture and detailed implementation decisions.
  • Strong technical judgment, pragmatic decision-making, and ability to influence senior technical stakeholders without organizational authority.
  • Candidates will have 10+ years of experience solving complex engineering and security problems.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary, benefits, and equity are offered.
  • The role is based in San Francisco.
  • Office-based employees are currently expected to work in the office at least three days per week.

Salary: $207k - $345k/yr

Rippling

Current simplifies how businesses manage HR, IT, and Finance by integrating all workforce systems into one platform. This unified approach streamlines processes like payroll, benefits, and expenses, allowing companies to automate the entire employee lifecycle efficiently.

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