Principal Engineer — Product & Application Security

What this role involves

Freshworks seeks a Principal Engineer for Product & Application Security to define the multi-year security technical vision and architecture for its SaaS products and AI-first platform. The role involves setting secure-by-design standards, leading threat modeling and security reviews, and acting as the final decision-maker on high-risk security trade-offs. The position requires deep expertise in security architecture, multi-tenant controls, and emerging AI/agent security challenges.

Skills this posting asks for

• security architecture
• threat modeling
• secure code review
• penetration testing
• vulnerability analysis
• authn/authz
• tenant isolation
• data protection
• secrets management
• api security
• ai security
• agent security
• supply chain security
• zero trust
• multi-tenant saas
• identity and access management
• integration security
• agent runtime security

Requirements

• Level: principal