Sr. Principal Architect

Who is Forcepoint?

Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you’re in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we’re missing is you!

We are looking for a highly skilled Architect to help identifying direction, architecture and delivering Forcepoint’s end point solution, creating a cohesive, simplified security offerings with an amazing customer experience. You will help create and run Forcepoint’s end point architecture, collaborating with cross-functional teams across Engineering, Product Management, Marketing, Sales, and Support. This position will help defining the technological direction for how Forcepoint links product value to customer outcomes. 

 

The Role 

• Drive Forcepoint end point to be best of breed and competitive, define the needed architecture to support these capabilities.
• Oversee development of production code, while providing guidance to more engineering as they take on different parts of a system for which you are the primary architect. 
• Drive innovation and best practices to build competitive product.
• Work with partners and leaders spanning multiple organizations and teams to help set product security vision as well as define and deliver on technical roadmaps. 
• Provide technical feedback for critical platform and systems development outside of your primary product work you're doing. 
• Drive complex projects and lead a team of engineers, building product that meets requirements. 
• Deliver a consumer like experience across the technology stack.  
• Problem solving, debug, and fix with advanced development skills   
  
  

• You have proven record of leading building end-point products that support security solutions, familiarity with data leakage prevention is a plus.
• In depth familiarity with windows and MaC OS internals, proven record of writing high quality drivers, mini filters in Windows.
• You have 15+ years proven experience and are regarded as a problem solver across a broad set of constituents across your company and/or industry. 
• You have extensive technical, market expertise in the security space. 
• Ability to get consensus and set technical direction across a large engineering organization. 
• Experience with networking and security protocols/technologies and implementation of high-speed, high-scale, data-planes that carry critical customer traffic. 
• Understanding of core networking protocols such as IPv4, IPv6, IPsec, and familiarity with many others.  Understanding of key security proxy technologies such as SWG, CASB, ZTNA, DLP, etc.,  
• Experience working and helping define test methodologies and test plans