Principal Product Security Engineer

The Product Security Engineer - Secure Development Lifecycle is a senior individual contributor responsible for defining, maturing, and integrating Secure Software Development Lifecycle practices across Navy Federal’s software delivery environment. This role serves as the Secure Development Practice integration lead with our Engineering and Technology Services (ETS) organization software delivery teams, ensuring product security expectations are embedded into standard engineering workflows, governance forums, delivery processes, and lifecycle activities.

The role will help evolve product security from standalone reviews and manual touchpoints into a scalable, risk-informed, AI powered, and developer-aligned operating model. The individual will partner with Secure Development Practice leaders, ETS, Product Engineering, Architecture, DevSecOps, platform teams, Information Security, governance, and risk stakeholders to define practical integration patterns for secure-by-design delivery.

This position will establish repeatable process definitions, ownership models, workflow guidance, control integration points, and adoption measures that improve security outcomes while reducing delivery friction.

Responsibilities

• Define and mature Secure Software Development Lifecycle practices aligned to Navy Federal software delivery processes, operating models, and secure development practices.
• Define and support a pre-production product security scorecard to support risk-informed release decisions, ensuring product security posture, open risks, exceptions, and required remediation actions are clearly communicated to business and technology stakeholders.
• Serve as the senior individual contributor integration lead for embedding Secure Development Practice capabilities into Navy Federal engineering workflows, governance forums, and lifecycle activities.
• Map product security activities to software delivery processes including intake, planning, architecture review, design, development, testing, release, exception management, and operational handoff.
• Establish repeatable process patterns for integrating threat modeling, secure coding, application security testing, software composition analysis, API security, software supply chain security, product integrity testing, and risk-based exception handling into engineering workflows.
• Identify and reduce redundant reviews, unclear handoffs, late-stage security friction, and legacy process steps that are not aligned to Navy Federal software delivery practices.
• Develop Secure SDLC operating models, workflow diagrams, playbooks, process documentation, RACI models, control integration points, and implementation guidance.
• Translate security standards, objectives, and risk expectations into practical engineering requirements and developer-consumable guidance.
• Partner with software engineering, architecture, DevSecOps, Information Security, governance, and risk stakeholders to align secure development practices with enterprise delivery processes.
• Support integration of secure development expectations into architecture governance, delivery boards, exception processes, and lifecycle risk decision points.
• Recommend process improvements that strengthen security outcomes, improve developer experience, increase risk visibility, and enable secure delivery at scale.
• Establish adoption and effectiveness measures that demonstrate Secure SDLC maturity, control integration, developer enablement, reduced friction, and improved product security outcomes.
• Lead cross-functional working sessions, develop executive-ready recommendations, and influence process decisions across security and engineering stakeholders without direct authority.

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or the equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Experience defining, improving, or integrating secure development lifecycle practices into enterprise software delivery processes.
• Strong understanding of secure development practices including threat modeling, secure coding, application security testing, software composition analysis, API security, software supply chain security, vulnerability management, and risk-based exception handling.
• Extensive hands-on experience translating security requirements, control objectives, or risk expectations into practical engineering processes, workflow guidance, and delivery requirements.
• Demonstrated experience developing process documentation, operating models, workflow diagrams, playbooks, standards, RACI models, implementation guidance, or executive-level recommendations.
• Strong facilitation, analytical thinking, systems thinking, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder influence skills.
• Ability to operate independently as a senior individual contributor and lead complex cross-functional initiatives without direct reporting authority.

Desired Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience in application security, secure SDLC, software engineering, DevSecOps, enterprise architecture, technology risk, or software delivery governance.
• Strong understanding of software delivery practices including Agile, SAFe, DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD, product-oriented delivery, architecture governance, and release management.
• Advanced degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Administration, or related field.
• Experience with industry frameworks or models such as NIST Secure Software Development Framework, OWASP SAMM, OWASP ASVS, OWASP Top 10, BSIMM, ISO 27001, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, or similar security and software assurance practices.
• CISSP, CISM, CSSLP, CCSP, GIAC, cloud security, architecture, Agile, SAFe, or related professional certifications.

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