PlayStation Global seeks a Staff Security Architect for a full-time position located in San Mateo, California. This role suits an experienced security professional looking to design and secure next-generation cloud, enterprise, platform, and AI-enabled technologies.
Role Overview
PlayStation Global is hiring a Staff Security Architect to shape the security posture of complex, global environments. The professional in this position will collaborate with various engineering, product, infrastructure, and security teams to discover systemic risks, establish scalable security patterns, and direct the secure integration of emerging technologies like generative AI and agentic systems.
Key Responsibilities
Formulate, review, and endorse security architectures covering enterprise, cloud, SaaS, platform, and application landscapes while balancing business goals and constraints.
Direct cloud security architecture across hybrid, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud environments, encompassing identity, data protection, logging, and workload isolation.
Establish security frameworks for PaaS and SaaS platforms, managing identity federation, privileged access, tenant configuration, and API integration.
Embed security into the software delivery lifecycle, handling CI/CD pipelines, source control, infrastructure as code, secrets management, and deployment automation.
Direct security architecture for AI-powered systems, covering large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and AI agent frameworks.
Create safeguards against threats such as prompt injection, unauthorized tool usage, data exposure, and model compromise.
Set security guidelines for AI data, vector stores, prompts, model-serving APIs, and agent identities.
Improve authentication, authorization, cryptography, network security, and application controls across varied environments.
Locate security design flaws in current and planned systems, translating findings into actionable architectural improvements and hardening standards.
Offer technical leadership across multi-disciplinary teams by communicating risks and architectural trade-offs to diverse audiences.
Requirements
Fifteen or more years of relevant professional experience in security engineering, architecture, cloud security, product security, or related fields with senior or staff level leadership.
Thorough understanding of security architecture concepts spanning cloud, application, network, identity, and enterprise infrastructure.
Practical background in securing containerized and cloud-based environments utilizing platforms like Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud.
Comprehensive knowledge of modern identity management, PKI, OAuth/OIDC, SAML, TLS, VPNs, and hardware security modules.
Proficiency in network and application defense mechanisms such as firewalls, network segmentation, DDoS mitigation, proxies, and intrusion detection.
Familiarity with secure software development, threat modeling, and application security across the software lifecycle.
Working knowledge of artificial intelligence and machine learning security concepts to evaluate risks in generative AI and large language model architectures.
Strong critical thinking, communication, and prioritization skills to guide cross-functional, global teams through ambiguity.
Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Information Security, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to Have
Background in securing artificial intelligence and machine learning platforms, model gateways, vector databases, or agentic workflows in production.
Experience with artificial intelligence security evaluations, red teaming, model abuse testing, and control validation.
Practical history securing large-scale, distributed, multi-tenant Linux production systems.
Software development or automation background using Python, Java, C++, or similar programming languages.
Recognized technical leadership demonstrated through patents, publications, open-source contributions, or conference participation.
Background in penetration testing, adversarial security, or attacker-minded design.
Master degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Security, or a related discipline.
Skills and Tools
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Cloud
Python
Java
C++
OAuth/OIDC
SAML
PKI
TLS
VPN
HSM
WAF
NGFW
CI/CD
Linux
About the Company
Sony Interactive Entertainment creates and nurtures the experiences under the PlayStation brand, delivering hardware and network services to over 100 million users. Operating as a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, the organization functions as a dynamic technology and entertainment leader.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should apply directly on the official company careers page.
