Senior Principal Cyber Engineer

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!

Forcepoint is seeking a full-time Senior Principal Cyber Engineer to serve as the highest-level individual contributor technical authority within the Professional Services organization. This individual will lead the most complex, strategic, and high-visibility customer engagements across Forcepoint's global portfolio, drive thought leadership internally and externally, and act as a force multiplier across the PS engineering team.

Essential Functions

•      Lead and oversee the most complex, multi-product, enterprise-scale deployments across Forcepoint's COTS cyber portfolio, including cross-domain integration with customer security ecosystems.

•      Serve as the definitive escalation point for critical technical issues across the PS organization; own resolution of high-severity incidents and drive post-incident review and remediation strategy.

•      Prepare and deliver executive-level technical documentation, architecture blueprints, and Strategic Business Reviews (SBRs) for C-suite and government leadership audiences.

•      Represent PS as a subject matter authority in customer advisory boards, industry conferences, and partner forums.

•      Function as a strategic technical advisor and co-seller at the highest account tiers; partner with VP/C-level sales leadership to shape deal strategy, accelerate large pursuits, influence procurement decisions, and define the customer's multi-year security architecture roadmap.

•      Define and govern integration architecture standards across the PS organization; lead enterprise-scale API and automation frameworks spanning SIEMs, SOAR platforms, identity providers, and cloud-native services; set best practices adopted organization-wide.

•      Own the formal product feedback and roadmap influence process for the PS organization; synthesize field intelligence from all PS engineers into structured, prioritized gap reports delivered to product and engineering leadership on a recurring cadence.

•      Mentor and technically develop Principal (Prof5) and Senior (Prof4) engineers; define technical standards, deployment playbooks, and integration patterns used across the global PS team; autonomously represents PS externally at customer advisory boards, industry conferences, and partner forums.

Qualifications / Skills

•      BS Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, or related field with 12+ years of cyber security experience, including deep expertise in enterprise architecture, security operations, and complex software solution delivery.

•      Multi-Product Mastery: expert-level knowledge of DLP, CASB, SSE, DSPM, SASE, and the broader data security and zero trust landscape, with authority across the competitive landscape.

•      Expert-level Windows / macOS / Linux/Unix administration and software distribution at enterprise scale.

•      Expert understanding of security design, identity (AD/LDAP/IDP/SAML/OIDC), computer virtualization, and multi-cloud architecture (Azure/AWS/GCP) including cloud-native security services.

•      Expert network architecture: zero trust, SASE, SD-WAN, microsegmentation, advanced firewall/proxy, and hybrid/cloud network security design.

•      Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional technical teams and influence stakeholders at all levels including C-suite and government program leadership.

•      Proven track record resolving critical escalations in enterprise or government environments; leads effectively in a remote, globally distributed organization.

Desired Experience

•      Deep familiarity with the full Forcepoint product portfolio and competitive landscape.

•      Expert Python, shell scripting, SQL, XML; proficiency in at least one additional language (Go, PowerShell, JavaScript).

•      Proven architecture and delivery of enterprise-scale REST API and automation frameworks across complex, multi-vendor security ecosystems.

•      SOAR orchestration platforms (Sp