Distinguished Engineer, 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 of Forcepoint’s technology architecture creating a cohesive, simplified security offerings with an amazing customer experience. You will help create and run Forcepoint’s product 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 security offerings to be best of breed and competitive, define the needed architecture to support these capabilities.  

• Oversee development of production code, particularly during early stages, 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 products. 

• 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  
    

We are looking for:  

• 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, BGP, IPsec, and familiarity with many others.  Understanding of key security proxy technologies such as SWG, CASB, ZTNA, DLP, etc.,   

• Familiarity with distributed systems development. 

• Experience working and helping define test methodologies and test plans 

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