Principal Engineer — Product & Application Security
Freshworks
San Mateo
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 241,000 - 298,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 12+ yearsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Mentoring","Communication","Service mindset","Cross-functional influence"]Own the multi-year technical vision for product and application security across the Freshworks portfolio, including secure-by-design reference architectures and organization-wide standards. Lead threat modeling, security design reviews, and secure SDLC at scale, embedding AI-assisted left-shift practices across CI/CD. Serve as the top technical escalation point for critical incidents, drive vulnerability-class elimination, and shape AI/agent, supply-chain, and zero-trust security strategies.

