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Randolph-Brooks Federal Credit Union is currently searching for an experienced and talented Principal Application Security Engineer to join our amazing IT Security team!
The Principal Application Security Engineer will have the ability to work a hybrid schedule (remote/onsite) after a period of training (time frame may vary). Training will take place at the RBFCU Administrative Service Center: 1 Ikea-RBFCU Pkwy, Live Oak, Texas 78233.
All applicants must reside within the state of Texas and have the capability of performing all of the work from their home in Texas.
To successfully work from home, employees must have access to a minimum internet connection as noted by RBFCU.
- Must have a reliable home internet provider and the ability to hard wire a connection directly to modem (Ethernet cable provided).
- Must be able to provide a workspace at home that is safe, suitable for work, and within a distraction free environment
The Principal Application Security Engineer is an enterprise technical leader responsible for shaping and scaling application and product security strategy across the organization. The role leads the most complex and consequential security architecture decisions, establishes secure engineering standards and reference architectures, and creates platform-level capabilities that make secure development the default. The Principal Engineer influences senior technology leaders, mentors security and engineering talent, addresses emerging risks, and drives measurable improvements across the software ecosystem.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Define the multi-year technical strategy, target state, standards, and capability roadmap for application and product security in alignment with business and technology priorities.
- Lead security architecture, threat modeling, and design decisions for the organization’s highest-risk, most complex, or most strategically important systems.
- Establish enterprise guardrails, secure defaults, paved paths, reference architectures, and engineering standards spanning applications, APIs, cloud, data, containers, identity, and infrastructure.
- Architect and guide the development of scalable application security platforms, automation, telemetry, risk analytics, and CI/CD controls used across the enterprise.
- Identify systemic risk patterns, anticipate emerging threats, and sponsor cross-functional programs addressing AI security, software supply chain risk, cloud-native security, and platform resilience.
- Provide authoritative technical guidance for critical vulnerabilities, security incidents, risk acceptances, acquisitions, major transformations, and executive-level technology decisions.
- Define measurement frameworks that connect engineering practices and security controls to risk reduction, business outcomes, developer experience, and operational effectiveness.
- Influence senior engineering, architecture, product, risk, and business leaders to prioritize and adopt strategic security improvements.
- Develop technical talent through mentorship, design and code review, communities of practice, succession planning, and raising expectations for engineering excellence.
- Represent the organization in industry forums, peer networks, strategic vendor engagements, or professional communities as appropriate.
- All other duties as assigned (note: essential functions and responsibilities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice)
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in application security, product security, security engineering, software engineering, cloud security, or a related cybersecurity discipline.
- Demonstrated mastery of threat modeling, secure architecture, code review, application and API security, vulnerability management, cloud-native security, container security, and security automation.
- Proven experience designing or materially influencing large-scale platforms, distributed systems, cloud environments, developer platforms, or security engineering capabilities.
- Advanced software engineering capability in one or more production languages and a strong record of designing maintainable tooling, platforms, or controls.
- Ability to define strategy and technical standards while remaining sufficiently hands-on to evaluate designs, review critical code, guide prototypes, and resolve difficult engineering problems.
- Exceptional systems thinking and technical judgment, including the ability to make defensible decisions when data is incomplete and tradeoffs span security, reliability, delivery, cost, and customer impact.
- Executive-level written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to frame complex risk, build alignment, and influence decisions across organizational boundaries.
- Demonstrated leadership through influence, including mentoring senior engineers, resolving conflict, creating clarity in ambiguity, and sustaining momentum across long-running initiatives.
- High integrity, sound discretion, organizational awareness, and a consistent record of taking accountability for enterprise outcomes.
Skills / Certification / Licensing:
- Recognized enterprise authority who integrates deep expertise across software, architecture, cloud, data, identity, automation, and emerging technology.
- Defines strategic problems, creates direction, and operates with broad organizational trust and accountability.
- Resolves novel, high-consequence, systemic problems and establishes durable enterprise solutions.
- Shapes organization-wide technology decisions, engineering standards, investment priorities, and risk outcomes.
- Influences executives and senior technical leaders, reconciles competing priorities, and creates alignment across organizational boundaries.
- Multiplies organizational capability through strategy, standards, mentorship, communities of practice, and technical stewardship.
- Delivers measurable enterprise risk reduction, improved developer experience, stronger technical talent, and scalable secure-by-default capabilities.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.
Job Description and Requirements
Randolph-Brooks Federal Credit Union is currently searching for an experienced and talented Principal Application Security Engineer to join our amazing IT Security team!
The Principal Application Security Engineer will have the ability to work a hybrid schedule (remote/onsite) after a period of training (time frame may vary). Training will take place at the RBFCU Administrative Service Center: 1 Ikea-RBFCU Pkwy, Live Oak, Texas 78233.
All applicants must reside within the state of Texas and have the capability of performing all of the work from their home in Texas.
To successfully work from home, employees must have access to a minimum internet connection as noted by RBFCU.
- Must have a reliable home internet provider and the ability to hard wire a connection directly to modem (Ethernet cable provided).
- Must be able to provide a workspace at home that is safe, suitable for work, and within a distraction free environment
The Principal Application Security Engineer is an enterprise technical leader responsible for shaping and scaling application and product security strategy across the organization. The role leads the most complex and consequential security architecture decisions, establishes secure engineering standards and reference architectures, and creates platform-level capabilities that make secure development the default. The Principal Engineer influences senior technology leaders, mentors security and engineering talent, addresses emerging risks, and drives measurable improvements across the software ecosystem.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Define the multi-year technical strategy, target state, standards, and capability roadmap for application and product security in alignment with business and technology priorities.
- Lead security architecture, threat modeling, and design decisions for the organization’s highest-risk, most complex, or most strategically important systems.
- Establish enterprise guardrails, secure defaults, paved paths, reference architectures, and engineering standards spanning applications, APIs, cloud, data, containers, identity, and infrastructure.
- Architect and guide the development of scalable application security platforms, automation, telemetry, risk analytics, and CI/CD controls used across the enterprise.
- Identify systemic risk patterns, anticipate emerging threats, and sponsor cross-functional programs addressing AI security, software supply chain risk, cloud-native security, and platform resilience.
- Provide authoritative technical guidance for critical vulnerabilities, security incidents, risk acceptances, acquisitions, major transformations, and executive-level technology decisions.
- Define measurement frameworks that connect engineering practices and security controls to risk reduction, business outcomes, developer experience, and operational effectiveness.
- Influence senior engineering, architecture, product, risk, and business leaders to prioritize and adopt strategic security improvements.
- Develop technical talent through mentorship, design and code review, communities of practice, succession planning, and raising expectations for engineering excellence.
- Represent the organization in industry forums, peer networks, strategic vendor engagements, or professional communities as appropriate.
- All other duties as assigned (note: essential functions and responsibilities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice)
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in application security, product security, security engineering, software engineering, cloud security, or a related cybersecurity discipline.
- Demonstrated mastery of threat modeling, secure architecture, code review, application and API security, vulnerability management, cloud-native security, container security, and security automation.
- Proven experience designing or materially influencing large-scale platforms, distributed systems, cloud environments, developer platforms, or security engineering capabilities.
- Advanced software engineering capability in one or more production languages and a strong record of designing maintainable tooling, platforms, or controls.
- Ability to define strategy and technical standards while remaining sufficiently hands-on to evaluate designs, review critical code, guide prototypes, and resolve difficult engineering problems.
- Exceptional systems thinking and technical judgment, including the ability to make defensible decisions when data is incomplete and tradeoffs span security, reliability, delivery, cost, and customer impact.
- Executive-level written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to frame complex risk, build alignment, and influence decisions across organizational boundaries.
- Demonstrated leadership through influence, including mentoring senior engineers, resolving conflict, creating clarity in ambiguity, and sustaining momentum across long-running initiatives.
- High integrity, sound discretion, organizational awareness, and a consistent record of taking accountability for enterprise outcomes.
Skills / Certification / Licensing:
- Recognized enterprise authority who integrates deep expertise across software, architecture, cloud, data, identity, automation, and emerging technology.
- Defines strategic problems, creates direction, and operates with broad organizational trust and accountability.
- Resolves novel, high-consequence, systemic problems and establishes durable enterprise solutions.
- Shapes organization-wide technology decisions, engineering standards, investment priorities, and risk outcomes.
- Influences executives and senior technical leaders, reconciles competing priorities, and creates alignment across organizational boundaries.
- Multiplies organizational capability through strategy, standards, mentorship, communities of practice, and technical stewardship.
- Delivers measurable enterprise risk reduction, improved developer experience, stronger technical talent, and scalable secure-by-default capabilities.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Principal Security Engineer
Document your specialized security credentials early
Gather degree transcripts, professional certifications like CISSP or CISM, and performance reviews before you start applying. PERM requires the employer to prove your qualifications match the job requirements, so clean documentation speeds up that audit.
Verify your prevailing wage before negotiating
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up prevailing wages for security engineering roles in your target metro area. DOL assigns a wage level to your PERM position, and your offer must meet or exceed it, so know the floor before you accept.
Search Migrate Mate for verified green card sponsors
Filter for Principal Security Engineer roles on Migrate Mate, which lists employers with verified employment-based green card sponsorship history. Targeting companies with an established PERM track record cuts out the guesswork about whether they'll actually file.
Distinguish EB-2 from EB-3 fit at the offer stage
If the job description requires a master's degree or a bachelor's plus five years of progressive experience, push for EB-2 classification. EB-3 is slower for most nationalities and your offer letter's minimum requirements lock in which category your employer files under.
Anticipate the PERM recruitment audit window
Your employer must run a formal recruitment process and document that no qualified U.S. workers were available before DOL certifies the PERM. This typically takes several months, so factor that timeline into your planning when evaluating offers alongside current visa status deadlines.
Protect your priority date if you switch employers
Once USCIS approves your I-140, your priority date is portable to a new employer's petition. If your I-485 has been pending 180 days or more, AC21 portability also lets you move to a same or similar occupation without restarting. Confirm both conditions with your new employer before resigning.
Green Card Principal Security Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
How does green card sponsorship for a Principal Security Engineer differ from H-1B sponsorship?
Green card sponsorship leads to lawful permanent residence, not a temporary work status. The process involves PERM labor certification with the Department of Labor, an I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS, and then either adjustment of status or consular processing. Unlike H-1B visa, there is no lottery, but per-country numerical limits mean nationals from high-demand countries can face significant priority-date backlogs before they can file the final step.
Does a Principal Security Engineer role typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3?
Most Principal Security Engineer positions qualify under EB-2 because they require a master's degree or a bachelor's degree plus at least five years of progressive experience in security engineering. EB-3 applies when the minimum requirement is a bachelor's degree with two or more years of experience. The job description your employer files in the PERM application determines which category USCIS adjudicates.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor green cards for security engineering roles?
Migrate Mate lists employers with verified employment-based green card sponsorship history, so you can focus your search on companies that have already navigated the PERM and I-140 process for similar roles. Targeting employers with an established track record reduces the risk of an employer agreeing to sponsor in principle but lacking the internal process to follow through.
What happens to my green card case if I change jobs after my I-140 is approved?
Once USCIS approves your I-140, your priority date is preserved and can be transferred to a new employer's petition. If your I-485 adjustment of status application has been pending for 180 days or more, AC21 portability also allows you to change to a same or similar occupation without restarting the process. These are two separate protections, and both conditions matter independently.
What does the PERM recruitment process involve for a Principal Security Engineer position?
PERM requires your employer to conduct a mandatory recruitment campaign, including job postings and documentation that no qualified U.S. workers applied and were rejected without lawful cause. DOL reviews the recruitment records before certifying the application. The minimum requirements listed in those job postings become the baseline for your qualifications, so it's important that your credentials align precisely with what your employer advertises.