H-1B1 Singapore Visa Product Security Engineer Jobs
Product Security Engineer roles qualify for H-1B1 Singapore sponsorship as a specialty occupation requiring a relevant bachelor's degree. Singapore nationals skip the H-1B lottery entirely, and the 5,400-visa annual cap rarely fills, so consulate processing at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore is typically straightforward for qualified applicants with a confirmed job offer.
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Founded in 2017, Obsidian Security was created to close a critical gap: securing the SaaS applications where modern business happens—platforms like Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and hundreds more.
Backed by top investors including Greylock, Norwest Venture Partners, and IVP, we've built a complete SaaS security platform to reduce risk, detect and respond to threats, and prevent breaches at the source. Our team includes leaders who helped define the categories of endpoint and identity security at CrowdStrike, Okta, Cylance, and Carbon Black.
Now, we're transforming how SaaS is secured—in the era of agentic AI.
Today, Obsidian is trusted by global enterprises like Snowflake, T-Mobile, and Pure Storage. We protect more than 200 organizations across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand—including many of the world's largest Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 companies.
With strong global momentum, a growing partner ecosystem including SentinelOne, Databricks, and Google Cloud, and a major fundraise on the horizon, we're scaling quickly toward long-term growth and IPO readiness. Join us as we define the future of SaaS security!
POSITION OVERVIEW
We're looking for a Principal Product Security Engineer to lead and scale Obsidian's product security program across our SaaS product, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and related services. This is a senior, highly technical role for someone who can combine deep security engineering expertise with strong ownership, judgment, and cross-functional leadership.
You'll partner closely with Engineering, Product, GRC, IT, DevOps, SRE, and Platform teams to embed security throughout the SDLC, strengthen cloud and infrastructure security, mature threat modeling and secure design practices, and drive automation across detection, response, vulnerability management, and security testing.
This role reports to the Head of Security and is ideal for a seasoned product security leader who thrives in a fast-moving, high-growth cybersecurity startup and wants to make a meaningful impact on the security of our product, customers, and organization.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead and evolve Obsidian's product security program, including standards, runbooks, technical documentation, and operational practices.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and secure design guidance to security and engineering teams.
- Drive security architecture reviews, threat modeling, secure coding practices, and scalable security design reviews.
- Integrate security deeply into the SDLC through code review, SAST/DAST, fuzzing, SBOMs, dependency scanning, and CI/CD security controls.
- Partner with infrastructure teams to harden AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, GitLab, Terraform, data pipelines, secrets management, and service-to-service access controls.
- Improve security automation, monitoring, metrics, dashboards, and reporting.
- Lead technical response for product security incidents, vulnerability remediation, penetration testing, and red team findings.
- Support customer and prospect security reviews as a senior technical security expert.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- 10+ years of product security and/or engineering experience in cloud-native environments, ideally in cybersecurity, financial services, or another high-security industry.
- Strong software engineering skills, especially in Python.
- Hands-on expertise with Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, GitLab, security automation, and security metrics.
- Deep knowledge across application security, cloud security, detection and response, vulnerability management, and secure SDLC practices.
- Experience partnering with engineering, product, IT, GRC, and external stakeholders during security reviews and incidents.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence, educate, and raise security maturity across the company.
- A mission-driven, ownership-oriented mindset and the ability to thrive in a dynamic startup environment.
WHAT WE OFFER
- A team-first, low-ego, mission-focused culture.
- High-impact work shaping the security of Obsidian's product and platform.
- Professional development opportunities and annual conference budget.
- Competitive salary, equity, and health benefits.
- Opportunities to publish research, share non-proprietary code, and present at conferences.
- The chance to join a fast-growing company backed by Greylock Partners, Google Ventures, Menlo Ventures, WingVC, and Norwest Venture Partners.
INTRODUCTION
Founded in 2017, Obsidian Security was created to close a critical gap: securing the SaaS applications where modern business happens—platforms like Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and hundreds more.
Backed by top investors including Greylock, Norwest Venture Partners, and IVP, we've built a complete SaaS security platform to reduce risk, detect and respond to threats, and prevent breaches at the source. Our team includes leaders who helped define the categories of endpoint and identity security at CrowdStrike, Okta, Cylance, and Carbon Black.
Now, we're transforming how SaaS is secured—in the era of agentic AI.
Today, Obsidian is trusted by global enterprises like Snowflake, T-Mobile, and Pure Storage. We protect more than 200 organizations across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand—including many of the world's largest Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 companies.
With strong global momentum, a growing partner ecosystem including SentinelOne, Databricks, and Google Cloud, and a major fundraise on the horizon, we're scaling quickly toward long-term growth and IPO readiness. Join us as we define the future of SaaS security!
POSITION OVERVIEW
We're looking for a Principal Product Security Engineer to lead and scale Obsidian's product security program across our SaaS product, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and related services. This is a senior, highly technical role for someone who can combine deep security engineering expertise with strong ownership, judgment, and cross-functional leadership.
You'll partner closely with Engineering, Product, GRC, IT, DevOps, SRE, and Platform teams to embed security throughout the SDLC, strengthen cloud and infrastructure security, mature threat modeling and secure design practices, and drive automation across detection, response, vulnerability management, and security testing.
This role reports to the Head of Security and is ideal for a seasoned product security leader who thrives in a fast-moving, high-growth cybersecurity startup and wants to make a meaningful impact on the security of our product, customers, and organization.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead and evolve Obsidian's product security program, including standards, runbooks, technical documentation, and operational practices.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and secure design guidance to security and engineering teams.
- Drive security architecture reviews, threat modeling, secure coding practices, and scalable security design reviews.
- Integrate security deeply into the SDLC through code review, SAST/DAST, fuzzing, SBOMs, dependency scanning, and CI/CD security controls.
- Partner with infrastructure teams to harden AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, GitLab, Terraform, data pipelines, secrets management, and service-to-service access controls.
- Improve security automation, monitoring, metrics, dashboards, and reporting.
- Lead technical response for product security incidents, vulnerability remediation, penetration testing, and red team findings.
- Support customer and prospect security reviews as a senior technical security expert.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- 10+ years of product security and/or engineering experience in cloud-native environments, ideally in cybersecurity, financial services, or another high-security industry.
- Strong software engineering skills, especially in Python.
- Hands-on expertise with Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, GitLab, security automation, and security metrics.
- Deep knowledge across application security, cloud security, detection and response, vulnerability management, and secure SDLC practices.
- Experience partnering with engineering, product, IT, GRC, and external stakeholders during security reviews and incidents.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence, educate, and raise security maturity across the company.
- A mission-driven, ownership-oriented mindset and the ability to thrive in a dynamic startup environment.
WHAT WE OFFER
- A team-first, low-ego, mission-focused culture.
- High-impact work shaping the security of Obsidian's product and platform.
- Professional development opportunities and annual conference budget.
- Competitive salary, equity, and health benefits.
- Opportunities to publish research, share non-proprietary code, and present at conferences.
- The chance to join a fast-growing company backed by Greylock Partners, Google Ventures, Menlo Ventures, WingVC, and Norwest Venture Partners.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Product Security Engineer
Verify your degree maps to the role
H-1B1 visa requires your degree field to directly relate to product security work. A computer science or cybersecurity degree is cleanest. If yours is in electrical engineering or information systems, document how your coursework covers software security principles.
Target employers with active LCA filings
Use Migrate Mate to filter for employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications for product security or information security roles. Recent LCA activity signals the employer already understands H-1B1 consular processing and won't treat your visa as an unknown.
Flag your CISA or OSCP certification early
Security certifications like CISA or OSCP reinforce that your role qualifies as a specialty occupation. Mention them in your first recruiter conversation so the employer's counsel can include them in the LCA specialty occupation justification.
Confirm the employer uses E-Verify before signing
H-1B1 employers must be enrolled in E-Verify to verify your work authorization. Ask HR to confirm enrollment before you accept an offer. Onboarding delays happen when employers discover this requirement only after you've already joined.
Check prevailing wage before negotiating salary
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your job title and work location. Run your role through the OFLC Wage Search before negotiating so you know the wage floor and can benchmark your offer against it.
Time your consulate appointment around LCA certification
DOL certifies LCAs within seven business days. Schedule your U.S. Embassy appointment only after LCA certification is confirmed, not before. Arriving at the interview without a certified LCA results in an automatic refusal of your H-1B1 application.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Product Security Engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B1 Singapore?
Yes. Product security engineering requires at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or a closely related field, which satisfies USCIS's specialty occupation definition. Your employer confirms this in the Labor Condition Application. If your specific job involves architecture, threat modeling, or secure development lifecycle work, the specialty occupation case is straightforward. Roles framed as general IT support are harder to qualify.
How is H-1B1 Singapore different from H-1B for this kind of role?
H-1B requires surviving an annual lottery with roughly a one-in-four selection rate, while H-1B1 Singapore is lottery-free and processed directly at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore. The 5,400-visa annual cap has never been exhausted, so timing is not a constraint. The trade-off is that H-1B1 does not allow dual intent, meaning you cannot simultaneously pursue a green card while on H-1B1 status the way some H-1B holders do.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor H-1B1 Singapore visas for security roles?
Migrate Mate surfaces employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications for security engineering roles, which is the clearest signal that a company understands H-1B1 consular sponsorship and is willing to do it again. DOL LCA disclosure data is public, but Migrate Mate filters it by role and visa type so you're not sorting through raw government files.
Can I switch employers after I start working on an H-1B1 Singapore visa?
Yes, but your new employer must file a fresh LCA with DOL and you'll need to apply for a new H-1B1 at the U.S. Embassy before you can legally work for them. Unlike H-1B, there is no portability provision that lets you start work once a petition is filed. Plan for a gap between roles or negotiate a start date that gives enough time for consulate processing.
What security-specific documents should I prepare before my H-1B1 consulate interview?
Bring your certified LCA, offer letter specifying your role and compensation, degree transcripts with English translations if applicable, and any certifications like CISSP, CISA, or OSCP that support the specialty occupation classification. If your degree is not in cybersecurity specifically, include a credential evaluation that maps your coursework to the security domain. Consulate officers may ask how your academic background connects to product security work.
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