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Who is Tenable?
Tenable® is the Exposure Management company. Over 40,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 65 percent of the Fortune 500, 50 percent of the Global 2000, and large government agencies. Come be part of our journey!
What makes Tenable such a great place to work?
Ask a member of our team and they'll answer, "Our people!" We work together to build and innovate best-in-class cybersecurity solutions for our customers; all while creating a culture of belonging, respect, and excellence where we can be our best selves. When you're part of our #OneTenable team, you can expect to partner with some of the most talented and passionate people in the industry, and have the support and resources you need to do work that truly matters. We deliver results that exceed expectations and we win together!
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. without sponsorship. We are unable to provide sponsorship for work visas of any kind at the time of hire, or at any point during employment. This includes, but is not limited to: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, J-1, etc
Your Role:
Tenable's platform gets stronger every time it connects to something else: a cloud, a SIEM, a remediation tool, an AI agent. As a Principal Solutions Architect on the Technical Alliances team, you will be the senior technical architect behind those connections.
Your work spans two connected areas. The first is Tenable's most strategic cloud alliance, AWS, where you are the primary technical voice for co-build, co-market and AWS Marketplace motions. The second is our broader Technology Ecosystem: frontier AI model providers, and the security, IT and AI vendors who integrate with Tenable One. There you design joint architectures, write sample integrations and MCP connectors, advise partner developers and product managers, and shape the multi-party solutions our customers buy.
This is a high-visibility, individual-contributor seat with established relationships at AWS and across dozens of partners. You will work directly with partner CTOs and engineering leads, Tenable product and engineering, field SEs, and executive leadership.
Why This Role:
- Work at the AI frontier. You will help define how Tenable exposure data powers agentic workflows through MCP, Amazon Bedrock and partner AI platforms, with launch partners already in motion.
- Breadth no single-product role offers. In a typical month you might advise a cloud security vendor on GraphQL export design, architect a three-way solution with a network and asset-intelligence partner, and brief AWS SAs on a joint reference architecture.
- Build, not just support. You own the reference architectures, sample code and enablement that let partners and field teams scale without you in the room.
- Visibility and impact. Your work shows up in AWS competencies, Marketplace pipeline, partner launches and executive reviews.
What You'll Do: AWS Alliance:
- Serve as Tenable's primary technical liaison to AWS, building relationships with Partner SAs, Technical Account Managers, security service teams and educating them on the Tenable portfolio.
- Own the AWS technical enablement plan: design and deliver programs that keep Tenable field SEs and AWS customer-facing SAs aligned on Tenable solutions and joint architectures.
- Drive AWS competency and program workstreams, including design wins, delivery of competency attestation, technical validation and documentation.
- Lead AWS Marketplace technical strategy, including Partner Revenue Measurement (PRM) tagging, ACE co-sell ties and emerging AI co-sell motions.
- Advance Tenable's integrations with AWS-native services such as AWS Security Hub, and the narrative for Tenable on AWS agentic and AI architectures.
- Partner with alliance and field marketing on AWS events, EBCs and demand programs.
What You'll Do: Technology Ecosystem:
- Act as the senior technical advisor to partner engineering teams and product managers building on Tenable Vulnerability Management, Security Center, Web App Scanning, Attack Surface Management, Cloud Security and OT APIs. Guide them on export design, filtering, rate limits, incremental sync and severity mapping.
- Write sample integrations, reference code and MCP connectors that show partners the right way to build on Tenable, and that Tenable teams can reuse.
- Extending Tenable's alliances work with frontier AI model providers, and other partners shaping how Tenable exposure data reaches their platforms and agent ecosystems.
- Participate in technical validation for the Tenable Technology Ecosystem Program, from partner onboarding through integration review and launch.
- Architect multi-party joint solutions and reference architectures with strategic partners, and present them to partner and customer technical executives.
- Lead technical discussions on AI and agentic integrations, including Tenable Hexa AI, MCP-based connectors and AI launch-partner programs.
- Own technical escalations on partner integrations, coordinating with Support, Product and Engineering through to resolution and root cause.
- Share partner and market feedback with Tenable product and engineering teams.
- Serve as backup for partner lab, NFR and API-access provisioning, and strengthen partner self-service capabilities, expanding them where possible.
Across Both:
- Run concurrent workstreams with clear milestones, owners and deliverables, and report progress and risk to executive leadership.
- Use AI tools to accelerate research, enablement content, documentation and reporting.
Success in the First 90 Days:
- 30 days: Working relationships with the Technical Alliances leadership team, key AWS Partner SAs and the top ecosystem partners; a clear view of competency status, co-sell pipeline and open partner integration work.
- 60 days: Delivering AWS enablement independently; owning a portfolio of ecosystem partners end to end, including validations and escalations.
- 90 days: A prioritized plan, agreed with leadership, to close gaps in AWS Marketplace coverage, SA enablement and partner developer experience.
What You'll Need:
- 7+ years in solutions architecture, partner engineering, sales engineering or technical alliances, including 3+ years in a cloud or SaaS security context.
- Strong grounding in exposure and vulnerability management, and how it drives security outcomes: reducing cyber risk, prioritizing against real-world threats, and connecting findings across assets, identities and cloud to the decisions security teams make.
- Working knowledge of AWS services and Marketplace mechanics, and experience inside or alongside a hyperscaler partner ecosystem: co-sell, competencies or marketplace.
- Hands-on development skills: you build working integrations against REST and GraphQL APIs in Python or similar, and can stand up an MCP server or connector.
- A record of advising partner developers and product managers on integration design, and of building relationships from developer to CTO.
- Strong program management across multiple concurrent workstreams and cross-functional teams.
- Clear communicator who can adjust depth for developers, field SEs, partner executives and the C-suite.
And Ideally:
- AWS certification (Solutions Architect Associate or Professional, or Security Specialty).
- Experience working with frontier AI model providers, or with agentic AI, LLM integrations or Amazon Bedrock, technically or as a go-to-market motion.
- Familiarity with security data standards such as OCSF, and with SIEM, SOAR, CNAPP or asset-intelligence integrations.
- Prior AWS competency applications, joint design wins or partner integration launches.
- Familiarity with Tenable One, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Tenable Hexa AI, Nessus or the competitive landscape.
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We're committed to promoting Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) at Tenable - through all equal employment opportunity laws and regulations at the international, federal, state and local levels. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact Recruiting@Tenable.com for further assistance.
Tenable Data Consent Statement
Tenable is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. Depending on your location, one or more of the following notices may apply to you:
General Applicant Privacy Notice
California Applicant Privacy Notice
EU/EEA/UK Applicant Privacy Notice
Who is Tenable?
Tenable® is the Exposure Management company. Over 40,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 65 percent of the Fortune 500, 50 percent of the Global 2000, and large government agencies. Come be part of our journey!
What makes Tenable such a great place to work?
Ask a member of our team and they'll answer, "Our people!" We work together to build and innovate best-in-class cybersecurity solutions for our customers; all while creating a culture of belonging, respect, and excellence where we can be our best selves. When you're part of our #OneTenable team, you can expect to partner with some of the most talented and passionate people in the industry, and have the support and resources you need to do work that truly matters. We deliver results that exceed expectations and we win together!
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. without sponsorship. We are unable to provide sponsorship for work visas of any kind at the time of hire, or at any point during employment. This includes, but is not limited to: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, J-1, etc
Your Role:
Tenable's platform gets stronger every time it connects to something else: a cloud, a SIEM, a remediation tool, an AI agent. As a Principal Solutions Architect on the Technical Alliances team, you will be the senior technical architect behind those connections.
Your work spans two connected areas. The first is Tenable's most strategic cloud alliance, AWS, where you are the primary technical voice for co-build, co-market and AWS Marketplace motions. The second is our broader Technology Ecosystem: frontier AI model providers, and the security, IT and AI vendors who integrate with Tenable One. There you design joint architectures, write sample integrations and MCP connectors, advise partner developers and product managers, and shape the multi-party solutions our customers buy.
This is a high-visibility, individual-contributor seat with established relationships at AWS and across dozens of partners. You will work directly with partner CTOs and engineering leads, Tenable product and engineering, field SEs, and executive leadership.
Why This Role:
- Work at the AI frontier. You will help define how Tenable exposure data powers agentic workflows through MCP, Amazon Bedrock and partner AI platforms, with launch partners already in motion.
- Breadth no single-product role offers. In a typical month you might advise a cloud security vendor on GraphQL export design, architect a three-way solution with a network and asset-intelligence partner, and brief AWS SAs on a joint reference architecture.
- Build, not just support. You own the reference architectures, sample code and enablement that let partners and field teams scale without you in the room.
- Visibility and impact. Your work shows up in AWS competencies, Marketplace pipeline, partner launches and executive reviews.
What You'll Do: AWS Alliance:
- Serve as Tenable's primary technical liaison to AWS, building relationships with Partner SAs, Technical Account Managers, security service teams and educating them on the Tenable portfolio.
- Own the AWS technical enablement plan: design and deliver programs that keep Tenable field SEs and AWS customer-facing SAs aligned on Tenable solutions and joint architectures.
- Drive AWS competency and program workstreams, including design wins, delivery of competency attestation, technical validation and documentation.
- Lead AWS Marketplace technical strategy, including Partner Revenue Measurement (PRM) tagging, ACE co-sell ties and emerging AI co-sell motions.
- Advance Tenable's integrations with AWS-native services such as AWS Security Hub, and the narrative for Tenable on AWS agentic and AI architectures.
- Partner with alliance and field marketing on AWS events, EBCs and demand programs.
What You'll Do: Technology Ecosystem:
- Act as the senior technical advisor to partner engineering teams and product managers building on Tenable Vulnerability Management, Security Center, Web App Scanning, Attack Surface Management, Cloud Security and OT APIs. Guide them on export design, filtering, rate limits, incremental sync and severity mapping.
- Write sample integrations, reference code and MCP connectors that show partners the right way to build on Tenable, and that Tenable teams can reuse.
- Extending Tenable's alliances work with frontier AI model providers, and other partners shaping how Tenable exposure data reaches their platforms and agent ecosystems.
- Participate in technical validation for the Tenable Technology Ecosystem Program, from partner onboarding through integration review and launch.
- Architect multi-party joint solutions and reference architectures with strategic partners, and present them to partner and customer technical executives.
- Lead technical discussions on AI and agentic integrations, including Tenable Hexa AI, MCP-based connectors and AI launch-partner programs.
- Own technical escalations on partner integrations, coordinating with Support, Product and Engineering through to resolution and root cause.
- Share partner and market feedback with Tenable product and engineering teams.
- Serve as backup for partner lab, NFR and API-access provisioning, and strengthen partner self-service capabilities, expanding them where possible.
Across Both:
- Run concurrent workstreams with clear milestones, owners and deliverables, and report progress and risk to executive leadership.
- Use AI tools to accelerate research, enablement content, documentation and reporting.
Success in the First 90 Days:
- 30 days: Working relationships with the Technical Alliances leadership team, key AWS Partner SAs and the top ecosystem partners; a clear view of competency status, co-sell pipeline and open partner integration work.
- 60 days: Delivering AWS enablement independently; owning a portfolio of ecosystem partners end to end, including validations and escalations.
- 90 days: A prioritized plan, agreed with leadership, to close gaps in AWS Marketplace coverage, SA enablement and partner developer experience.
What You'll Need:
- 7+ years in solutions architecture, partner engineering, sales engineering or technical alliances, including 3+ years in a cloud or SaaS security context.
- Strong grounding in exposure and vulnerability management, and how it drives security outcomes: reducing cyber risk, prioritizing against real-world threats, and connecting findings across assets, identities and cloud to the decisions security teams make.
- Working knowledge of AWS services and Marketplace mechanics, and experience inside or alongside a hyperscaler partner ecosystem: co-sell, competencies or marketplace.
- Hands-on development skills: you build working integrations against REST and GraphQL APIs in Python or similar, and can stand up an MCP server or connector.
- A record of advising partner developers and product managers on integration design, and of building relationships from developer to CTO.
- Strong program management across multiple concurrent workstreams and cross-functional teams.
- Clear communicator who can adjust depth for developers, field SEs, partner executives and the C-suite.
And Ideally:
- AWS certification (Solutions Architect Associate or Professional, or Security Specialty).
- Experience working with frontier AI model providers, or with agentic AI, LLM integrations or Amazon Bedrock, technically or as a go-to-market motion.
- Familiarity with security data standards such as OCSF, and with SIEM, SOAR, CNAPP or asset-intelligence integrations.
- Prior AWS competency applications, joint design wins or partner integration launches.
- Familiarity with Tenable One, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Tenable Hexa AI, Nessus or the competitive landscape.
#LI-MS1
#LI-Hybrid
We're committed to promoting Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) at Tenable - through all equal employment opportunity laws and regulations at the international, federal, state and local levels. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact Recruiting@Tenable.com for further assistance.
Tenable Data Consent Statement
Tenable is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. Depending on your location, one or more of the following notices may apply to you:
General Applicant Privacy Notice
California Applicant Privacy Notice
EU/EEA/UK Applicant Privacy Notice
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- Artificial Intelligence
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in principal technical architect jobs.
- 10 or more years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years in an architecture role
- Demonstrated expertise designing distributed systems, microservices, or large-scale cloud platforms
- Proficiency with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform at an advanced or certified level
- Experience producing architectural decision records, reference architectures, and technical roadmaps
- Strong communication skills for presenting to executive and non-technical stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field
Tips for Your Principal Technical Architect Job Search
Tailor your resume to architectural scope
Principal technical architect roles expect evidence of org-wide influence, not just project delivery. Rewrite each bullet to show the number of teams affected, the scale of systems you designed, and the business outcomes your decisions drove.
Document your decision frameworks explicitly
Hiring panels for this level want to see how you make architectural trade-offs, not just what you built. Add a short section or callout on your resume naming the frameworks you apply, such as ADR processes, fitness functions, or reference architecture reviews.
Apply early to roles that fit
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Target postings by domain depth required
Job descriptions for this title split hard between cloud-native greenfield work and legacy modernization. Filter your search by the domain words that match your strongest background so your application lands with teams already aligned to your experience.
Prepare a system design narrative for interviews
Principal-level interviews almost always include a whiteboard or virtual design session. Practice narrating your decisions out loud as you draw, because interviewers at this level are evaluating your reasoning process, not just the diagram you produce.
Negotiate scope and reporting line, not just pay
At the principal architect level, the number of product lines you govern and whether you report to a CTO or a VP of Engineering shapes your day-to-day authority more than compensation alone. Ask about those specifics before accepting any offer.
Principal Technical Architect Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most principal technical architects?
AT&T, Coastal, and NiyamIT are hiring the most principal technical architects right now, with openings concentrated in Texas, Virginia, and California, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is especially active in financial services, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise software companies scaling their platform organizations.
How many principal technical architect jobs are remote?
About 80% of principal technical architect openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the seniority and independence the role carries. Cloud architecture and enterprise solution design sub-specialties tend to have the highest share of remote-eligible postings, while embedded product roles more often require on-site presence.
How do you become a principal technical architect?
Start by building deep expertise in one technical domain, such as cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or enterprise integration, then deliberately expand into cross-team design work. Take on architectural decision ownership in your current role, contribute to or lead design reviews, and develop the communication skills needed to align engineering and business stakeholders. Most people reach this level after progressing through senior and staff or lead engineer roles.
Can you get hired as a principal technical architect without prior architect experience?
It is possible if your engineering background includes strong evidence of system-level ownership. Hiring managers often promote candidates who have led design reviews, produced architecture diagrams adopted across teams, or driven platform migrations, even without a formal architect title. Framing your resume around architectural scope and cross-team impact, rather than feature delivery, closes much of the title gap.
What does the principal technical architect interview process look like?
Most processes run three to five rounds and include a recruiter screen, a technical depth interview focused on systems you have designed, a live system design session with senior engineers or architects, and a final round with engineering leadership or the CTO. Some companies add a presentation round where you walk through a past architectural decision, including the trade-offs you considered and the outcome.
Where can I find and apply to principal technical architect jobs?
You can find and apply to principal technical architect jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Find roles that match your background and apply directly to each listing from the page.
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