Principal C++ Security Systems Engineer, Enterprise Trust

What you'll do

• Define and drive the technical roadmap for memory safety in Photoshop’s large C++ codebase.
• Lead security design reviews for high-risk areas such as parsers, plug-ins, scripting, and customer data handling.
• Establish secure-by-design patterns that teams can adopt without slowing product velocity.
• Own the technical strategy for generating accurate SBOMs across first-party code and third-party dependencies.
• Improve dependency governance to enhance software supply chain security and vulnerability management.

What we're looking for

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with large-scale, performance-sensitive C++ systems
• Deep expertise in modern C++, native application architecture, debugging, memory management, and legacy codebases
• Strong understanding of memory safety issues, static analysis, fuzzing, sanitizers, compiler hardening, and secure coding practices
• Experience securing complex desktop or client software, including sandboxing, process isolation, privilege boundaries, and secure IPC
• Proven ability to integrate security tooling into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows
• Strong threat-modeling skills with the capacity to reason about realistic attacker capabilities
• Ability to influence senior engineers and leaders without direct authority and communicate effectively with technical and executive audiences