What if you could change the way the world communicates? And make it secure at the same time? 

What if you had the freedom of a startup and the resources of a global enterprise?

You’d break new ground. Raise the bar for performance. And do career-defining work. 

That’s exactly the kind of environment we’re building together at RingCentral.

RingCentral's cloud-based communications platform connects more than 2 million users around the world, in ways that bring people, ideas, companies and customers together. 

The CISO team is the engine that drives and helps implement security standards for RingCentral. By partnering closely with Product & Technology, we work with teams from Engineering to UX/UI to CloudOps, to help come up with the biggest ideas in secure cloud communications that are imagined, developed, and delivered. If there’s a better way to bring people together, RingCentral is finding it, iterating on it, and sharing it with the world.

RingCentral surrounds you with world-class technology and talent, in a people-first environment built from the ground up to help you do the best work of your career. We’re not just changing the nature of communication and teamwork. We’re winning, together.

As a member of the RingCentral CISO team, you’ll help define and drive the security standards and disciplines required for complex, business-critical problems supported with elegant, user-friendly solutions that perform at massive scale. It’s a once-in-a-career chance to get your hands on the latest-and-greatest technologies, and build the platform that’s reshaping the way the world communicates. 

As a Senior Cloud Security Architect you will oversee the security architecture design and discipline for our cutting edge video and audio conferencing products. This is a great opportunity to lead, partner and collaborate with elite engineering teams to drive the security side of these highly visible products that are used at massive scale by largest enterprises.

You possess deep technical knowledge and will be tasked with the most challenging product security requirements for end user facing functionalities.

Responsibilities

• Report directly to RingCentral CISO, responsible for overall security and privacy by design aspects of RingCentral products and applications 

• Partner with Chief Privacy Officer and CPO team to ensure product data handling supports new and emerging privacy regulations and standards 

• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering and Analytics teams to ensure RingCentral products, applications and tools support both security architecture and secure development standards 

• Defining and driving security and privacy aware SDLC discipline across all organizations

• Identify gaps in existing security architecture and collaborate with engineering to design, review and approve changes or enhancements

• Enforce security guardrails for all RingCentral products and applications 

• Lead security risk assessments for proposed cloud and endpoint designs, architectures and solutions

• Partner with application security testing team for tool/automation-based and hands on testing focus, finding assessment and remediation 

• Provide vulnerability remediation design and solutions

• Provide clear, risk-based assessments of product security maturity including areas for improvement and if needed, identify stop-ship situations 

• Collaboration with Cloud platform and product architecture teams to embed security standards

Must-Have:

• Expertise with product security design, review, implementation including threat modelling and risk assessment implications 

• Extensive experience with Cloud Application Architecture and Development

• Secure design and implementation capabilities

• Proven track record implementing S-SDLC on organizational level

• Security fundamentals including Identity and Access Management, Key and identity management / PKI, Database architecture, Logging and Log management, Network architecture, Firewall/IDS/DDoS 

• Experience with Open Source Software including lifecycle management, vulnerability management 

• Deep understanding of deployment architectures, including Kubernetes and VM based systems, including image management, for applications deployed in third party cloud and CoLo environments 

• Understanding and experience with external regulatory requirements and their impact on architecture, including FedRAMP, HITRUST, Financial Services requirements 

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written; ability to condense complicated scenarios into simple, risk-based assessments, appropriately targeted for colleagues and upper management 

• Outstanding organizational and time management skills, desire to work within a highly collaborative team

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of technical experience in product architecture, design, implementation 

Nice-To-Have:

• WebRTC, Video and audio streaming

• Chat/Messaging

• Video codecs

• Cryptography

• B.S. or equivalent in CS or EE

Benefits and Amenities:

• All

About RingCentral

RingCentral is the worldwide leader in cloud-based communications. Our software communications platform delivers phone, group chat, mobile communications, video calls, videoconference, contact center and AI-driven digital engagement. It’s a powerful, global presence that allows businesses to communicate anywhere, anytime with anyone. 

RingCentral is headquartered in Belmont, California and has offices around the world. 

RingCentral is an equal opportunity employer that truly values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.