Senior Product Security Architect

About Gong

At Gong, we’re transforming customer-facing teams with our AI-powered platform that understands conversations, guides sales professionals, and drives better business outcomes. Security and trust are foundational to everything we build.

As a Product Security Architect, you will shape how security is built, not just review it. You’ll work closely with engineering to influence architecture, guide design decisions, and ensure security is embedded across Gong’s platform from the earliest stages where decisions matter most, not just where they are validated. You’ll take on complex, real-world challenges across cloud-native systems and AI-driven features, where security must evolve alongside scale and speed. This role is not about checklists or gatekeeping, but about applying strong technical judgment, making pragmatic trade-offs, and enabling teams to build secure systems by design. If you’re looking to have a meaningful impact on a real product, collaborate with high-caliber engineering teams, and help define modern product security at scale, you’ll find this role both challenging and rewarding.

What Makes This Role Unique at Gong

• A product where security decisions truly matter - Gong processes and analyzes highly sensitive customer conversations at scale, creating unique challenges around data protection, privacy, and trust.
• AI is core to the product, not a side project - You’ll work in an environment where AI/ML is deeply embedded, addressing real-world security challenges that go beyond traditional application security.
• A platform operating at a meaningful scale -  You’ll deal with high-volume data, distributed systems, and production environments where security decisions have immediate and visible impact.
• The opportunity to shape a growing security domain -  Product security at Gong is still evolving, giving you the ability to influence direction, introduce new ideas, and build things the right way.
• A culture that values practical, engineering-driven security - Security is approached with a focus on real risk and practical solutions, not just compliance or process.
• High ownership with room to grow - You’ll have the autonomy to take initiative, drive changes, and expand your impact as the company and platform continue to scale.

 

What You’ll Do

• Shape security architecture where it matters most, partner with engineers early in the design phase to influence system architecture, define secure patterns, and make critical decisions before code is written
• Work hands-on with engineering teams to secure real systems  review designs, dive into code and PRs when needed, and build small tools or proofs-of-concept to validate security assumptions
• Lead threat modeling and deep design reviews  identify trust boundaries, abuse cases, and high-impact attack paths, and ensure controls hold up in real production environments
• Own security design for authentication, authorization, and APIs, including identity flows (OAuth/OIDC), session management, and mu