Senior Security Engineer - remote

Posted 3 years ago

Your Day to Day / Things You May Work On

  • Architect secure-by-default frameworks and infrastructure, ensuring the easy path is also the secure path
  • Help shape the security roadmap at both a strategic and tactical level
  • Identify security flaws in technologies and processes through design reviews, code reviews, active penetration testing, and the establishment of practical security baselines
  • Develop and operate tools to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to security threats
  • Reproduce vulnerability findings from multiple sources---including penetration tests, tooling, and external reports---and communicate the risk associated with those findings to the business
  • Educate the company on security best practices by providing training and acting as a subject matter expert and mentor

The Experience We Are Looking For

  • A strong interest in security and a curiosity for how things work
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in a relevant field of study (or equivalent experience)
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • 3+ years of professional software security experience
  • Development experience in Node.js, C#, Ruby, and/or Go
  • Hands-on working experience with
    • Penetration testing tools (e.g. Burp Suite, Nessus, Metasploit, or similar)
    • DevOps (e.g. Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, monitoring tools, networking, git, etc.)
  • A talent for communicating complex ideas in an easily-understandable way