Senior Application Security Engineer

Overview:

As an Application Security Engineer in Hypori’s Product & Engineering organization, you dedicate your energy to both AppSec and related automation (DevSecOps) responsibilities. You are responsible for actively enabling multiple software engineering teams to continuously improve the security posture of both our products and operational SaaS environments. Tasks include the integration and automation of security tooling in CI/CD pipelines, development of security patterns that facilitate compliance with standards, as well as serving as a subject matter expert and evangelist for the secure development and deployment of Kubernetes-based microservices and cloud-based infrastructure. 

Responsibilities: 

• Maintain a deep understanding of the security aspects of Hypori's product/system architecture and implementation patterns; and participate in design and architecture reviews. 

• Be the go-to AppSec expert for technical software engineering, security, and compliance team members. Contribute to awareness across the product & engineering organization by being a thought leader and enthusiastic evangelist. 

• Develop and maintain software security patterns to enable security/compliance/privacy-by-default engineering, such as: secure coding and configuration standards, code snippets/templates for Infrastructure as Code, hardening of containerized applications, etc. 

• Lead automation and integration of vulnerability management tooling across artifact repositories, container registries, as well as other components of development and build pipelines. 

• Triage vulnerability and compliance testing results for technical implications, validate their applicability, determine exposure in a system/component context, and generate user stories for remediation efforts. 

• Contribute to development and implementation of technical compliance strategies across cloud infrastructure and system components (such as, recommended configurations for FIPS-validated crypto providers and segmentation of network-based information flows). 

• Contribute to hardening efforts of development and QA environments, and the implementation of quality gates and security test suites across development pipelines. 

• Maintain architecture-/engineering-level threat models for system components in active cooperation with engineering teams. 

• Identify and describe application-specific security monitoring use cases for security monitoring & response purposes. 

• Propose updates to security and privacy controls documentation (such as, System Security Plans, authorization boundary diagrams, and data inventories) to ensure system architecture and functions are accurately represented. 

• Participate in ceremonies across multiple scrum teams to provide insights and capture concerns and needs related to application security, privacy, and compliance. 

Qualifications: 

• 5+ years' experience in software engineering (with a focus on backend). 

• Proficient in understanding and explaining the ins and outs of software vulnerabilities across stacks, their potential impact when exploited, and how to mitigate them. 

• Proficient in at least one programming language and one scripting language, as well as building solutions applying infrastructure-as-code principles. 

• Proficient in the security management of cloud infrastructure services and container-based deployments (preferably, AWS and Kubernetes). 

• Proficient in the management of software supply chain security and software security vulnerabilities. 

• Proficient in expressing the concepts, practical application, and typical implementation of identity & access management, applied cryptography, network security, and related security domains. 

• Proficient in expressing implementation requirements for security work in engineering-facing user stories. 

• Common sense, and proficient in concisely articulating both technical risk and the pros & cons of proposed solutions to decision makers and peers. 

• Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines, scrum-based software engineering practices, and rapid prototyping of solutions. 

• Experience with the automation of security and compliance processes, integration of security tooling cross development lifecycles, and centralized management of security findings. 

• Experience in interpreting security and compliance frameworks and standards. 

• Experience with application security testing tools and techniques, and with demonstrating/validating the exploitability of vulnerabilities. 

Pay range: 

$145,000 - $165,000 USD