Lead Application Security Engineer

At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world.  

Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide.

No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us.

The Security Department oversees security, compliance, GRC, and security operations for all Agoda. We are vigilant in ensuring there is no breach or vulnerability threatening our company or endangering our employees in order to keep Agoda safe and protected. This would be a great challenge for those who want to work with the best technology in a dynamic and advanced environment.

The Opportunity:
You will be working in a fast paced DevSecOps environment where code change happens at a rapid speed and where it is paramount to control security testing into a continuous deployment/integration flow.

In this Role, you’ll get to:

• Play a lead role in developing and designing application-level security controls and standards.
• Perform application security design reviews against new products and services.
• Track and prioritize all security issues.
• Build internal security tools that help fix security problems at scale.
• Perform code review and drive remediation of discovered issues.
• Enable automated security testing at scale to measure vulnerability, and report on risk across all microservice, web and mobile platforms.
• Execute security tests on thousands of servers which are spread across on-premise and public cloud data centers.

• Strong foundations in software engineering.
• Minimum of 7 years of technical experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security.
• Minimum 2 years experience with Software Development Life Cycle in one or more languages (Rust, Python, Go, Nodejs, etc.)
• Minimum 1 year experience with public/private cloud environments (Openshift, Rancher, K8s, AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Experience in running assessments using OWASP MASVS and ASVS.
• Working knowledge on exploiting and fixing application vulnerabilities.
• Strong background in threat modeling.
• In-depth knowledge of common web application vulnerabilities (i.e. OWASP Top 10).
• Familiarity with automated dynamic scanners, fuzzers, and proxy tools.
• An analytical mind for problem solving, abstract thought, and offensive security tactics.
• Highly effective communication skills, in both verbal and written forms, to effectively convey technical and non-technical concepts to a wide variety of audiences

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At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics.

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