Staff Software Engineer - Cybersecurity

• Provide technical leadership for cybersecurity program strategy, software development, integration decisions, analyzing design constraints and trade-offs in system and security design

• Lead design, development, and delivery of security solutions to drive Vulnerability Management initiatives.

• Deliver automation initiatives, conduct advanced research, and develop proofs of concept to enhance our security capabilities and improve overall efficiency

• Achieve security business outcomes through force multiplication

• Develop, integrate, and maintain multilevel cybersecurity designs, architectures, policies, and procedures

• Provide secure design guidance and recommendations to developers, infrastructure, and product engineers

• Influence and educate partner teams to bring an engineering first approach to develop sustainable security systems.

• Mentor peers and team members in security technologies, enterprise solution design, deployment, and effective customer interaction

• Provide motivating demonstrations and communications to show the value of our security measures to the business, highlighting the low impact on systems, improved operability and resiliency

• Tech-lead with full-stack software development and DevSecOps experience in a hybrid environment (AWS, Azure, on-prem)

• Development and leadership in Cybersecurity domain, preferably in Vulnerability Management Engineering

• Specialization with at least one modern language such as Java, Go, Python or C#, and a scripting language

• Extensive knowledge and experience of building data intensive large-scale distributed systems on cloud

• ​Experience building the architecture and design of new and current systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) 

• ​Fluency in DevOps concepts and best practices in CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as a code

• ​Experience with application performance monitoring tools and performance assessments

• Ability to design, implement, deploy, and operate systems to solve complex security problems in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

• 8+ years of non-internship professional software engineering experience of building large-scale distributed systems

• 4+ years of experience with architecture and design in a tech lead role

• 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud providers

• 3+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

• Foundational knowledge of security best practices for system design and development

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education with work experience

Annual Salary

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

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