Application Security Engineer

Overview:

Wage:

Up to $175,000/year

Benefits:

• 100% employer-paid medical, dental and vision for employees
• Annual review with raise option
• 22 days Paid Time Off accrued annually, and 4 holidays
  • After 3 years, PTO increases to 29 days. Employees transition to flexible time off after 5 years with the company—not accrued, not capped, take time off when you want
  • The 4 holidays are: New Year’s Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day
• Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Up to 5% company matching 401(k) with no vesting period
• Quarterly allowance
  • Use to make your remote work set up more comfortable, for continuing education classes, a plant for your desk, coffee for your coworker, a massage for yourself... really, whatever
• Open concept office with friendly coworkers
• Creative environment where you can make a difference
• No dumb benefits like free dog walking on the weekends that snobby hipster places have to make you feel cool, but mathematically won't cost the company much money because you won't use it
• Trail Mix Bar --- oh yeah

Responsibilities:

• Understand and safely use various open source penetration testing tools and when appropriate, emulating hacker tactics, techniques, procedures
• Create security vulnerability reports for both technical and executive audiences
• While in-between assessments, you will be expected to help our security engineers think through solutions to problems you find
• Automate tasks and script at a basic level to enhance penetration testing processes
• Passion for learning new technologies and processes, and contributing to refining existing capabilities
• Communicate with stakeholders (technical and non-technical), both verbal and written
• Stay up to date on 0 day exploits for tech stacks we use

Requirements:

• Solid fundamentals in webapp and network pentesting (2+ years). Pentesting experience in mobile apps, APIs, and/or cloud environments a bonus
• 4+ years of professional experience in Ruby on Rails or equivalent and Vue or a Frontend equivalent framework
• Experience with Linux and cloud environment testing
• Understanding of security issues for desktop, virtual, cloud services and network infrastructures
• Working knowledge of information systems security standards/practices (e.g., access control and system hardening, system audit and log file monitoring, security policies, and incident handling)
• Experience with secure network protocols and encryption of communications between networked hosts
• Experience in IT systems and security policies, standards, industry trends, and techniques
• Experience with assessing APT threats, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Management, attack methodologies, forensics analysis techniques, malware analysis, attack surface comprehension, Cyber Threat Emulation operations, Cyber Advanced Threat Emulation Team operations and research, identification, and/or verification of new APT TTPs
• Fundamental understanding of security knowledge of testing mobile, native applications, web applications, distributed and database systems
• Must be detail-oriented and possess strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyze for potential future issues
• Solid understanding of common webapp vulnerabilities, exploitation techniques, and remediation options