Product Security Engineer

Job Description

Job DescriptionThe Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity The world is changing fast, and the security engineering space is changing even faster! Corporations, governments, schools, hospitals are in desperate need for digitaltransformation at a rapid space. VMware is driving this transformation for 350,000 customers (which includes 98% of Fortune 500). You wont find another company that offers thebreadth of innovative technology. Now imagine the opportunity to work on securing the products and services which VMware creates on cutting edge technologies. You would beexposed to the broad technology stack which you can break / hack into and help secure. This opportunity provides an endless possibility to learn, grow and flourish as a productsecurity engineer.This product security engineer role is part of the S.C.O.P.E organization, which expands to Security, Compliance, and Privacy Engineering. This organization is responsible for thecomplete security state of all the Products and SaaS offerings from VMware. This includes product security (Blue team/Red team), compliance (FIPS/Common Criteria/etc.),response (externally reported issues/bug bounty/etc.) and data privacy.As part of this role in product security, you will be responsible for identifying security design flaws and vulnerabilities, and offering potential remediation recommendations. Also,you will have the opportunity to collaborate with, but not limited to, security architects, development teams across VMware, and other security engineers in the team, who work onvarious areas such as, virtualization, software-defined networking, cloud security, and Kubernetes.If you have the drive to work on securing the next big thing, we would love to talk!Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing The following is a schedule for the first year of joining: Within 1 month of employment, become competent with VMwares rules, guidelines and standard operating procedures. Within 3 months of employment, learn the product/SaaS offering which you will help secure, the technology stack which they use, become familiar with the attack vectorsin the related domain, and get accustomed to the code base, recent externally reported vulnerabilities, release cycles etc. Within 6 months of employment, work towards becoming competent in handling secure design reviews, threat model activities, scoping penetration testing and performsecurity testing of products/SaaS. Within 1 year of employment, work towards becoming competent in handling multiple products and SaaS offerings, along with automating security test cases.The Work: What type of work will you be doing What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regularbasis As a product security engineer, you will: Work on feature level security assessment Work on product / SaaS offering / Solution level secure design reviews and threat modelling Scope for penetration tests Perform penetration testing at product / SaaS offering / Solution level Perform manual secure code reviews Identify security vulnerabilities and control gaps Provide actionable and practical mitigations to address security vulnerabilities by working closely with the development teamsGenerate penetration test report Analyze externally reported vulnerabilities Automate repeatable security testsBasic qualifications:Experience required 2 - 8 years Penetration testing skills in Web, System, Container, Mobile, Network, and Cloud based technologies Familiarity with SAST and DAST tools Manual secure code review (not limiting to): Java, C/C++, C#, JavaScript, Go, Python Experience with coding/scripting in one or more of the following (not limiting to): Python, Ruby Vulnerability assessmentPreferred qualifications: Secure design reviews and threat modelling CTF experience Public track record of security research like, CVEs, bug bounty recognition, conference presentation Security automation like, (not limited to) Burp suite automation, familiarity with Frida Opensource vulnerability assessment Programming experience in one or more of the following (not limiting to): Java, C/C++, C#, JavaScript Security certifications Bachelors degree in a technical discipline Good verbal and written communication skills,

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