Senior Application Security Engineer- Web Security

United States, San Francisco, CA

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Senior Application Security Engineer

San Diego, CA OR San Francisco, CA

Do you want to help bring PlayStation technology to a worldwide audience? Are you passionate about securing infrastructure that constantly pushes the boundary of the gaming industry? Are you ready to work with innovative technology, forward-thinking engineers, and a passionate security team? If so, join us!

The position is a hands-on application security engineering role for someone who likes working in multi-disciplined teams and with other sharp engineers in a fast-paced and fun environment.

You will provide expert technical guidance and hands on validation of secure solutions during the design, development, and testing of systems supporting the PlayStation products and services.

As a Sr. Application Security Engineer in the Product Security team it is also expected to be the domain specialist in one or several parts within the Secure Development Lifecycle program to mentor and empower other members in the team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Leading projects involving the teams to set up multiple security tools.
  • Leading security improvement project in US, EU, Japan and Asia regions.
  • Leads improvement of security processes for outside engineering teams.
  • Triage and recommend solutions for security defects from security tools and bug bounty.
  • Communicating to outside engineering senior leadership and determining cause and proposing solutions for active incidents or issues.
  • Leading an offshore team to improve and manage the security process.
  • Collaborate with engineers, consultants and leadership to address security risks and provide mitigation recommendations within the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
  • Perform security architecture and design reviews of all systems and applications.
  • Perform validation of security controls to ensure consistency with compliance and industry standard methodologies.
  • Perform hands on security testing of products and services to proactively discover risks and supervise them to resolution.
  • Understand, balance and communicate business risk with security risk.
  • Ability to understand business requirements and apply security without adversely affecting the desired functionality.
  • High level of personal integrity, with the ability to professionally handle confidential matters, and reflect appropriate level of judgment as it pertains to security.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years previous experience in information security.
  • 2+ years’ experience working within software development.
  • A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Security/Cyber Security or equivalent.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills, as well as social skills including the ability to articulate to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Able to work both independently as well with development teams and multi-task effectively.
  • Firm understanding of enterprise class application architectures that are highly scalable and reliable and the ability to secure them.
  • Experience of security architecture and design reviews.
  • Experience with multiple languages such as Java, Go, Python and Perl etc. and understand how to detect and remedy related security issues such as OWASP top 10.
  • Experience with AWS and Akamai technologies.
  • Experience with UNIX and LINUX operating systems.
  • Experience with securing host, database, and application solutions for multi-tier systems.

Desired Experience

  • Knowledge of Network protocols(HTTP, DNS, SSL/TLS, UDP and TCP)
  • Excellent analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.
  • Experience with Penetration Testing.
  • Knowledge of automated attack tools and developing mitigation techniques.
  • Hacker Mindset and always strives to think like an attacker.
  • Technical certifications within information security are a plus (CISSP, CCSP, GIAC or equivalents).
  • Experience with multiple development methodologies such as Agile, DevOps etc.

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Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

* Salary range is an estimate based on our InfoSec / Cybersecurity Salary Index 💰

Tags: Agile Application security AWS CCSP CISSP Compliance Computer Science DevOps DNS GIAC Java Linux OWASP Pentesting Perl Product security Python SDLC TLS UNIX

Perks/benefits: Career development

Region: North America
Country: United States
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