Software Engineer II, Application Security

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San Diego, CA

Software Engineer II, Application Security

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!

As a member of our automation team in Product Security, you will craft, develop software services to realize true automated application security in order to protect our customers, our product and our business.

Strong technical background and analytical thinking is expected, and the ideal candidate will be heavily involved in designing, creating and maintaining Java, Javascript and React code, as well as providing component and system level designs for Application Security automation.

Responsibilities

• Work with other architects and engineers to plan and design how engineering components will fit together
• Design and implement Web Application and RESTful Web Services API for DevSecOps
• Research and integrate security solutions to our system
• Onboard internal applications to DevSecOps pipeline
• Produce excellent, detailed design and development documentation
• Work under tight time constraints and respond to rapidly evolving requirements
• Collaborate with others in development technologies, tools, and processes
• Contributes to feature analysis from an engineering perspective
• Drives technical objectives and architectural initiatives

Qualifications

• 5+ years of proven programming experience in Java (or equivalent enterprise back-end) developing web server applications, object oriented design and design patterns, and passionate about writing high quality and well-architected code
• Experience in building high-performance web services. Experience with design and implementation of modern web app architecture or web services architecture and API frameworks
• Experience with public cloud design like AWS, Azure or GCE
• Ability to technical deep dive into code and deployment
• Strong understanding of engineering standard methodologies – requirement gathering and analysis, design and develop secure and scalable code with unit tests, participate in code reviews and documentation, experience with multiple technology stacks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent; Master's degree a plus.

Useful but not required

• Experience to integrate tools in CI/CD pipeline
• Experience with Application Security Tool like SAST, SCA, and DAST
• Experience with multiple development methodologies such as Agile, DevOps etc.
• Experience with ReactJS
• Data Processing including SQL

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