Principal Software Security Engineer

There are 2 actors on a network, people and machines. Just as usernames and passwords are used by people to access machines, machine identities are used by machines to identify and access each other. Venafi is the inventor of the technology that manages and protects machine identities, the most important security initiative in our Global 5000 customers. We are Warriors!

Are you passionate about making a positive impact and protecting the world from cybercriminals? If so, you may be a natural Venafi Warrior!

How you’ll be protecting the world:

As a Principal Software Security Engineer at Venafi, you’ll be part of an extremely motivated, dedicated, and experienced team that protects many of the largest organizations in the world.

A Principal Software Security Engineer plays a leadership role in creating and establishing a Security Always culture at Venafi. You will work as an integral part of the engineering organization to ensure that Venafi’s software is developed in consonance with fastsecure principles from inception to delivery. As a leader within the engineering organization, you will play a very broad role in creating and implementing the security strategy in collaboration with the development and product organization.

The Ideal Warrior will be armed with:

• Be the lead voice for evangelizing a Security Always culture.
• Collaborate with Product Architect(s) on the design of security related features.
• Lead the selection of security software technologies used by Venafi’s products.
• Lead security design and code reviews.
• Define secure coding patterns for a variety of programming languages.
• Establish best practices for security related tests / testing patterns.
• Lead the analysis, mitigation and response to critical security issues that arise.
• Collaborate with development teams to establish principles and practices for securing Venafi’s software supply chain.

What sets you apart:

• MS/PhD (CS, or equivalent) with 8+ years of experience, or BS (CS, or equivalent) with 10+ years of experience, or 12+ years of relevant experience.
• 10+ years of experience in development of mission critical software (SaaS experience a big plus).
• Experience with secure design principles and in implementing security related functionality and testing.
• Demonstrated skills with security frameworks, defense strategies, security tools and protocols.
• Ability to effectively communicate security issues to technical and non-technical audiences.

While you are busy protecting the world, we’ve got you covered!

In addition to fostering a work environment with strong work from anywhere ethic, Venafi offers a benefits package that is in the top 1%.  We provide 100% employer-paid premiums for both team members and their families. That includes health, dental, and vision insurance. YES, REALLY! We offer four weeks of PTO (Paid Time Off), eleven holidays, and four "pick your own community service" days. We also offer 401(k) and company matching, company HSA contribution, 2x salary employer-paid life insurance, and parental leave. We even offer pet insurance!

More About Venafi:

Venafi is the undisputed leader in Machine Identity Management. Why? Because we created the category and are light years ahead of anyone that would consider competing! Gartner has recognized Venafi as number one in our space and as it turns out, one is NOT the loneliest number!

Venafi is the inventor of the technology that secures and protects machine identities. The Venafi platform provides visibility, intelligence, and automation for SSL/TLS, IoT, mobile, cloud native, Kubernetes, and SSH machine identity types. Many of the largest organizations in the world use Venafi.

Billions of dollars have been spent protecting usernames and passwords and almost nothing managing machine identities—organizations are just now realizing that managing and protecting machine identities is as important as managing usernames and passwords. The bad guys know this and are using stolen or forged machine identities in their cyberattacks. In fact, Gartner says 50% of network attacks will use machine identities.

Come help us protect the world!

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