Software Engineering Manager, Application Security

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Software Engineering Manager, Application Security

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!

Come lead a team of application security engineers working in multi-disciplined teams and with other engineering leaders in a fast-paced and fun environment.

This team develops in-house security solutions to store all scan results from multiple security scanners and test results, and provide APIs for CI/CD team to check the latest security review status so that CI/CD can break a build, if the result doesn’t meet release criteria.

Key Responsibilities

• Mentor, manage and hire a team of software engineers in the application security automation team.
• Draw from your own experience to guide the team to solve complex engineering assignments.
• Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes.
• Help to set the engineering agenda through the technical product vision.
• Collaborate with other engineers, consultants and leadership to address issues during development and provide recommendations.
• Collaborate with the secure development lifecycle (a.k.a SDL) team to achieve an efficient / scalable SDL.
• Integrate security process into the development pipeline and work with engineering and business stakeholders to continue to automate security practices within application development.
• Perform validation of security controls to ensure consistency with compliance and industry standard methodologies.
• Ability to understand business requirements in SDL team and let team design and develop functions appropriately with wider angle view.
• High level of personal integrity, with the ability to professionally handle confidential matters, and reflect appropriate level of judgment as it pertains to security.
• Leading includes keeping better communication with other specialists and leadership in order to conduct other job duties in the above as a team.

Qualifications

• Leading teams of 4+ engineers.
• Experience with team building and mentoring engineers.
• 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.
• Firm understanding of enterprise class application architectures that are highly scalable and reliable and the ability to secure them.
• Experience with multiple languages such as Java, Go, Python and Perl etc.
• Experience with AWS.

Desired Experience

• Leading a team of engineers in a global capacity
• Experience with multiple development methodologies such as Agile, DevOps etc.
• Software Engineering Experience
• Knowledge of Application Security Tools like SAST, SCA, DAST scanner
• Excellent analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.

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