Application Security Engineer

We are currently looking for an Application Security Engineer to join our Security team in Wrocław!

At Opera, we make web browsers, payment solutions, news aggregation services, and data compression services while ensuring user privacy. Opera’s aim is to give our users the best Internet experience on any device and any platform to our 380 million users worldwide. Our passion is to create products and services which bring the whole world online.

Responsibilities

• Advise on the secure design of our applications and services and participate in threat modelling
• Validate, track, and prioritize security issues
• Design and build internal security tools that help fix security problems
• Participate in security incident response and help improving our SIEM tools
• Provide subject matter expertise on cloud security, application-level security controls, and safe programming practices
• Promote security knowledge across development teams and inspire our security champions

Requirements

• Good understanding of WebSec, NetSec and AppSec
• Social skills necessary to speak publicly, lead meetings, provide trainings
• Experience of implementing and testing security controls in web applications
• Experience of configuring and working with security automation tools
• Good knowledge of at least one modern programming language (Go, Python, Ruby, …)
• Ability to research and work independently on selected tasks, and to be enthusiastic and proactive
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken

About us

Opera is a global web innovator with an engaged and growing base of hundreds of millions of monthly active users who seek a better internet experience. Building on over 25 years of innovation that started with browser products, Opera is now leveraging its brand and highly engaged user base in order to expand its business into new segments. Today, Opera offers users around the world a range of products and services that include PC and mobile browsers, the newsreader Opera News, and apps dedicated to gaming, fintech, e-commerce and classifieds.

Opera is headquartered in Oslo, Norway with major offices in Poland, China, Estonia, Scotland, and Sweden, as well as a presence in many additional countries.Opera is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the “OPRA” ticker symbol.