Application Security Specialist

At Deliveroo, it is our mission to build the definitive food company. In order to do that, we’re building a company that is secure and protects the data and money of our customers, employees and investors.   

As an Application Security Specialist, you’ll work closely with IT and engineering teams on a day-to-day basis to ensure applications and products have been developed securely. There will be a constant need for you to get hands-on to identify or help resolve issues whilst looking at ways to drive automation and consistency in adopting a mature approach to security.   

Reporting to the Head of Product Security, this hands-on technical role will be working on a range of security projects and activities. You will be directly influencing the security posture of many applications and products across the company to ensure that security plays a key part in the development and engineering life cycles. 

What you’ll be doing

• Act as one of the central points of contact with the business with regards to the secure software development lifecycle of applications and products.
• Work with key stakeholders to ensure that security is built into the design of applications and products across the business. 
• Drive the adoption of DevSecOps throughout the company. 
• Integrate and maintain key security controls and technologies for the Security team in order to support DevSecOps. 
• Analyse applications and products to identify key security risks, and recommend and drive security improvements using a risk based approach. 
• Support vulnerability assessments and security testing. 
• Support the Security Risk Management function on security policies and standards, security audits, vulnerability compliance, and risk management.
• Work on the product security engagement plan, to educate engineers by scaling up security champions, implementing a framework for security best practice, threat modelling, and security input into design reviews.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Application Security.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
• Security certifications ( CISSP, CEH, SANS, CREST, OCSP )
• Experience in securing Cloud native web applications, mobile applications, infrastructure, etc. and supporting frameworks across e.g. OWASP Top 10.
• Writes code (e.g, Python, Go, NodeJS, Rust, Swift / Kotlin ) and builds tools and integrations.
• Experience with Security tools ( Checkmarx, Snyk, Cloudflare, AWS GuardDuty, AWS Inspector, Crowdstrike ) 
• Extensive experience with version control and CI/CD pipeline ( gitlab, GitHub, CircleCI, bitrise ).
• Worked on s-SDLC in a large enterprise organization(s).
• Broad knowledge of the security technologies and capabilities used in an enterprise, particularly in a high growth, cloud based environment. 
• Experience with cloud security such as AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Registries, containers, etc. 

Preferred, but not required:

• A mix of consulting and industry experience. 
• Experience with Bug bounty programmes.  

Why Deliveroo?

Our mission is to be the definitive food company. We are transforming the way the world eats by making food more convenient and accessible. We give people the opportunity to eat what they want, when and where they want it.

We are a technology-driven company at the forefront of the most rapidly expanding industry in the world. We are still a small team, making a very large impact, seeking to answer some of the most interesting questions out there. We move fast, value autonomy and ownership, and we are always looking for new ideas.

Workplace & Diversity

At Deliveroo we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including health, family, finance, community, convenience, growth, time away and relocation.

We believe a great workplace is one that represents the world we live in and how beautifully diverse it can be. That means we have no judgement when it comes to any one of the things that make you who you are - your gender, race, sexuality, religion or a secret aversion to coriander. All you need is a passion for (most) food and a desire to be part of one of the fastest growing startups in an incredibly