Principal Security Engineer

Summary

Join GoDaddy's Product Security group as a Principal Security Engineer and become an Information Security Leader. Solve large-scale, cross-company issues while partnering with development and operational teams. Apply technical skills, leadership abilities, and problem-solving expertise to design solutions. Communicate effectively with stakeholders, perform security assessments, prioritize risks, and create high-quality deliverables. This is a remote position, with occasional office visits for events or offsites. The position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands and is not currently considering candidates in California, Seattle, or NYC.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive security engineering experience across Security Architecture, Cryptography, Network, Cloud, Mobile, and Web Security
• Skilled in Secure Development Lifecycle, Security by Design, and Shift Left methodologies
• Proficient in Threat Modeling, Architecture Review, Penetration Testing, Code Review, SAST, and DAST
• Strong scripting abilities in languages such as Python, C, C++, Java, Ruby, and PowerShell
• Adept at applying security best practices for compliance, with excellent problem-solving and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Identify security threats in applications and infrastructure and provide remediation mentorship to system owners
• Join forces with SRE and development teams to find new and creative ways to reduce the occurrence of vulnerabilities at scale
• Build repeatable/reusable security processes and frameworks
• Review quality issues and work towards detecting security flaws both obvious and discrete
• Assist with scoping prospective projects, participating in projects from kickoff through “definition of done” via end-to-end ownership
• Use your industry experience to own and drive resolution and retest complex security events, policy questions and technical security risks

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field
• Hosting industry and/or cloud Experience
• Experience in hardware security

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes)
• Bonus/incentive eligibility
• Equity grants
• Participation in our employee stock purchase plan
• Competitive health benefits
• Other family-friendly benefits including parental leave