Security Engineer I

Summary

Join HashiCorp as a Product Security Engineer I - Partnerships and contribute to the security of their cloud, self-managed, and community products. You will work closely with Research & Development teams to ensure security is integrated into the development process. This role involves secure architecture design, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and security assessments. You will also contribute to security training, research emerging attack vectors, and assist with third-party audits and bug bounty programs. HashiCorp is a remote-first company, and they are looking for self-starters with 4+ years of security experience or experienced engineers with a desire to learn.

Requirements

• Experience in some of these topic areas
• Secure development practices, and integration into broader engineering activities
• Modern engineering practices, processes, and tools, particularly related to the Go programming language and ecosystem
• Product and service architectures in modern, multi-tenant cloud environments (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS)
• Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Security design / architecture and threat modeling
• Application and infrastructure security testing methodologies and tools
• Vulnerabilities (old and new), and options for defense / mitigation
• Product vulnerability management lifecycle
• Working with and/or supporting product engineering teams

Responsibilities

• Contribute to secure architecture and design of HashiCorp products, across our cloud, self-managed, and community product portfolio
• Work across various R&D teams to prioritize security features and bugs, and ensure implementation and mitigations
• Monitor threats and vulnerabilities impacting HashiCorp products and services; triage reported vulnerabilities, identify mitigations and assess/communicate associated risk
• Act as SME on multiple information security areas (e.g. security architecture, application security, threat modeling etc.)
• Plan & execute security assessments (dynamic testing, static testing, code review, etc) and threat modeling of HashiCorp’s products, services, and associated cloud infrastructure
• Assist in execution of 3rd-party audits, penetration tests, and bug bounty programs
• Contribute to the development of security solutions across the product life-cycle, such as standalone security tools, CI/CD pipeline integrations, product security features/fixes, etc
• Contribute to the creation and delivery of security training
• Research emerging attack vectors and techniques

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of application security topics
• A pragmatic approach to security
• The ability to empathize with engineers and product managers across the company