Senior Security Engineer

Summary

Join Kitestring, a growing tech company, as a Senior Application Security Engineer. You will be a technical expert, performing design reviews, security assessments, and code reviews to enhance product security. You'll collaborate with various teams, ensuring security is integrated into development. This role demands deep technical knowledge and strong communication skills. Kitestring offers excellent benefits, including unlimited PTO, parental leave, healthcare, a matching 401k, and H1B/Perm sponsorship.

Requirements

• Develop and implement advanced security techniques according to the technical architecture of our firm
• Perform regular security testing as well as code reviews to improve software security
• Troubleshoot and debug issues as soon as they arise
• Maintain technical documentation related to software security
• Provide engineering solutions to mitigate security vulnerabilities in new software initiatives
• Ensure software security at all levels of architecture
• Continuous alignment with the latest tools and advanced industry practices for software security
• Industry certifications such as OSCP, CCSP, SSCP, CISSP

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary technical security resource on product development
• Perform design reviews and technical security assessments to highlight risk and help engineering teams improve the overall security of our products
• Design and implement security best practices and standards across varied engineering teams and environments
• Implement and conduct code reviews with a combination of static testing, manual reviews, and dynamic analysis / pen-testing
• Conduct threat modeling, identify & drive risk decisions, and influence technical designs and architectures
• Engage with developers to initiate and support remediation
• Perform security reviews of new services and features
• Build tools to simplify and automate Vulnerability Management processes
• Provide engineering designs to mitigate security vulnerabilities in new software solutions
• Design and implement tooling and automation for application security (e.g. SAST/DAST in CI/CD)
• Perform regular security testing as well as code reviews to improve software security
• Maintain technical documentation related to software security
• Ensure software security at all levels of architecture
• Stay updated with the latest tools and advanced industry practices for software security
• Advocate for security culture and educate colleagues across all parts of the company

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Network Security, or a related field with 10+ years of related industry experience
• Demonstrated excellent technical writing skills and project/program management experience
• Multiple language skills are a plus

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Maternal/Paternal Leave Policy
• Healthcare Benefits for Spouse, Domestic Partner, and Dependents
• Matching 401k 2-1 up to 4%
• H1B and Perm Sponsorship