Product Security Engineer II

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions.

We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native

software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers.

We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and customer outcomes.

This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud

and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure

enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

About This Team

The Product Security Platform Partnerships team is composed of security engineers working to ensure HashiCorp delivers secure software to its

customers. We work closely with product engineering teams at HashiCorp, enabling them to write secure code and embed security into the

development processes. We are responsible for design review, threat modeling, and code review of new features, as well as vulnerability

management across our entire product portfolio.

Your Role And Responsibilities

We are looking for a Product Security Engineer II to help scale our product security function, partnering closely with Research & Development

teams to ensure that security is appropriately addressed across the HashiCorp suite of cloud, self-managed, and community products.

Security at HashiCorp is largely a remote team. While prior experience working remotely isn't required, we are looking for team members who

perform well given a high level of independence and autonomy.

In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Include

• 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. This job can be performed from anywhere in the US
  
  

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 4+ Years of Security experience.
• Secure development practices, and integration into broader engineering activities.
• Security design / architecture and threat modeling.
• 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).
• Secure operations practices, specifically in cloud environments.
• Authentication and Identity management (e.g. SAML, SSO, OIDC, SCIM, etc) security best practices
• 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.
• Security audits, penetration tests, and/or bug bounty programs.
• Cryptography and cryptographic primitives.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Modern engineering practices, processes, and tools, particularly related to the Go programming language and ecosystem.
• Knowledge of application security topics, a pragmatic approach to security, and the ability to empathize with engineers and product managers across the company