Sr. Security Engineer

Introduction

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Your role and responsibilities

We are looking for a senior-level Product Security Engineer to help scale our software supply chain and application security functions, providing innovative solutions across the HashiCorp suite of industry-leading products available as cloud, self-managed, and community offerings.

At HashiCorp, we're on a mission to enable organizations to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application. Our security team plays a critical role in this mission by ensuring the security and integrity of our products throughout their lifecycle.

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 while also collaborating effectively across engineering, product, and security teams.

In this role, your responsibilities will include :

• Contribute to solutions that secure the software supply chain for HashiCorp products, across our cloud, self-managed, and community product portfolio.
• Monitor supply chain security threats and vulnerabilities impacting HashiCorp products and services, develop mitigations, and assess / communicate associated risks to stakeholders.
• Serve as subject matter expert (SME) on multiple supply chain and application security areas (e.g., ASPM, SCA, SAST, DAST, container security, etc.)
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of security solutions across the product life-cycle, such as standalone security tools, CI / CD pipeline integrations, and vulnerability management systems.
• Research emerging supply chain attack vectors and techniques, helping identify potential threats to HashiCorp's products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement security standards and participate in secure code reviews.

The product security supply chain and application security team is composed of security engineers working to ensure HashiCorp delivers secure software to its customers. We provide tools and services that support product engineering teams at HashiCorp, embedding security into the development processes. We are primarily responsible for security scanning, secure code review, application security posture management, and contributing to vulnerability management across our entire product portfolio.

This role offers opportunities to :

We're looking for a candidate with strong written and verbal communication skills, knowledge of supply chain and application security topics, who brings a pragmatic approach to security, and has the ability to empathize with engineers and product managers across the company.

Please note, as communication is a critical aspect of how we work, a cover letter is a great way to provide a sample of how you communicate. In your cover letter, describe why you're interested in working at HashiCorp, and what draws you to this role in particular.

Required education

High School Diploma / GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Preferred technical and professional experience

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.