Hybrid Application Security Engineer

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About the role

  • Application Security Engineer joining Benchling's team to secure some of society's most sensitive data in biotech. Focusing on enhancing security practices while collaborating with engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Building and integrating external and internal security tools and automation into development and build environments.
  • Developing lightweight processes to embed security in the SDLC workflow.
  • Collaborating with engineers on the best ways to mitigate vulnerabilities and reduce risk.
  • Performing code reviews of our services and apps.
  • Partnering with both the Product Design and Software Engineering organization's security and privacy initiatives, leading security design reviews, and threat modeling.
  • Participating in our incident response and vulnerability remediation efforts.
  • Developing secure coding and design practices and training engineering teams.
  • Performing black-box and gray-box penetration testing of our applications and services.

Requirements

  • 2+ years work experience in an application security or product security role including experience with secure code reviews, threat modeling, pentesting, application security tooling and automation.
  • Strong communicator with the ability to translate technical security requirements and risks into terms that anyone can understand.
  • Experience finding AND fixing web application security vulnerabilities including those found in the OWASP Top 10 and CWE Top 25.
  • Experience with at least one scripting language, preferably Python
  • Knowledge of the browser security model, modern network security, AI and cloud (AWS ideally) security is a plus.
  • Experience with vulnerability management and risk assessment processes is a plus.

Benefits

  • Full-time U.S. employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits program including equity, health, dental, vision, 401(k)+ employer match, wellness, commuter, and more.

Job title

Application Security Engineer

Job type

Experience level

JuniorMid level

Salary

$147,000 - $200,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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