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Senior Software Engineer, Security Engineering

Senior Software Engineer, Security Engineering

Okta

4 - 9 years

12 - 16 Lacs

bengaluru

Posted:1 week ago| Platform:

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software engineer kubernetes python github pr software development security tools vulnerability management dast git automation security engineering application security kanban jenkins scrum gitlab terraform sast agile aws azure

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Work from Office

Job Type

Full Time

Job Description

We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer, Security Engineering to join our security team. This role will primarily focus on remediating security vulnerabilities, with a specific emphasis on remediating dependency vulnerabilities from various sources supported by in-house automations. The ideal candidate will ensure issues are accurately identified, prioritized, and communicated for remediation, and will also contribute to building and maintaining a centralized CI pipeline that ensures the quality of the fixes. You will play a key role in maintaining our security posture.

Responsibilities:

Build security automations for internal use that enables Security Engineering to operate at high speed and wide scale.
Triaging vulnerabilities identified from different sources such as application security reviews, Pentest, SAST, DAST, and SCA, with a strong focus on validating and remediating open-source dependency vulnerabilities.
Execute the end-to-end dependency remediation process, including:

Analyzing and validating findings from SCA tools like Snyk
Creating and managing Pull Requests (PRs) for dependency upgrades/patches.
Testing and verifying that the upgraded dependencies resolve the vulnerability without introducing regressions.
Automate the process described above as much as possible.

Drive the prioritization and remediation plan for vulnerabilities in partnership with engineering teams.
Contribute to the design and implementation of centralized CI pipelines to embed security throughout the development lifecycle.
Provide support in grooming vulnerability backlog and vulnerability metrics reporting.

Our Ideal Candidate Will Have:

Good understanding of Web application security, identification, and remediation of code and design flaws.
Experience in Building security tooling and automation scripts. Must be very hands on.
Good development experience in at least one of the following: Go and/or Python.
Strong practical experience in remediating third-party and open-source dependency vulnerabilities.
Proficiency with Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools like Snyk and socket.dev.
Solid experience with Git, GitHub, and the Git CLI for source code management, branching, merging, and PR workflows.
Experience in building or maintaining centralized CI/CD pipelines (e.g., using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.).
Good understanding of OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities.
Good Experience in enterprise vulnerability management.
Experience in source code review.
Experience with security tools (SCA, SAST, DAST, Burp Proxy, ZAP Proxy etc.)
Ability to explain complex security issues and their impact to diverse audiences.
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and their security features.
Experience with Agile software development practices. Knowledge of Scrum and Kanban is beneficial. Understanding of Agile estimation and iterative processes.

Also Nice to Have:

Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container security principles.
Experience specifically securing workloads within the AWS ecosystem.
Experience with OWASP Top 10 security vulnerabilities.
Any cloud infrastructure automation skills (Terraform).
Experience with Agile software development practices. Knowledge of Scrum and Kanban is beneficial. Understanding of Agile estimation and iterative processes

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