Senior Engineer, Application Security (R6290)

About the role

Responsibilities

• As an application security engineer for Hivemind you will join our cybersecurity engineering team to help define our application security policies, deploy and configure scanning tools within our CI/CD pipelines, review scanning results and work directly with our developers to identify and fix security issues in or code.
• In addition, you will have the opportunity to help solve security issues before they start by working with our architecture team to design a secure-by-default software product, performing threat modeling, and validating designs meet our secure coding standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with approximately 5+ years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree with approximately 4+ years of relevant experience, in cybersecurity, software engineering, or a closely related technical field
• Experience developing or testing cyber secure code
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, configuration management, and software lifecycle processes
• Familiarity with threat modeling
• Experience with software analysis tools, including static analysis, dynamic analysis, dependency mapping, CVE scanning, etc.
• Comfortable working in a Linux development environment
• Strong organizational, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Basic understanding of key cryptography concepts
• Previous experience on an application security team for a large, complex software product
• Experience as a DevSecOps engineer, especially in a GitLab environment
• Experience writing software or testing Python, C/C++, and/or Go
• Red-teaming experience
• Software reverse engineering skills