Sr. Security engineer – Opportunity for Working Remotely Cheyenne, WY – VMware – Cheyenne, WY
- Full Time
- Cheyenne, WY

VMware
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The world is changing fast, and the security engineering space is changing even faster! Corporations, governments, schools, hospitals are in desperate need for digital
transformation at a rapid space. VMware is driving this transformation for 350,000 customers (which includes 98% of Fortune 500). You won’t find another company that offers the breadth of innovative technology. Now imagine the opportunity to work on securing the products and services which VMware creates on cutting edge technologies. You would be exposed to the broad technology stack which you can break / hack into and help secure. This opportunity provides an endless possibility to learn, grow and flourish as a product security engineer.
This product security engineer role is part of the S.C.O.P.E organisation, which expands to Security, Compliance, and Privacy Engineering. As part of this role in product security, you will be responsible for identifying security design flaws and vulnerabilities, and offering potential remediation recommendations. Also, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with, but not limited to, security architects, development teams across VMware, and other security engineers in the team, who work on various areas such as, virtualisation, software-defined networking, cloud security, and Kubernetes. If you have the drive to work on securing the next big thing, we would love to talk!
Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?
The following is a schedule for the first year of joining:
- Within 1 month of employment, learn the product/SaaS offering which you will help secure, the technology stack which they use, become familiar with the attack vectors in the related domain, and get accustomed to the code base, recent externally reported vulnerabilities, release cycles etc.
- Within 3 months of employment, work towards becoming competent in handling secure design reviews, threat model activities, scoping penetration testing and perform security testing of products/SaaS.
- Within 1 year of employment, work towards becoming competent in handling multiple products and SaaS offerings, along with automating security test cases and finding innovative ways of identifying vulnerabilities in quick time and covering the entire blast radius.
The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?
As a product security engineer, you will:
- Work on assessing the security for products as they evolve with new features
- Work on product / SaaS offering / Solution for secure design reviews and threat modelling
- Scope for penetration tests
- Perform penetration testing at product / SaaS offering / Solution level
- Perform manual secure code reviews
- Identify security vulnerabilities and control gaps
- Provide actionable and practical mitigations to address security vulnerabilities by working closely with the development teams
- Generate penetration test report
- Analyse externally reported vulnerabilities
- Automate repeatable security tests
Basic qualifications:
- Penetration testing skills in Web, System, Container, Mobile, Network, and Cloud based technologies
- Secure design reviews and threat modelling
- Familiarity with SAST and DAST tools
- Manual secure code review (not limiting to): Java, C/C++, C#, JavaScript, Go, Python
- Experience with coding/scripting in one or more of the following (not limiting to): Python, Ruby
- Vulnerability assessment
Preferred qualifications:
- CTF experience
- Public track record of security research like, CVEs, bug bounty recognition, conference presentation
- Security automation like, (not limited to) Burp suite automation, familiarity with Frida
- Opensource vulnerability assessment
- Programming experience in one or more of the following (not limiting to): Java, C/C++, C#, JavaScript
- Security certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline
- Good verbal and written communication skills
What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?
S.C.O.P.E is headed by Ashok Banerjee, who is the Vice President based out of U.S. vSECR, which is widely known, is part of this organisation. The leadership of S.C.O.P.E
reporting to Ashok is based out of India, U.S, and Ireland. As part of this role, you will be joining the US team, which is headed by Madhusudan H.N in Bangalore, India. The
leadership encourages independent thinking and gives a free hand to innovate.
The team is distributed across the globe, in India, U.S, and Europe. We have a diverse, inclusive and open culture in the team. We encourage continuous learning, sharing of ideas
and thoughts, and growing together as a team. The team consists of majorly security engineers with experience ranging from less than a year to more than 10 years. We also have a good presence of technical product managers, full stack developers, and security architects. The team is built on trust and empathy, and we celebrate each other’s successes.
Where is the role located?
Either of the following can be opted.
Flexible: The location of this role is flexible within US. Work will be done from an office some days during a week and other days from a non-VMware building.
Remote: This role is fully remote and can be done anywhere in US.
What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware?
You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family Types
- Generous Time Off Programs
- 40 hours of paid time to volunteer in your community
- Financial contributions to your personal/career development (conference participation, trainings, course work, certifications etc.)
- Wellness reimbursement and online fitness and wellbeing classes
Category : Engineering and Technology
Subcategory: Software Engineering
Experience: Manager and Professional
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: 2022-04-01
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