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Product Security Engineer II

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

The Product Security Platform Partnerships team is composed of security engineers working to ensure HashiCorp delivers secure software to its customers. We work closely with product engineering teams at HashiCorp, enabling them to write secure code and embed security into the development processes. We are responsible for design review, threat modeling, and code review of new features, as well as vulnerability management across our entire product portfolio.

Your role and responsibilities include:

• Contribute to secure architecture and design of HashiCorp products, across our cloud, self-managed, and community product portfolio.
• Work across various R&D teams to prioritize security features and bugs, and ensure implementation and mitigations.
• Monitor threats and vulnerabilities impacting HashiCorp products and services; triage reported vulnerabilities, identify mitigations and assess/communicate associated risk.
• Act as SME on multiple information security areas (e.g. security architecture, application security, threat modeling etc.).
• Plan & execute security assessments (dynamic testing, static testing, code review, etc) and threat modeling of HashiCorp's products, services, and associated cloud infrastructure.
• Assist in execution of 3rd-party audits, penetration tests, and bug bounty programs.
• Contribute to the development of security solutions across the product life-cycle, such as standalone security tools, CI/CD pipeline integrations, product security features/fixes, etc.
• Contribute to the creation and delivery of security training.
• Research emerging attack vectors and techniques.

Required technical and professional expertise includes:

• Hands-on experience in security.
• Secure development practices, and integration into broader engineering activities.
• Security design / architecture and threat modeling.
• Product and service architectures in modern, multi-tenant cloud environments (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS).
• Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Secure operations practices, specifically in cloud environments.
• Authentication and Identity management (e.g. SAML, SSO, OIDC, SCIM, etc) security best practices.
• Application and infrastructure security testing methodologies and tools.
• Vulnerabilities (old and new), and options for defense / mitigation.
• Product vulnerability management lifecycle.
• Working with and/or supporting product engineering teams.
• Security audits, penetration tests, and/or bug bounty programs.
• Cryptography and cryptographic primitives.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred technical and professional experience includes:

• Modern engineering practices, processes, and tools, particularly related to the Go programming language and ecosystem.
• Knowledge of application security topics, a pragmatic approach to security, and the ability to empathize with engineers and product managers across the company.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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