Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. iHerb is on a mission to make health and wellness accessible to all, and they are seeking a Principal Application Security Engineer to lead their Secure Development Lifecycle assurance processes and security automation technologies. This role involves driving the security hardening strategy across their product and responding to current and emerging security threats while collaborating with development teams globally.
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-functional projects and establish cutting-edge security development lifecycle practices
- Directed security design reviews and threat modeling for new and existing services at iHerb
- Evaluate, prototype, implement, and operate security-focused tools and services
- Create new secure architecture standards, frameworks and patterns spanning multiple layers
- Discover and analyze emerging security threats, determining applicability to iHerb and proactively implement centralized mitigations
- Evaluate, prototype, implement, and operate security tools and services (DAST, SAST, SCA...)
- Maintain a strong knowledge of current security threats and operational best practices
- Drive our security assessment, penetration testing and bug bounty programs
- Participate in security incident response
Skills
- Demonstrated technical foundation (Computer Science / Engineering degree or equivalent experience) with an innate ability to translate technical vulnerabilities into organizational risks
- 8+ years of technical security leadership at a top-tier software company including experience with security products, threat modeling, security design, security architecture, cryptography, mobile security, and broader cloud computing technologies
- Solid understanding of common application and infrastructure security vulnerabilities and mitigations (OWASP Top 10, CWE 25…)
- Proficiency implementing SDL process, technology, and automation in a DevOps environment
- Experience with large-scale web applications and microservices, including API design, access management, authorization, authentication, data protection and encryption
- Knowledge of major programming languages and frameworks (e.g. Python, C# .NET, JavaScript, node.js, Java...)
- Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration and communication skills
- Experience with Cloudflare security, AWS VPCs, EC2 instances and docker
- Ability to drive good decisions through data with great attention to detail and deliver KPIs
- Experience driving application security training, security champions and awareness campaigns
- Active contributor to the security community (research, open source, publications…) with the ability to attract and hire great talent
Benefits
- Employees (and their families) that meet eligibility criteria as outlined in applicable plan documents are eligible to participate in our medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance programs
- May enroll in our company’s 401(k) plan
- Eligible to Time Off and Paid Sick Leave pursuant to the company’s policies
- Employees will enjoy paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- Hired applicant may be awarded Restrict Stock Units and receive annual bonuses pursuant to eligibility and performance criteria defined in the respective plan documents and policies
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