Product Security Engineer

Posted:
11/14/2024, 4:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Ontario, Canada ⋅ Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Experience Level(s):
Junior ⋅ Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
IT & Security ⋅ Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

As a Product Security Engineer, you will be focused on developing S-SDLC activities and controls that will ensure our applications are designed and implemented with regards to the highest level of security standards.


About the Role

As a Product Security Engineer, you will:   

  • Secure design, architecture, and implementation covering all steps of our Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).  

  • Drive security projects (including security reviews, tool development, and creation of new security practices). 

  • Participate in Threat modeling sessions to guide secure design discussions and participate in risk assessments. 

  • Create security guidance and documentation, including compliance as code.  

  • Work closely with our Security Awareness team to provide first class application security interactive and targeted training to our engineers.  

  • Set a high standard for engineering quality and execution that leads to high quality product security artifacts to secure our products’ SDLCs.  

 

About You   

You’re a fit for the role of Product Security Engineer if you have:    

 

  • Engineer Empathy: You have a strong understanding of how developers work and are able to present security initiatives to developers in a way that leverages that understanding.   

  • Knowledgeable in Application Security: You are passionate about application security including secure coding, supply chain security, and SecDevOps 

  • Drive to continually improve: You are able to analyze current processes and procedures and determine ways to improve and increase efficiency. 

 

Technical Skills:  

  • Experience collaborating with product development teams directly to instill security. 

  • Experience building and reviewing threat models and recommending secure design patterns 

  • Deep technical understanding and experience assessing common security vulnerabilities and risks, as well as advising on countermeasures and compensating controls. 

  • You have experience with SAST, DAST and SCA scans and the analysis of the identified security findings/results. 

  • Experience with DevSecOps in a cloud native context and in integrating security in CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred but experience with other Cis is good eg. Gitlab CI,…).  

  • Experience with automation in general consuming APIs, with plus when the automation is related to security tooling, proficiency in Python or Golang preferred.  

  • Knowledge of one or more security frameworks OWASP’s ASVS, CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF,… 

  • Ability to manage and prioritize between multiple tasks and projects. 

 

 

Additional Skills:  

  • Strong Communication Skills (verbal, written, ability to influence others) 

  • Learning Mindset (emerging technical trends, always learning)  

  • Agile Methodology experience 

  • Experience with Linux systems and containers 

  • Experience with AWS or Azure 

  • Infrastructure as code with Terraform 

  • Experience with Security tools (Web attack proxies, SAST, DAST, SCA) 

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What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

  • Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

  • Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

  • Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

  • Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

  • Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

  • Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.


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Accessibility 

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