Senior Staff Application Security Engineer

Agoda; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Agoda is seeking a Senior Staff Application Security Engineer to enhance security measures through application reviews, penetration testing, and the scaling of security processes. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in secure design, threat modeling, and leading security initiatives while working with cutting-edge technologies. Opportunities for relocation to Bangkok, Thailand are provided.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of technical experience in security-related roles.
• Experience with various programming languages like Go, Python, NodeJS.
• In-depth knowledge of OWASP vulnerabilities and security principles.

Responsibilities

• Conduct application security reviews and perform penetration testing.
• Engage in projects and develop security tools.
• Provide training and technical guidance to internal teams.

Skills

Secure design reviews

Threat modeling

Penetration testing

Problem solving

Effective communication

Job description

Senior Staff Application Security Engineer

• Conduct application security reviews and perform penetration testing, ensuring alignment with compliance standards
• Engage in projects, research, and security tool development to enhance security measures and meet compliance requirements
• Scale security processes using automation
• Provide training, outreach, and develop documentation to guide security practices among internal teams
• Offer technical guidance, advocate for automation, evaluate designs, and lead our security teams to empower engineering partners with cutting-edge tools, techniques, and methodologies to naturally build secure products
  
  

The Opportunity/Role Summary:

• Conduct application security reviews and perform penetration testing, ensuring alignment with compliance standards
• Engage in projects, research, and security tool development to enhance security measures and meet compliance requirements
• Scale security processes using automation
• Provide training, outreach, and develop documentation to guide security practices among internal teams
• Offer technical guidance, advocate for automation, evaluate designs, and lead our security teams to empower engineering partners with cutting-edge tools, techniques, and methodologies to naturally build secure products
  
  

What you ll Need to Succeed/Role Requirements:

• Strong foundations in secure design reviews, threat modeling experience, code reviews, pen-testing
• Minimum of 3 **years of technical experience** with any combination of the following: **threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security.**
• Minimum 2 years experience with Software Development Life Cycle in one or more languages (**Go, Python, Nodejs, Rust, etc.**)
• Experience with public/private cloud environments (**Openshift, Rancher, K8s, AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.**)
• In-depth knowledge of security principles, compliance regulations, and change management
• Experience in running assessments using OWASP MASVS and ASVS
• Working knowledge on exploiting and fixing application vulnerabilities
• Proven expertise in architectural threat modeling and conducting secure design reviews
• In-depth knowledge of common web application vulnerabilities (i.e. OWASP Top 10 or SANS top 25)
• Familiarity with automated dynamic scanners, fuzzers, and proxy tools
• An analytical mind for problem solving, abstract thought, and offensive security tactics
• Highly effective communication skills, in both verbal and written forms, to effectively convey technical and non-technical concepts to a wide variety of audiences
• Exposure to advanced AI and Large Language Model (LLM) security
• Relocation package is provided in case you prefer to relocate to Bangkok, Thailand. Our benefits are

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