Lead Security Software Engineer: Secure SDLC & CRA Readiness

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ergonomic workspace

Well‑stocked kitchen

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HP Wolf Security) is seeking a Principal Security Software Engineer to lead improvements to secure software development practices in line with CRA requirements. You will drive threat modelling, secure-by-design initiatives, and vulnerability management across Windows/Linux components.

Join a highly skilled team focused on hardware-enforced protection, micro-virtualization, and scalable isolation technologies for enterprise-grade endpoint security.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building, securing, and maintaining production software, ideally endpoint, security, or systems software.
• Strong programming experience in C, C++, Rust, Python, PowerShell, or comparable languages.
• Experience developing software for Windows and/or Linux, including OS, virtualization, isolation, or other security-sensitive components.
• Strong experience with code review, debugging, unit and integration testing, and modern build, CI/CD, and release workflows.
• Practical experience selecting, integrating, configuring, or improving static analysis tools and resolving the issues they identify.
• Ability to work effectively in a complex codebase and drive improvements to software quality, reliability, and security.

Responsibilities

• Lead the definition and delivery of improvements to Wolf Security’s secure software development lifecycle in line with CRA expectations.
• Introduce better static analysis tools, improve their integration into development and build workflows, tune rules and policies, and help teams resolve the issues they identify.
• Establish approaches for triaging findings, managing false positives, tracking remediation, and measuring security improvement.
• Promote security-by-design and secure-by-default principles through threat modelling, design reviews, architectural guidance, and secure coding practices.
• Improve the identification, assessment, documentation, and remediation of vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Provide technical leadership on complex security problems, make engineering trade-offs, and mentor engineers through constructive review.

Skills

C

C++

Rust

Python

PowerShell

Windows development

Linux development

Tools

Static analysis tools

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HP Wolf Security) is seeking a Principal Security Software Engineer to lead improvements to secure software development practices in line with CRA requirements. You will drive threat modelling, secure-by-design initiatives, and vulnerability management across Windows/Linux components.

Join a highly skilled team focused on hardware-enforced protection, micro-virtualization, and scalable isolation technologies for enterprise-grade endpoint security.