Security Engineer-2

Cashfree Payments India Private Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Cashfree Payments India Private Limited is seeking a security engineer to proactively identify vulnerabilities in our products and work with teams to mitigate risks. The role emphasizes threat modeling, secure design reviews, and secure coding practices while promoting security awareness across the development community.

The candidate will engage with in-house engineering, support pre-assessment analyses, and help automate security testing within the DevOps pipeline.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with threat modeling, risk modeling, and vulnerability classification.
• Experience with pre-assessment architectural and API analysis (white/grey-box).
• Experience in S-SDLC/CICD, QA processes.
• Knowledge of multiple vulnerabilities (XSS, SQLi, CSRF, crypto weaknesses).

Responsibilities

• Examine products to discover vulnerabilities and demonstrate exploitability and risk.
• Follow emerging threats and perform independent research.
• Collaborate with developers to implement mitigations per policy.
• Engage with design reviews and threat modeling with Dev teams.
• Deliver security training and workshops for developers and QA.

Skills

Threat modeling

Secure coding

Security assessments

Programming languages (Java, Python,Go

Cloud security

Education

B.Tech in CS/EE/CE or equivalent

Job description

Responsibilities

• Examine the products in detail to discover vulnerabilities and collaborate with the other security engineers to practically demonstrate the exploitability and risk factors.


• Be on the forefront of emerging vulnerabilities/threats that could affect Cashfree products through independent research and study.


• Engage with the developers in developing workarounds/mitigation plans and ensure they are implemented per policy.


• Threat Modelling: Engage with the development teams to conduct secure design reviews/threat modeling exercise to enumerate threats and mitigation strategies.


• Enable the developers with knowledge of threat modeling by conducting focused workshops.


• Secure Coding: Priorities critical defects and ensure these are identified and mitigated during the sprint.


• Integration and automation of SAST in the DevOps pipeline.


• Build secure coding principles and propagate them across the development community.


• Be the to-go person for developers in solving critical issues relating to secure product development.


• Build and enhance secure coding / security assessments training contents for developers and QA team.


• Deliver training programs at various levels in the organizations.


• Conduct workshops/security tech-talks to disseminate security knowledge and awareness. Qualifications.


• Good knowledge in multiple classes of vulnerabilities that includes cross-site scripting, SQL Injection, CSRF, cryptographic related weakness, and code injection.


• Good knowledge of any programming/scripting languages such as Java, Ruby, and Python.


• Good knowledge relating to services/technology relating to the cloud.


• Ability to automate security testing and improve productivity in security assessments.


• Ability to communicate and interpret security vulnerabilities to various audiences such as development and management teams.

Requirements

• You have great interpersonal skills, deep technical ability, and a history of successful execution in the assessments industry. If you enjoy discussing anything from procedural linking tables in kernels to remote code execution in JVMs, then we want you on the team.


• Familiarity with industry-standard threat modeling, risk modeling, and vulnerability classification.


• Experience with pre-assessment architectural and API analysis to scope and prepare white-box and grey-box assessments.


• Experience working with in-house engineering organizations, S-SDLC/CICD software lifecycle and QA processes


• B. Tech. in Computer Science, Electrical, or Computer Engineering, or equivalent work experience as a software engineering or security practitioner.


• 3+ years of relevant engineering or security assessment experience, experience in application security.


• Possess a broad knowledge of attack vectors, exploits, and mitigations that work at scale or may be linked together for chained attacks.


• Experience with Java, Go, Python, or Node.js (bonus points for more than one).


• Experience with assessing Cloud-native services, service meshes, and K notes-platform-based micro-services.


• Be able to apply unconventional thinking and problem-solve on the boundary of your knowledge base, learning new technologies or languages as needed to complete pen-test tasks.


• Be able to think both offensively (like a hacker) and defensively (evaluating product security and design)