Product Security Engineer II- HashiCorp Security

International Business Machines Corporation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM is seeking a Product Security Engineer to help scale our product security function across HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, spanning cloud, self-managed, and community products. You will partner with Research & Development teams to ensure security is appropriately addressed across the HashiCorp suite of cloud, self-managed, and community products.

In this role, your responsibilities will include designing secure architectures, performing threat modeling, conducting security

Qualifications

• 4+ years of product security experience partnering with engineering teams to design and secure applications and platforms.
• Strong cloud and security architecture expertise including threat modeling for AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with application and infrastructure security, testing, vulnerability mgmt, and secure SDLC.
• Knowledge of identity, authentication, and cryptography (SSO, SAML, OIDC, SCIM).
• Experience with security operations, audits, vulnerability disclosure programs, and bug-bounty management.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to secure architecture and design of HashiCorp products across cloud, self-managed, and community offerings.
• Collaborate with R&D teams to prioritize security features and mitigations.
• Monitor threats and vulnerabilities; triage, mitigate, and communicate risk.
• Act as SME on security areas such as architecture, app security, threat modeling.
• Plan and execute security assessments and threat modeling of products and cloud infrastructure.
• Assist in third-party audits, penetration tests, and bug bounty programs.
• Contribute to security tooling and CI/CD integrations across the life-cycle.
• Deliver security training and educate teams on secure practices.
• Research emerging attack vectors and techniques.

Skills

Product security

Cloud security

Application security

Identity & cryptography

Security operations

Tools

Go (Golang)

Job description

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

About this team:

The Product Security Partnerships team is composed of security engineers working to ensure HashiCorp delivers secure software to its customers. We work closely with product engineering teams at HashiCorp, enabling them to write secure code and embed security into the development processes. We are responsible for design review, threat modeling, and code review of new features, as well as vulnerability management across our entire product portfolio.

Your role and responsibilities

Your Role and Responsibilities

We are looking for a Product Security Engineer to help scale our product security function, partnering closely with Research & Development teams to ensure that security is appropriately addressed across the HashiCorp suite of cloud, self-managed, and community products.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Contribute to secure architecture and design of HashiCorp products, across our cloud, self-managed, and community product portfolio.

• Work across various R&D teams to prioritize security features and bugs, and ensure implementation and mitigations.

• Monitor threats and vulnerabilities impacting HashiCorp products and services; triage reported vulnerabilities, identify mitigations and assess/communicate associated risk.

• Act as SME on multiple information security areas (e.g. security architecture, application security, threat modeling etc.).

• Plan & execute security assessments (dynamic testing, static testing, code review, etc) and threat modeling of HashiCorp's products, services, and associated cloud infrastructure.

• Assist in execution of 3rd-party audits, penetration tests, and bug bounty programs.

• Contribute to the development of security solutions across the product life-cycle, such as standalone security tools, CI/CD pipeline integrations, product security features/fixes, etc.

• Contribute to the creation and delivery of security training.

• Research emerging attack vectors and techniques.

Required technical and professional expertise

• 4+ years of product security experience, partnering closely with engineering teams to design and secure applications and platforms.

• Strong cloud and security architecture expertise, including threat modeling and securing AWS, Azure, and/or GCP environments.

• Hands-on experience with application and infrastructure security, including testing, vulnerability management, remediation, and secure SDLC practices.

• Knowledge of identity, authentication, and cryptography, including SSO, SAML, OIDC, and SCIM.

• Experience with security operations and governance, including audits, vulnerability disclosure programs, and bug bounty management.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Modern engineering practices, processes, and tools, particularly related to the Go programming language and ecosystem.

• Knowledge of application security topics, a pragmatic approach to security, and the ability to empathize with engineers and product managers across the company.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.