Remote Security Engineer: Threat Modeling & Open Source

Canonical; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal learning and development budget of USD 2000 per year

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Maternity and paternity leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Opportunity to travel to meet colleagues

Job summary

Canonical seeks exceptional security-focused software engineers to integrate across product teams while enhancing security practices. You will work on feature development, vulnerability response, and community participation. This role is globally remote, requiring a disciplined approach and international travel twice yearly.

The ideal candidate will have a strong academic background, expertise in security vulnerabilities, and proficiency in a variety of programming languages. Canonical offers a distributed work environment, a personal development budget, and various employee benefits.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or compelling alternative narrative.
• Thorough understanding of common categories of security vulnerabilities and how to fix them.
• Knowledge of modern software engineering techniques.
• Skill in one or more of C, C++, Python, Go, Rust, Java, Ruby, PHP, or JavaScript/Typescript.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Define, implement, and document new security features.
• Lead security-focused initiatives within a product engineering team.
• Analyze, fix, and test vulnerabilities in open source software.
• Contribute to Ubuntu and upstream open source projects.
• Audit and analyze source code for vulnerabilities.

Job description

Canonical seeks exceptional security-focused software engineers to integrate across product teams while enhancing security practices. You will work on feature development, vulnerability response, and community participation. This role is globally remote, requiring a disciplined approach and international travel twice yearly.

The ideal candidate will have a strong academic background, expertise in security vulnerabilities, and proficiency in a variety of programming languages. Canonical offers a distributed work environment, a personal development budget, and various employee benefits.