Security Engineer 5 - Product & Application Security

PagerDuty; United States; Remote; USD 192,000 - 319,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a Staff Security Engineer to enhance security in a cloud-native environment. This role involves leading security initiatives, collaborating with diverse teams, and ensuring the integrity of customer data. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in securing applications, developing strategies for secure architectures, and mentoring others in security best practices. Join a dynamic team that values innovation and continuous learning, and help shape the future of security solutions that benefit both developers and customers alike.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in securing infrastructure including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.
• 5+ years of cloud-native security experience with best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead security controls for SaaS applications in a cloud-based environment.
• Identify threats and recommend enhancements for security posture.

Skills

Cloud-native security

Infrastructure security

Linux operating systems

Python scripting

Threat analysis

Application security

Security testing

Communication skills

Education

Certifications in security (AWS Security Specialty, CCSP, CISSP)

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Chef

Ansible

Job description

Security Engineer 5 - Product & Application Security

Remote (USA)

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management. Half of the Fortune 500 and nearly 70% of the Fortune 100 trust PagerDuty as essential infrastructure.

Join us. At PagerDuty, you'll tackle complex problems, collaborate with kind and ambitious people, and help build a more equitable world—all in a flexible, award-winning workplace.

PagerDuty is seeking a Staff Security Engineer 5 to join our diverse, customer-focused team! As a Staff Security Engineer 5, you will bring your rich technical experience securing applications in a cloud-native environment. You will be a part of an amazing team that’s intensely focused on securing our products, improving our security processes, and building the future of security at PagerDuty.

This is an exciting opportunity to build security solutions that make developers and customers happy. The ideal candidate will have a blend of experiences across large enterprise environments and small or mid-size environments and will have focused on establishing security standards, coordinating with product development teams, developing strategies for secure-by-default architectures, and corresponding process and tooling selection and implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading, designing, implementing, and configuring security controls for SaaS applications in a cloud-based infrastructure environment.
• Lead complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across technical, solutions, and business, and collaborate across the broader engineering organization.
• Identify threats and vulnerabilities, security gaps, and recommend enhancements and changes to increase product and infrastructure security posture.
• Support security operations to provide the protection of the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of customer data and building/maintaining customer trust.
• Partner with product/engineering, corporate operations, and employees to build and maintain a security-aware culture where everyone understands and plays their part.
• Provide thought leadership on modern security operations and help lead our infrastructure security organization in creating trust through security.
• Participate in our team’s on-call rotation, triaging and addressing security issues as they arise.
• Mentor and grow application security engineers.
• Stay ahead of the latest industry trends and technologies, share contributions to the wider security engineering community, and commit to continuous learning.
• Believe security should make it easy to do the right thing.
• Expert at leading collaborative efforts involving large groups and building consensus within and across engineering teams.
• 7+ years of experience in securing infrastructure including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and network security.
• 5+ years of cloud-native security experience and cloud-native application security best practices.
• Experience with Linux operating systems, scripting languages such as Python, configuration languages like YAML, JSON, and technologies such as Terraform and/or CloudFormation, configuration tools such as Chef or Ansible.
• Experience with AWS cloud security best practices, and AWS security technologies such as AWS IAM, AWS Organizations, AWS Shield, AWS GuardDuty.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• The ability to compress intricate security challenges into concise descriptions.
• The ability to solve security problems without saying "No".
• Track record of stepping up and leading successful security engineering projects.
• Past experience with application security, security testing, code reviews, and identity and access management.
• Past experience with threat analysis, threat hunting, and proactive security practices.
• Prior experience with Application Security and Secure SDL for cloud-native services.
• Experience with containerized applications and technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working in a continuous delivery/continuous deployment environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications such as AWS Security Specialty, (ISC)2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), (ISC)2 CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional).

The base salary range for this position is 192,000 - 319,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, commission, equity, and/or benefits.

Our base salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range, which is subject to change based on primary work location, reflects the minimum and maximum base salary we expect to pay newly hired employees for the position. Within the range, we determine pay for an individual based on a number of factors including market location, job-related knowledge, skills/competencies, and experience.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific offerings for this role, as well as the salary range for your primary work location during the hiring process.

Hesitant to apply?

We encourage you to submit your resume even if you don't meet every requirement. We value potential and consider each candidate's full professional story. Whether you're exploring a career change or taking your next step, we look forward to reviewing your application.

About PagerDuty

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management, enabling customers to achieve operational efficiency at scale with the PagerDuty Operations Cloud. The PagerDuty Operations Cloud combines AIOps, Automation, Customer Service Operations, and Incident Management with a powerful generative AI assistant to create a flexible, resilient, and scalable platform to increase innovation velocity, grow revenue, reduce cost, and mitigate the risk of operational failure. Half of the Fortune 500 and nearly 70% of the Fortune 100 rely on PagerDuty as essential infrastructure for the modern enterprise.

PagerDuty is Great Place to Work-certified, a Fortune Best Workplace for Millennials, a Fortune Best Medium Workplace, a Fortune Best Workplace in Technology, and a top-rated product on TrustRadius and G2.

PagerDuty is committed to creating a diverse environment and is an equal opportunity employer. PagerDuty does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, parental status, veteran status, or disability status.

PagerDuty is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application process. Should you require accommodation, please email [e-mail] and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

PagerDuty uses the E-Verify employment verification program.

Apply for this job

* indicates a required field

First Name *

Last Name *

Preferred First Name

Email *

Phone

Resume/CV *

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

LinkedIn Profile

Website

Do you now, or in the future, require sponsorship to work for PagerDuty? * Select...