Senior Application Security Engineer

Caterpillar; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Chicago, IL, leads cybersecurity within Cat Digital to embed security into application development.

This role focuses on integrating security with DevOps, enabling secure delivery for Caterpillar Digital Applications, and collaborating with software engineers to deliver secure solutions. This position is ideal for an experienced software engineer transitioning to a full-time cybersecurity role, working with cross-functional teams to secure applications across the development

Qualifications

• Decision making and critical thinking skills to analyze situations and reach productive conclusions based on informed judgment.
• Effective communication concepts and techniques to clearly transmit and interpret ideas, information, and needs.
• Knowledge of software development life cycle and structured methodologies for delivering software products.
• Understanding software integration processes and designing interfaces to other platforms and packages.
• Ability to translate market requirements into software product design.

Responsibilities

• Security Defect Management - analyze, validate, and communicate security defects from automated and manual sources.
• Engineering Consulting - provide guidance to software engineers, architects, product owners, and leaders.
• Tool Enablement - monitor automated defect detection tooling at repository/application level.
• Security Test Onboarding & Management - coordinate scope, access information, and handle assessment outputs.
• Maturity Measurement - advise on security practices to improve application security maturity.

Skills

Decision Making and Critical Thinking

Effective Communications

Software Development Life Cycle

Software Integration Engineering

Software Product Design/Architecture

Job description

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Job Summary

Join the Cybersecurity team of Cat Digital and build software solutions that drive automation and security into the application development lifecycle. You will have deep integration with applications as they move from an idea into a solution, integrating Security and DevOps practices and enabling delivery for Caterpillar Digital Applications. Be a part of the team that is using innovative solutions and methods to securely enable, build, and deploy modern applications and software. This role is an excellent opportunity for an experienced software engineer with a passion for cybersecurity to move to a full-time cybersecurity role and help their fellow software engineers deliver solutions securely.

What You Will Do

• Security Defect Management - Analyzing, validating, communicating, and consulting on security defects identified by both automated and manual sources such as CodeQL, Rapid7 Web Application Security, penetration testing, bug bounty, etc. In other words, our security engineers are partners to software engineers who require accurate information on why a vulnerability exists and what they can do about it.
• Engineering Consulting - Serving as a "best friend" to software engineers, architects, product owners, and leaders, provide contextually-aware guidance to help these groups make good decisions, document those decisions and resulting architectures, and navigate relevant review & approval processes (where necessary) when implementing new features and remediating existing issues.
• Tool Enablement - Enabling and monitoring automated defect detection tooling (CodeQL, Rapid7, etc.) at the repository or application level according to established process.
• Security Test Onboarding & Management - Collecting and communicating required scope and access information for penetration testing and security assurance assessments, as well as handling the output of these assessments via our Defect Management Process.
• Maturity Measurement - Consulting with software engineers on practices which will improve their application's security maturity according to scorecards and maturity models established by Cat Digital.
• Correction of Error - Authoring, in close partnership with software engineers, correction of error reports which help engineers and architects across Cat Digital avoid similar mistakes in their own applications.

What You Will Have

• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
• Software Development Life Cycle: Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.
• Software Integration Engineering : Knowledge of software integration processes and functions; ability to design, develop and maintain interfaces and linkage to alternative platforms and software packages.
• Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into the software product design.

Top Candidates Will Have

• Experience as a software engineer (in any language or framework); prefer a focus on cybersecurity related issues
• Experience working on a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP, or Salesforce) as a software engineer, cloud/DevOps engineer, security engineer, or architect.
• Experience analyzing and remediating security findings from automated and manual sources such as Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), penetration testing, Software Composition Analysis (SCA), etc.
• Experience leveraging one or more of the following resources to support secure coding and decision-making: OWASP Top 10 MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Top