Senior Product Security Engineer

International Business Machines Corporation; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software in San Jose, CA seeks a Product Security Engineer to partner with Vault, Boundary, and Radar engineers to embed security across the Product Development Lifecycle. You will help teams build secure-by-design products, assess risks, and respond to vulnerabilities.

You will work with Product Management, Engineering, and Security Operations to implement secure design patterns, threat modeling, and incident response, leveraging HashiCorp tools and AI-assisted security workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in application/product security or security engineering.
• Secure Design & Risk Assessment: threat modeling, architecture reviews, security design reviews, vulnerability assessments.
• Vulnerability Management: identify, triage, prioritize security vulnerabilities based on exploitability and business impact.
• Application Security Expertise: OWASP Top 10, CWE, CVSS, secure software development principles.
• Technical Foundations: Go, Python, or Rust; authentication, authorization, encryption, PKI, key management, identity, and secrets management.

Responsibilities

• Embed security across the PDLC with Vault, Boundary, and Radar teams.
• Serve as security SME for Vault, Radar, Boundary; coordinate vulnerability disclosure and advisories.
• Conduct architecture reviews, design reviews, threat modeling, and security assessments for new products and features.
• Provide guidance on secure design patterns, defensive architectures, and remediation strategies.
• Promote secure-by-design engineering practices and product security standards.
• Assist in security incident response activities and post-incident improvements.

Skills

Product security

Threat modeling

Architecture reviews

Vulnerability management

OWASP Top 10

Go/Python/Rust

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

HashiCorp Vault

HashiCorp Boundary

Consul

Terraform

Radar

Job description

Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'l have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

The Secure Lifecycle Management (SLM) organization is seeking a Product Security Engineer to partner closely with the engineering teams responsible for HashiCorp Vault, Boundary, and Radar. This role is embedded directly within the engineering organization and serves as a trusted security advisor throughout the Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC), helping teams build secure-by-design products, proactively identify risks, and respond effectively to security vulnerabilities and incidents.

The ideal candidate combines deep application and product security expertise with strong software engineering skills and the ability to collaborate across Product Management, Engineering, Product Security, and Security Operations teams.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Partner directly with Vault, Boundary, and Radar engineering teams to embed security throughout the PDLC and improve the security posture of new and existing capabilities.

• Serve as the security SME for Vault, Radar, Boundary and work closely with central Product Security, and Security Operations teams on coordinated vulnerability disclosure, security advisories, and customer-facing security communications.

• Conduct architecture reviews, design reviews, threat modeling, and security assessments for new products, features, and platform initiatives.

• Provide actionable guidance to engineering teams on secure design patterns, defensive architectures, security controls, and remediation strategies.

• Help establish and promote secure-by-design engineering practices, security standards, and product-specific security best practices.

• Assess internally discovered and externally reported security vulnerabilities, including validation, exploitability analysis, risk assessment, severity determination, and remediation prioritization.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to identify workarounds, develop fixes, review remediation plans, and validate security improvements.

• Participate in security incident response activities, including investigation, impact assessment, containment planning, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements.

• Assist in building and prototyping AI-assisted security tooling, workflows, and skills that improve the scale and efficiency of vulnerability triage, assessment, remediation, and security review activities.

• Contribute to automation and process improvements that reduce security response time and improve engineering productivity.

Required technical and professional expertise

• 5+ years of experience in application security, product security, or security engineering, with 8+ years of overall industry experience preferred.

• Secure Design & Risk Assessment: Expertise in threat modeling, architecture reviews, security design reviews, and vulnerability assessments.

• Vulnerability Management: Experience identifying, triaging, prioritizing, and assessing security vulnerabilities based on exploitability and business impact.

• Application Security Expertise: Strong knowledge of OWASP Top 10, CWE, CVSS, modern vulnerability management practices, and secure software development principles.

• Technical & Security Foundations: Proficiency in Go, Python, or Rust, with deep understanding of authentication, authorization, encryption, PKI, key management, identity, and secrets management, along with a proven ability to influence teams and drive secure engineering practices.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Application & Cloud Security: Hands-on experience with static and dynamic analysis, software composition analysis (SCA), container security, cloud security tools, and vulnerability research.

• Security Operations & Communication: Experience with incident response, coordinated vulnerability disclosure, security advisories, and customer-facing security communications.

• Security Engineering & Automation: Familiarity with HashiCorp technologies, including Vault, Boundary, Consul, Terraform, and Radar, along with experience building security automation, developer security tools, or AI-assisted security workflows.

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

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.