Senior Vulnerability Management Engineer

Sofi; Seattle, San Francisco (WA, CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Senior Vulnerability Management Engineer in Seattle. You will identify and remediate vulnerabilities across apps, infra, containers, and third‑party dependencies, owning tooling and dashboards.

You’ll work with engineering teams to prioritize issues by exploitability and business impact, using AI-assisted development tools while ensuring security compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in computer science/cybersecurity.
• 4+ years of experience in information security, vulnerability management, or related field.
• Strong understanding of CVE, CVSS, CWE, CISA KEV, EPSS, OWASP and risk-based prioritization.
• Experience with vulnerability-management platforms (e.g., Qualys) and SAST/DAST/SCA tools.
• Experience with containers, Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD, logging, monitoring, and secret management.

Responsibilities

• Perform vulnerability assessments across applications, OS, containers, and third‑party dependencies.
• Investigate vulnerable dependencies and identify direct vs transitive origins.
• Recommend safe upgrades, configuration changes, patches, or compensating controls.
• Own, maintain, and enhance internal vulnerability-management tools and dashboards.
• Lead remediation initiatives and provide guidance to engineers and security teams.

Skills

Vulnerability management

Kubernetes

Python/Java/Go/Bash

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or equivalent

Tools

Qualys

SAST/DAST/SCA tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

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We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.About the role

As a Senior Vulnerability Management Engineer you will independently identify, assess, prioritize, and drive the remediation of vulnerabilities across applications, infrastructure, containers, Kubernetes environments, and third‑party dependencies.

You will be expected to understand how vulnerable dependencies enter an application, determine whether they are direct or transitive, identify appropriate remediation options, and work with engineering teams to implement and validate fixes.

You will also own and enhance internal vulnerability‑management tools, including the repositories, scheduled jobs, APIs, and reporting applications used to process and display vulnerability findings. The ideal candidate should be comfortable using approved AI tools, such as Claude, to accelerate development, investigation, documentation, and security automation while following company security and data‑handling requirements.

What you’ll do

• Perform vulnerability assessments across applications, operating systems, containers, Kubernetes clusters, and third‑party dependencies.

• Investigate vulnerable dependencies, determine where they originate, and identify whether they are direct or transitive.

• Recommend safe dependency upgrades, configuration changes, patches, or compensating controls.

• Own and maintain the source‑code repositories associated with internal vulnerability‑management tools and reporting applications.

• Integrate security tools with ticketing systems, repositories, dashboards, and reporting platforms through APIs and webhooks.

• Use approved AI‑assisted development tools to support coding, debugging, vulnerability research, remediation analysis, test creation, and documentation.

• Identify false positives, duplicate findings, incorrect asset associations, and findings that lack sufficient context.

• Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to prioritize vulnerabilities based on exploitability, exposure, asset criticality, and business impact.

• Develop dashboards and reports that communicate vulnerability risk, remediation progress, SLA performance, and program effectiveness.

• Lead remediation initiatives and provide technical guidance to engineers and other security team members.

What you’ll need

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience.

• 4+ years of experience in information security, vulnerability management, application security, security engineering, or a related discipline.

• Strong understanding of CVE, CVSS, CWE, CISA KEV, EPSS, OWASP, and risk‑based vulnerability prioritization.

• Experience investigating vulnerable dependencies using build files, dependency trees, lock files, container images, and software‑composition‑analysis tools.

• Ability to determine where a vulnerable package originates and recommend a safe, compatible remediation.

• Hands‑on experience operating vulnerability‑management platforms such as Qualys or similar tools.

• Experience with SAST, DAST, SCA, container‑security, or infrastructure vulnerability‑scanning tools.

• Experience developing or maintaining reporting applications, dashboards, backend services, or data‑processing workflows.

• Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes workloads, Helm, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, logging, monitoring, and secrets management.

• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language, such as Python, Java, Go, or Bash.

• Ability to independently manage technical initiatives involving multiple engineering teams and stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms and cloud‑native services.

• Experience with microservice architectures and Kubernetes‑based applications.

• Experience developing vulnerability‑management automation and self‑service security tools.

• Knowledge of Java dependency‑management systems such as Gradle or Maven, including transitive dependency analysis.

• Ability to collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, business, compliance, and external vendor teams.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or Engineering.

• Practical experience deploying and troubleshooting applications in Kubernetes environments.

• Relevant hands‑on security certifications from Hack The Box, Offensive Security, or another recognized practical security‑training provider.

• Financial‑services or other regulated‑industry experience.

Compensation and Benefits

The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location.

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