Senior Application Security Engineer

Position Summary

As a Senior Application Security Engineer, you will play a key role in the development of AccelByte’s products. Building and designing systems with security, scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency in mind is a must.

Our ideal candidate has a love for games and the ability to collaborate with our game developers, customers, and other service developers in order to build online services and tools to power games at scale. We seek versatile engineers with strong judgment, great execution, and a willingness to take on new responsibilities.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities

The Senior Application Security Engineer is accountable for the following functions and responsibilities:

• Responsible for multiple specialty areas, including secure coding practices and security design based on current knowledge of security threats and vulnerabilities that could impact the technology stack
• Perform the definition of Secure SDLC standard to include security architecture, design, and coding requirements for infrastructure, application, and data to align with the application security maturity model.
• Take part in initial design sessions to build in security practices for all projects.
• Help with application and code review and penetration testing to identify possible vulnerabilities that may be exploited and propose remediation solutions or mitigation controls.
• Perform and maintain secure coding standards and practices, and conduct security awareness training for developers related to coding best practices.
• Proactively giving feedback on the automated security testing system
• Security tool development and security metrics delivery and improvements
• Do risk evaluation and respond to vulnerabilities discovered internally or externally
• Protect the organization's critical assets against any kind of cyber threat
• Take part in building effective systems to monitor the health of our system/applications and handle outages
• Analyze the solutions and implement the best practices for live production support
• Develop production-ready automation scripts and ensure code snippets are easily testable, easily understood by others, and account for edge cases and errors
• Use of security expertise in multiple specialty areas
• Triages and handles/escalate security issues independently
• Constantly improve application and infrastructure security
• Assess security tools and integrate tools as needed
• Author technical security documents
• Do and provide problem escalation for sub-department teams facing complex technical challenges.
• Execute security architectures for cloud environments
• Responsible for automating cloud security controls
• Manage cryptography and encryption of data in the cloud
• Implement identity and access management and securely configure cloud environments
• Log, monitor, and respond to detected security incidents in the cloud environment
• Facilitate preparation of both critical and regular security releases
• Mentor and train more junior engineers
• Grow our team by interviewing and recruiting
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications/Experience Required

• Bachelors or relevant work experience or certification/courses.
• At least 5 years of experience in the information security field
• At least 5 years of experience with web applications and backend services, including API design, access management, authorization, authentication, data protection and encryption
• At least 5 years of experience with security operations tools (SIEM, IDS, IPS, Firewall, etc)
• At least 5 years of experience with embedded security in CI/CD implementations
• Advanced experience in collaboration tools (e.g.: Ticketing System, Documentation Platform, Source Code Repository)
• Experience in AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) portfolio of services like IAM roles, policies, service account
• Experience with containerization principles and frameworks such as Docker, Container, Kubernetes
• Familiar with Cloud-native security
• Familiar with Cloud vulnerability assessment and management
• Advanced experience in software coding/development and including scripting languages in at least one of the following programming languages: Java, Go, JavaScript, C/C++, and Python
• Advanced experience with OWASP Top 10, static/dynamic analysis, and common security tools (Burp Suite, ZAProxy, Nessus, NMap, Nikto, Metasploit Framework, etc.)
• Experience in basic project management
• Advanced experience in SaaS products and services or similar
• Basic experience in mentoring and setting the direction for other engineers
• Advanced experience in product security tools, dependency scanning, SAST, DAST, application vulnerability assessment and management

• Advanced experience in web application architecture
• Advanced experience in penetration and automation security testing
• Advanced experience in secure coding practice
• Basic experience of bug bounty programs and hacking frameworks (e.g.: OWASP, PTES, OSSTMM, MITRE ATTACK, etc.)
• Experience and knowledge of security compliance (GDPR/SOC2/ISO27001) assessment for application design and implementation
• Proficient with common security libraries, security controls, and common security flaws
• Experience in AWS, Docker, EKS/Kubernetes
• Able to proficiently work in an Agile environment
• Basic understanding of network and web-related protocols (such as TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, and HTTPS protocols)
• Passion for security and open-source
• One or more of the following certifications: Network+, Security+, CCNA, CEH, SSCP, OSCP, OSWE, OSCE, CHFI, GPEN, GWAPT, GSEC, GCIH, eJPT, eWPT, or any other similar industry-recognized certification

• Basic experience in mentoring, managing, and setting the direction for other engineers.

• Experience working in a multinational technology startup is a big plus
• Knowledge of CVE/Bug bounty/responsible disclosures preferred
• Reverse Engineering and Fuzzing to identify potential vulnerabilities preferred
• Experience with cryptography preferred
• Ability to contribute to open-source projects and participate in technical communities preferred
• Experience working for or with AAA game studios is preferred
• Eagerness to learn new languages and technologies.
• Proficiency in written and verbal English language to succeed in a remote work environment.
• Flexibility to adjust to work routines/schedules, as required, to meet the needs of the company and the expectations of customers.