Staff Software Engineer, Product Security

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Our Product Security Team supports the following tenet of Slack's mission: make people's working lives more secure. We're serious about building a simple-to-use yet secure product, and most importantly, protecting our customers' data. We take a systematic approach to security and strive to ensure we provide low friction and high-impact security across everything we do.

As a member of the Product Security team, you care about shipping secure products and ensuring the way in for the bad actors is never through the front door (or the back)! You are passionate about enabling our developers to ship secure products. You think about your team as not fixing bugs but developing effective ways to prevent them. Your work will directly impact the way millions of people, teams, and businesses get things done using Slack.

Slack has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—we look for people who are inquisitive, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. In our work together we aim to be smart, humble, hardworking, and, above all, collaborative. If this sounds like a good fit for you, read on ahead!

Overview

Slack’s Product Security Foundations (PSF) group is a dedicated software engineering team within Product Security focused on streamlining the process of secure development, ensuring it is user-friendly for all engineers. A critical aspect of this is creating standardized methods, libraries, tools, and services for engineers across Slack. Join an existing, high-performance, thoughtful team and help make the secure choice the easy one for all of the engineers at Slack! Examples of work this team owns include authorization frameworks that support Slack APIs, core authentication libraries, safe image and attachment processing, in addition to other secure by default libraries.

What you will be doing

• Partner with Engineering and Technical Program Managers to create technical roadmaps

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of Authentication, Authorization, and Cryptography at Slack.

• Partner with people leader stakeholders to help influence change and promote cross-functional communication

• Communicate risks to engineering staff through training and technical demonstration of vulnerabilities and secure design patterns

• Take an active role in driving security initiatives at Slack

• Seek out opportunities to automate processes when appropriate

What you should have

• 7+ years of proven experience in software development

• Strong expertise in software engineering standard processes

• Experience coding in a variety of programming languages

• Experience with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Resources

• A passion for improving security, systems, and processes

• Experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction across team boundaries

• Experience designing, operating, and delivering internal and third party security services at scale

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For New York-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $211,500 to $306,600.

For Colorado-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $192,200 to $278,600.

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For California-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $211,500 to $306,600.

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