Senior Application Security Engineer

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

Do you want to help bring PlayStation technology to a worldwide audience? Are you passionate about securing infrastructure that constantly pushes the boundary of the gaming industry? Are you ready to work with innovative technology, forward-thinking engineers, and a passionate security team? If so, come work with us!

In this position you will join our Product Security team, focusing on penetration testing and handling bug bounty reports from our Responsible Disclosure program. You will also get the opportunity to address out-of-band vulnerabilities, handle security incidents and work closely with our development teams, helping them remediate security issues.

Our team members are comfortable with thinking outside the box and exploring both offensive and defensive perspectives simultaneously. We are constantly striving to grow and improve, curious and seeking to learn more, moving towards continuous improvement. Whether we work independently and collaboratively, we do all we can to meet our goals and serve our internal customers. If this sounds like you, we’d love to have you on the team!

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers, consultants and leadership to address security risks and provide mitigation recommendations
• Perform validation of security controls to ensure alignment with compliance and industry standard processes
• Perform manual security testing of products and services to proactively discover vulnerabilities, tracking them to resolution
• Lead security tests from scoping to report, working with developers to address findings
• Work with vulnerabilities identified by scanners, from triage to remediation of valid findings with engineering organizations
• Investigate and triage vulnerabilities reported from external sources
• Determine and recommend remediation guidelines for vulnerabilities to developers and other technical audiences

Qualifications

• 5+ years previous experience in Information Security
• 3+ years of penetration testing (or related) experience
• 2+ years experience working within software development
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Security, or equivalent experience
• Superb communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and address technical and non-technical audiences in both written and verbal forms
• Excellent analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving skills
• Good understanding of application security weaknesses for various technologies including web applications, databases, and multi-tier applications
• Ability to review source code and explain mitigation controls within source code for languages including, Java, Go, Python, C/C++, among others
• Ability to write and develop custom or customized testing tools and scripts
• Solid experience with web application testing tools like Burp Suite and OWASP ZAP, or equivalent tools
• Experience with network tools such as Wireshark, netcat, tcpdump, etc
• Experience with application security scanning tools such as SAST, SCA and DAST
• Experience with different development methodologies such as Agile and DevOps
• Experience with automated attack tools and developing mitigation techniques
• Experience with C2 frameworks such as Cobalt Strike, Metasploit or Empire
• Knowledge of cloud services and infrastructure, such as AWS and GCP

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We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond. 

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.