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Principal Application Security Engineer

iHerb

About this role

Candidates must reside in Pacific Standard time zone**

Are you passionate about securing global-scale ecommerce services and applications that power millions of customers across over a hundred countries around the globe? We are looking for a hands-on Principal Product Security Engineer to lead our Secure Development Lifecycle assurance processes, our security automation technologies, drive the security hardening strategy across our product and respond to current and emerging security threats. This role can be fully remote and must reside in US.

In this role, you will help us drive our Product Security strategy working with development teams globally to define new security capabilities, grow the team by hiring the best talent, and partner with senior leaders across the organization to deliver company-wide security initiatives.

Responsibilities Include::

Lead cross-functional projects and establish cutting-edge security development lifecycle practices

Directed security design reviews and threat modeling for new and existing services at iHerb

Evaluate, prototype, implement, and operate security-focused tools and services

Create new secure architecture standards, frameworks and patterns spanning multiple layers

Discover and analyze emerging security threats, determining applicability to iHerb and proactively implement centralized mitigations

Evaluate, prototype, implement, and operate security tools and services (DAST, SAST, SCA...)

Maintain a strong knowledge of current security threats and operational best practices

Drive our security assessment, penetration testing and bug bounty programs

Participate in security incident response

In order to be successful in this role you must have:

Demonstrated technical foundation (Computer Science / Engineering degree or equivalent experience) with an innate ability to translate technical vulnerabilities into organizational risks

10+ years of technical security leadership at a top-tier software company including experience with security products, threat modeling, security design, security architecture, cryptography, mobile security, and broader cloud computing technologies

Solid understanding of common application and infrastructure security vulnerabilities and mitigations (OWASP Top 10, CWE 25…)

Proficiency implementing SDL process, technology, and automation in a DevOps environment

Experience with large-scale web applications and microservices, including API design, access management, authorization, authentication, data protection and encryption

Knowledge of major programming languages and frameworks (e.g. Python, C# .NET, JavaScript, node.js, Java...)

Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration and communication skills

Experience in supply chain security

Bonus Qualifications:

Experience with Cloudflare security, AWS VPCs, EC2 instances and docker

Ability to drive good decisions through data with great attention to detail and deliver KPIs

Experience driving application security training, security champions and awareness campaigns

Active contributor to the security community (research, open source, publications…) with the ability to attract and hire great talent

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Compensation

The expected salary range for this role is $177,000.00 - $225,000.00 USD. The actual base pay offered will be determined by factors such as the candidate's relevant experience, education, geographic location, and internal equity. If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Staffing Agency Submission Notice iHerb does not accept unsolicited 3rd party ("Agency") candidates. If you are an Agency, please send any requests to be considered as a supplier in our Vendor Management System to [email protected]. Do not contact iHerb employees directly. If requested to work on a role, any Agency candidates would be presented through the internal recruiting organization.

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