Application Security Engineer

Avalara

Pune, Maharashtra
Permanent
Full-time

13 days ago

Job Description:What You'll DoJoin us in building a secure platform supporting Avalara’s expanding business. In this role you will have the opportunity to engage with the best and brightest engineers and architects as they build our future application and service capabilities, while ensuring our current generation solutions continue to deliver the trust and reliability our customers expect. If you want to make a big difference in a fast-moving environment without endless meetings, if you want to set your direction instead of having it set for you, if you want to have all the benefits of startup and an established company, we want to talk to you.Our ideal application security engineer has experience working on a variety of platforms and technologies and is passionate about identifying and managing risks. Security can be complex, so you will be responsible to make it simple, but make its impact significant in our engineering organizations. You will provide guidance, training, and support. You will be able to talk tech and business. You will work hard to find the right solution, not the first solution. You thrive on challenge and you are not afraid to dig in, all while having fun and not getting too serious.
Job Duties

Setting strategic direction for application security within Avalara, including processes, tools, metrics, and reporting
Performing code and design reviews of internal and customer-facing software products and solutions
Providing training, education, awareness, and communication to development and engineering groups
Guiding the Product teams to remediate the vulnerabilities.
Designing, developing, and implementing software development policies, standards, procedures, and technical controls
Managing security tooling infrastructure and configuration
Guide and mentor, the junior Application Security Engineers

What You'll Need to be Successful

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
4 - 8 years of experience performing manual code review and threat modeling.
4 - 8 years of experience with SCA, SAST, DAST application security tools
Deep technical knowledge and experience identifying, triaging, and remediating application vulnerabilities including the OWASP Top 10
Experience working with a variety of development tools, languages, and environments, including Python, Go Lang, Terraform, .NET, Java, PHP, Node.js
Experience working with cloud orchestration technologies like Docker, Kubernetes & IAC
Experience working with a variety of cloud providers including AWS & GCP
Experience working in a multi-tenant SaaS environment, service-oriented architecture, and web service security.
Experience with agile software development processes and methodologies

Preferred Qualification

Experience developing and securing applications in AWS.
Good to have security certifications including CISSP, CSSLP, GIAC & AWS
Knowledge of regulatory and compliance standards including SOC 2, ISO 27001 & GDPR
Hands on experience in a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) environment

About AvalaraWe’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year.Last year, our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.We’re bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.EEO StatementWe’re an Equal Opportunity Employer. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.

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