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About The role
SoFi Product Security team assists and partners with engineering, product and design organizations. Our mission is to secure the products and services delivered to our members and customers. We deploy best in class Product Security practices, compliance frameworks, and design patterns by collaborating with product owners, engineers, and executives. The mission is core to SoFi’s value “Put our member’s interest first”..
As an Application Security Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the security of our existing and new platforms, products, and services. You will work in conjunction with security architects, development (engineering), and product teams to review systems and services with security controls baked into them. This role is the primary face of the security organization to other groups within SoFi.
The ideal candidate will be highly collaborative, balancing the right level of security with business objectives, and working to creatively solve complex Product Security related problems in an agile environment.
What you’ll do:
- Perform regular vulnerability assessments using different tools. Regularly drive remediation and reporting of cataloged vulnerabilities.
- Assess discovered vulnerabilities and properly prioritize their scope, impact and necessary response actions.
- Conduct security reviews of our products and production infrastructure.
- Contribute to vulnerability management, application security and/or offensive/red-team operations.
- Engage in security audit and security regulatory exercises with partners and vendors.
- Support regulatory compliance monitoring and reporting
- Support treatment and remediation activities with identified points of contact and system owners
- Develop processes and document procedures for use by other team members and to enhance efficiencies
What you’ll need:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work-related experience
- Strong knowledge of industry standards regarding vulnerability management including Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE), Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), OWASP, etc.
- Experience with different types of vulnerability assessment tools or related experience in vulnerability detection DAST/SAST tools
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with the capacity to effectively convey intricate security concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge with prioritizing remediation activities with operational teams through risk ratings of vulnerabilities and assets
- Experience judging the vulnerability priority based on risk and impact
- Deep application security knowledge, with the ability to map an application vulnerability to exploitation indications and relevant investigative techniques.
- Experience with at least one scripting language (Bash, Go, Python).
- Experience with Secure Software Development Life Cycles.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2+ years of experience in an information technology/security role
- 2+ years of experience with cloud technologies
- Ability to manage relationships with other business units, external vendors, and stakeholders when IT security risks are present and system or process changes must be made to mitigate risk
- Familiarity with AWS and at-scale services
- Experience with micro-service architecture
- Knowledge of CI/CD, application development and testing tools
- Ability to work in a fast paced and Agile development environment
- Work and play well with others; SoFi is a collaborative environment
Nice to have:
- Masters or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering
- Financial services experience
Compensation and Benefits
The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location.
To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our
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SoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.
The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
SoFi is committed to embracing diversity. As part of this commitment, SoFi offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email [email protected].
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