Senior Security Engineer

Key responsibilities ✨

• Engage in vulnerability management activities: reduce the vulnerability backlog, industrialize SCA/SAST & DAST, maintain and improve the bug bounty program, organize internal pentests, and ensure 100% of developers are trained in secure coding practices.
• Strengthen corporate & product security by developing and maintaining the alerting system on the SIEM, and responding efficiently to security alerts.
• Engage in incident response activities, which involve identifying incidents through a monitoring plan (including rule detection and associated dashboards), assessing their existence and their severity, and finally efficiently resolving them.
• Enhance platform security by designing and implementing solutions to proactively mitigate cybersecurity risks and detect any unfair usage of the platform.
• Support, advise and make autonomous the engineering teams in the implementation of security best practices.


You will also participate in improving the security excellence of the development team, spread the security best practices at Malt, participate in our communities of practices (SRE, security, back-end, and front-end in particular), and increase your knowledge thanks to an active watch in the field of security and software.


You will participate in the animation of our security community of practice gathering members of all squads: software, cloud, and data engineers experienced and passionate about software security.


At Malt, we believe that curiosity is an asset. The whole squad participates in the product architecture, all decisions are collegial, and we regularly engage in discussions on the best way to do things.  

Our Tech Stack

• Frontend: TypeScript, Vue.js, Nuxt, Internal Design System, Stencil.js
• Backend: Kotlin, Java Spring Boot, Gradle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Redis
• Platform: Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, Gitlab CI 
• Mobile: Swift, KotlinData: Big Query, Looker, Spark, Python
• We practice continuous integration and delivery, we update Malt around 70 times per week in production. We intensively use Datadog for production monitoring and alerting.

About you 🧑‍🚀

• Minimum 4 years of experience in software security in an engineering team
• Strong understanding of web application security risks, particularly OWASP, and successfully implement solutions to address these risks in previous roles.
• Comfortable with modern web applications (Single page applications, REST, Cloud infrastructure, emails) and have some notions of Object-Oriented programming (such as Java or Python), Web programming languages (JavaScript and/or Typescript).
• Proficient in at least one Cloud platform, preferably GCP, and have experience with Kubernetes.
• Master the security of web applications, including familiarity with technologies like WAF, IDS/IPS, RASP, etc.
• Practical experience with at least one security events detection tool (SIEM or similar). 


You are versatile, autonomous, proactive, and demanding, you like to search for security flaws in software. You may have already participated in bug bounty programs yourself!


We would love to meet you!

How to join the mission? 🚀

• Screening with Alex, our Tech Talent Acquisition Manager, to better understand your background, aspirations and answer your questions (45 minutes)
• Interview with Irène, our Head of Security, to discuss your experience and the role in more detail (60 minutes)
• Technical Interview with the Security squad (90 minutes)
• Final interview with a C-Level to discuss Malt’s long term vision