Team Lead/Manager - Application/Product Security

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About the Team
The team is missioned to build infrastructures, platforms and technologies, as well as to support cross-functional teams to protect our users, products and infrastructures. In this team you'll have a unique opportunity to have first-hand exposure to the strategy of the company in key security initiatives, especially in building scalable and secure-by-design systems and solutions. Our challenges are not your regular day-to-day technical problems; you'll be part of a team that's developing new solutions to new challenges of a kind not previously addressed by big tech. It's working fast, at scale, and we're making a difference.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of passionate individuals focused on improving the security posture of the company's products and systems.
- Develop positive and trusted relationships with business partners both inside and outside of the company.
- Ensure individual support and talent development for direct reports, leading the team in terms of technical excellence and practicing ByteStyle principles to ensure a trusting, safe working environment.
- Design and perform tests and check cases to analyze design, architectures, existing systems services, operating systems, networks and applications from a security perspective, via black box testing, code reviews, automation, threat modeling and research. This is to meet confidentiality, integrity, authentication, availability, authorisation, and nonrepudiation standards.
- Translate requirements into test plan, write and execute test scripts or codes in line with standards and procedures to determine vulnerability to attacks.
- Certify infrastructure components, systems and applications that meet security standards.
- Discover security issues that appear under new threat scenarios, support incident response, forensics, remediation in a cross-functional environment driving towards incident resolution.

Qualifications

Minimal Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other relevant majors.
- 5+ years of security engineering experience such as design review, threat modeling, security mitigation development, security tooling development or privacy engineering.
- Advanced knowledge and understanding in various disciplines: web application security, mobile app security, network security, operating system internals and hardening, applied cryptography, cloud computing. You're expected to be an expert in at least one of these areas.
- Solid experience in writing and reviewing code in at least one of the following programming languages: JavaScript (Node JS), Go, Python, Java, C++, Rust.
- Strong problem-solving skills and excellent debugging / troubleshooting skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Over 2 years of experience in managing an engineering team, demonstrating robust leadership skills and resilience under stress.
- Proven track record in leading a Product Security team and spearheading the integration of SDLC practices throughout the organisation.
- Previous accomplishments include the successful development of security products (SAST/DAST/IAST) and driving their adoption across internal teams.

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