Staff Security Engineer

What you can expect

The Staff Security Engineer is responsible for security design and reviews across our products and services. The ideal candidate brings broad technical expertise and hands-on experience in end-to-end product security.

In this role, you'll collaborate with engineering teams to design, implement, and validate secure solutions. You'll serve as a trusted security advisor, guiding architecture and reviewing implementation. This is a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud and security technologies while making a direct impact on Zoom's platform.

About the Team

The Security Architecture team is dedicated to ensuring Zoom releases and deploys secure products. We work with diverse engineering, compliance and DevOps teams across the organization to meet security goals and maintain compliance with established SLAs.

Responsibilities

• Being a security subject-matter expert, guide engineering teams in end-to-end secure system design and implementation.
• Conducting threat modeling, architecture review, security code review, security assessment, and security testing (web application, native application, web services, cloud-based services, and infrastructure assessments).
• Performing cloud infrastructure reviews from a security perspective; the primary focus will be on AWS and many of its common service components such as S3, IAM, EC2, VPC, etc.
• Performing an in-depth security review of new Zoom features and functionalities. This includes identifying security vulnerabilities such as those in the OWASP Top Ten, common issues from the NVD, and risks like RCE. It also involves reviewing C++ and/or Java code and verifying security posture through manual and automated testing using tools like Burp Suite and Coverity.
• Identifying gaps in existing cloud security architecture design/configuration, recommend changes or enhancements (authentication, authorization, network segmentation, container configuration, bastion host setup, etc.).
• Providing hands on security training and secure coding best practices to engineering teams.

• Have obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Cyber Security, Computer or Electrical Engineering (or similar field), and 5+ years in security.
• Have extensive experience in security testing in various environments, including assessing security posture of web application, native application, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure such as AWS.
• Possess a solid understanding of software security architecture, design, threat modeling, secure code review, cryptography, and the SDLC. Able to clearly communicate best practices and effective mitigations for application security.
• Have hands on security experience working with AWS and common service components within AWS. Ability to identify security gaps in the overall design as well as configuration issues in individual components.
• Have in-depth knowledge of network based, system level, and application layer attacks and mitigation methods.
• Have good knowledge of technology and security topics including network and application security (OWASP), infrastructure hardening, security baselines, web server, database security and applied cryptography.
• Have good development experience in one or more of the programming languages and platforms such as C++ or Java is required.
• Having knowledge of email systems and protocols will be an advantage, as well as being proficient in spoken Mandarin.