Senior Application Security Engineer

Senior Application Security Engineer

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SENIOR APPLICATION SECURITY ENGINEER

BETHESDA.NET @ ROCKVILLE, MD, US | AUSTIN, TX, US
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Overview
Our Client is looking for a world class Senior Application Security Engineer to join a highly skilled team of senior security professionals responsible for security of AAA titles, digital platforms, and data in live and studio development environments. The ideal candidate has a proven record of developing, testing, and reviewing security measures within products at a source code level. Prior game development experience and an ability to understand the unique challenges facing the industry is a definite bonus.

Responsibilities

• Read and write professional-grade source code in a variety of languages


• Perform security reviews of applications (including games) and source code, policies, systems, and solutions in order to continue to strengthen our commercial products, platforms, and services


• Reverse-engineer and manipulate our games and applications, by request, to identify and help correct vulnerabilities that may be exploited for illicit cheating or hacking


• Provide detailed security review reports to developers and other stakeholders


• Adhere to high-quality standards and best practices, high performance, and scalable, repeatable processes and deliverables in accordance with applicable regulations


• Keep up with development and security trends in the video game industry and in the technology sector in general


• Occasional travel required

Qualifications

• 4+ years application security experience; or 5+ years software engineering experience including some application security experience


• Advanced experience reading and writing source code in a variety of languages


• Knowledgeable in security aspects of operating system internals


• Introductory knowledge of scripting languages or similar (Python, GoLang, Rust, etc)


• Advanced low-level debugging experience using tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, WinDbg, etc.


• Strong engineering skills with attention to detail


• Significant Git version control experience


• Ability to multi-task and thrive on a small team in a fast-paced environment


• Passionate about security technologies, techniques, and trends


• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills


• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, or similar, or equivalent experience

Preferred Skills

• Visual Studio


• Experience with C


• Usage and understanding of cryptographic libraries and implementations


• Build system implementation using cmake/make


• Perforce version control (P4V)


• Cloud computing and infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack, etc)


• Software product deployment


• Game industry technologies