The Azure DevOps team is looking for great software engineers to help developers safeguard against vulnerabilities and critical security risks. We are seeking a Senior Security Software Engineer who is passionate about security, code, and contributing to secure development best practices. In this this position you will focus on improving security of one of the world's largest DevOps service providers. Learn more about Visual Studio Team Services and what we build here: https://www.visualstudio.com/team-services/ What makes this a great place to work? There are many things, but here are the highlights: • We are our own customer. We are the first ones to use everything we build. • The team is full of smart people who care about the work they do. They are also a pleasure to work with - We thrive on comradery, helping each other and having fun together. • We make a point of ensuring people have work-life balance. We offer 3 months paid paternity leave for men and 5 months for women, 12 paid
Key team responsibilities include: Security Risk Reduction – Identify, assess and prioritize the highest security risks, develop solution strategies, own remediation plans and execution to eliminate security defects and mitigate risk. Secure Development - Develop code fixes, templates and security toolsets to resolve security bugs and address classes of vulnerabilities. Participate in Threat Model reviews and provide security guidance to teams. Be on the forefront of defending against emerging threats which affect cloud services, including resolution of internally and externally found vulnerabilities
To thrive in this position, you'll need a deep technical understanding of a broad technology set and the ability to learn new information at a rapid pace. Strong development and communication skills, ability to deal with ambiguity, and a very high level of creativity and inquisitiveness are a must. You will have a passion for security and breaking things, and the ability to think like an adversary. Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering degree or equivalent experience • 7+ years' experience in security and software development Preferred Qualifications