Product Security Engineer
Job Description
Overview
CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information analytics and online in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100 CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the worlds real estate empowering all people to discover properties insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.
We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our continually refined transformed and perfected our approach to our business creating a language that has become standard in our industry for our customers and even our continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive is how we deliver for our customers our employees and equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.
CoStar builds and operates web applications related to real applications include and 75 other web backbone of our product security is our product platform security environment which consists of commercial and custom developed security controls that run within the IDE the CI/CD system across cloud and Kubernetes platforms and our product product platform security engineering group builds and operates centralized controls using infrastructure as code scripting and API integrations to scale security across all web applications in a consistent manner.
This position is located in Arlington VA or Richmond VA and offers a schedule of Monday through Thursday in office and Friday work from home.
Responsibilities
Features (responsibilities and goals) of our product platform security suite:(AKA what you will be building and evolving along a rockstar team that learns from and pushes each other to do great things!
- Preventive Security: Build realtime security feedback loops (IDE & CI/CD) gate environment builds manage WAF/Bot controls. Cloud IAM security and automation at large scale.
- Cloud & Container Hardening: Enforce cloud security posture (AWS GCP Azure) secure Kubernetes runtime manage federated IAM at scale.
- Threat Detection & Response: Enable incident response teams to hunt for threats build runtime monitoring on cloudnative workloads incident response escalation paths.
- Security Automation: Integrate automated scanning tools into CI/CD pipelines implement IaC solutions and drive automated remediation processes
- Mentorship & Collaboration: Work closely with product dev teams to provide feedback on secure coding practices proactively guide them on risk remediation.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree required from an accredited not for profit university orcollege(preferablyin Computer Science Cybersecurity or a related field)
- A track record of commitment to prior employers
- 4 years of handson security engineering experience in one or more of the following domains:
- Securing cloudnative environments (AWS preferred)
- Kubernetes platform hardening or monitoring
- CI/CD pipelines containerized application deployments and IAC
- CDN Security
- Demonstrated ability to author scripts or IAC from scratch in either Python PowerShell Ansible CloudFormation Terraform or similar language
- Experience working in a software development environment with a mature CI/CD
- Passion for solving complex challenges innovating and engaging in your work
Preferred Qualifications and Skills
- Strong communication skills with both software development and software leadership audiences
- Experience with tools like AWS GuardDuty Security Hub EKS OPA/Gatekeeper Falco Wiz Datadog Prisma Cloud Aqua Snyk or similar
- Handson experience with CDN and WAF security solutions especially Akamai (preferred) or comparable platforms such as Cloudflare AWS (CloudFront WAF) and similar providers.
- Knowledge of infrastructure operations across databases network and system administration
- Ability to communicate with different levels of leadership conveying risk and driving urgency for risk remediation.
- Familiarity with zero trust principles and cloudnative access controls (e.g. IAM roles service meshes..
- Ability to mentor and train team members to prioritize security efforts effectively.
- A selfstarter who can advance the application security program and followthrough ideas to completion.
- Handson experience implementing security tools into CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience testing serverless cloud deployments
Whats in it for You
When you join CoStar Group youll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.
We offer you generous compensation and performancebased incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training tuition reimbursement and an interoffice exchange program.
Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
- Life legal and supplementary insurance
- Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
- Commuter and parking benefits
- 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Onsite fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent) with yoga studio Pelotons personal training group exercise classes
- Access to CoStar Groups Diversity Equity & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
- Complimentary gourmet coffee tea hot chocolate fresh fruit and other healthy snacks
We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work fulltime in the United States to please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
#LIAR
CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drugfree workplace and perform preemployment substance abuse testing