Product Security Engineer
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Job Summary
SmartBear delivers application integrity for modern tech stacks ensuring continuous measurable assurance that software just works as intended with governance to operate at AI speed and scale. SmartBear offers deep test automation API lifecycle management and observability capabilities. With integrations across the SDLC it sets a new quality standard for application delivery teams.
SmartBear is trusted by more than 16 million developers testers and software engineers across 32000 organizations including 75% of the largest financial institutions and industry leaders such as Adobe JetBlue and Microsoft. SmartBears best-loved brands include Swagger TestComplete Reflect QMetry Zephyr and more. As stewards of a collaborative open source community SmartBear meets customers where they are to make our technology-driven world a better place. Learn more at or follow us on LinkedIn X and Reddit.
At SmartBear you will be part of a dynamic team solving one of the most critical challenges facing modern businesses: ensuring the integrity of software in an AI-driven world. Whether you are working directly with customers driving go to market strategies supporting operations building products or enabling teams your contributions help shape the future of software quality for organizations worldwide. Join us in our mission.
Product Security Engineer
- This position will be an advocate for security throughout the product and engineering processes defining security expectations verifying security controls and providing training and awareness.
- You will have the opportunity to work with product and engineering leaders to identify security weaknesses and security features that can will help protect customers and drive customer adoption of SmartBear products
- You will work with a variety of languages including Go Java React JS Ruby Python and many more leveraging the latest tools designed and built in the cloud.
Team Intro
The Product Security team covers over 25 existing products with more on the horizon. The collection of products range from home grown to acquired products creating complex and challenging processes allowing for expanded growth and learning opportunities every day.
About the role
As a Product Security Engineer at SmartBear you will:
- Join a collaborative Product Security team while being embedded in engineering and product groups to develop deep understanding of product priorities architecture and delivery timelines to drive security at the right stages of the SDLC.
- Partner closely with engineering teams architects and product leaders to validate the security posture of new and existing features prior to production deployment.
- Participate in Security Reviews including threat modeling exercises code review support and penetration testing under guidance from senior team members.
- Help triage and validate reported vulnerabilities working with engineering teams to understand impact and remediation approaches.
- Contribute to secure development lifecycle activities by learning security best practices and helping drive adoption through documentation and enablement.
- Communicate findings clearly document security issues and support verification of remediation efforts.
We are looking for you if you have:
- 13 years of experience in software engineering cybersecurity or application security.
- Familiarity with core application security concepts (OWASP Top 10 secure coding principles).
- Interest or exposure to SaaS products cloud environments or modern development pipelines.
- Basic ability to read and understand code in one or more languages (Java Python JavaScript etc.).
- Awareness of common security testing tools or vulnerability management processes.
- Strong curiosity collaborative mindset and desire to grow into a senior Product Security role.
Why you should join the SmartBear crew:
- You can grow your career at every level.
- We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work collaborate and have fun.
- We love celebrating our SmartBears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off.
- We are guided by a People and Culture organization - an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically the whole person.
- We celebrate our differences in experiences viewpoints and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes
Did you know
- Our main goal at SmartBear is to make our technology-driven world a better place.
- SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility promoting good in all the communities we serve.
- SmartBear is headquartered in Somerville MA with offices across the world including Galway Ireland Bath UK Wroclaw Poland Ahmedabad and Bangalore India.
- Weve won major industry (product and company) awards including B2B Innovators Award Content Marketing Association IntellyX Digital Innovator and Built-in Best Places to Work.
SmartBear is committed to creating an inclusive workplace for employees where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We are an equal opportunity employer and make employment decisions based on merit qualifications and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex national origin age gender disability veteran status sexual orientation or any other protected status under applicable laws. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that reflects a diversity of thought and experience as well as our values of being smart open driven accountable and curious.
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Testing and Development teams around the world use SmartBear's automation, development and monitoring tools to build better software and applications.
