Senior Security Engineer, Application SecurityLondon...

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Blockchain.com is the world's leading software
platform for digital assets. Offering the largest production
blockchain platform in the world, we share the passion to code,
create, and ultimately build an open, accessible and fair financial
future, one piece of software at a time. We are looking for a
Senior Application Security Engineer to join our Security team as
we tackle some of the most interesting problems in the crypto
space, like how do we securely scale a distributed financial
platform that touches millions of people a day. At Blockchain.com,
Security is a mindset and a set of engineering approaches to better
protect stakeholders, users and systems by building our creative
engineering solutions to hard, sometimes previously unseen
problems. The Security team is responsible for the big picture of
how systems are designed for Security, and we use a breadth of
tools and approaches to solve a broad spectrum of problems.
Practices aimed at achieving proactive identification of potential
threat actors combined with in-depth investigation of security
issues into iterative improvement are key to both product security
and interesting and dynamic day-to-day work. Security at
Blockchain.com is a work in progress - we are looking for an
experienced, Senior Application Security Engineer to expand our
Security platform and provide leadership across the Security and
the broader engineering team. Are you ready for a challenge? WHAT
YOU WILL DO: 1. Work closely with Engineering teams to define
security requirements and perform design assessments at early
stages. 2. Perform code reviews across the lifecycle of products,
and penetration tests on internal and Internet-facing services. 3.
Develop, communicate, and promote best practices for the secure
development and deployment of services. 4. Implement improvements
in the strategy, processes and tooling, enhance the overall Secure
Software Development Lifecycle process and lead the adoption of the
“Security by design” principle. 5. Build software and implement
tooling to validate and enforce secure baselines for software
development, deployment and release. 6. Review development
processes for security functionality and consistency and develop
Security playbooks. 7. Design and implement libraries and tooling
for security sensitive operations (data encryption, authentication,
access, logging, input validation, etc.) 8. Support Engineering
teams with implementing security fixes, and develop strategies to
proactively secure their code. WHAT YOU WILL NEED: 1. Extensive
knowledge of secure standards and practices to build software
preferably in at least one JVM based language such as Java and
Kotlin. 2. Experience working on different kinds of assignments
including code reviews, secure standard development, and building
secure software. 3. Proven experience implementing Security in
highly regulated environments. Previous experience in
cryptocurrency projects is a plus. 4. Experience with OWASP, Static
and Dynamic Application Security Testing (AST) and dependency
validation (SCA) tools. Experience with integration into CI/CD
pipelines is a plus. 5. Knowledge of Security monitoring techniques
and tools to provide actionable events to trigger automated
detection and containment and ensure traceability across the entire
stack. 6. An innate curiosity, strong inclination towards best
practices and thrivingness on learning new technologies. 7. A
pragmatic approach to developing clean solutions to complex
problems. 8. The foremost quality for this position or any position
at Blockchain.com is integrity. COMPENSATION & PERKS: 1.
Amazing and accessible office location in the heart of London. 2.
Unlimited vacation policy. 3. Apple equipment. 4. Full-time salary
based on experience and meaningful equity in an industry-leading
company. 5. London Benefits: Private Medical Insurance (BUPA),
Dental, Pension, Life, Short Term & Long Term Disability. 6.
The opportunity to be a key player and build your career at a
rapidly expanding, global technology company in an emerging field.
7. Flexible work culture. APPLICATION: 1. LinkedIn profile. 2. Link
to github, stackoverflow, personal website and/or blog (if
applicable). Blockchain is committed to diversity and inclusion in
the workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We
prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race,
religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sex,
sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability
status or any other characteristic protected by law. This policy
applies to all employment practices within our organization,
including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff,
recall, leave of absence, and apprenticeship. Blockchain makes
hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and
business needs at the time. #J-18808-Ljbffr

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