iHerb is a leading eCommerce platform dedicated to health and wellness products. The Product Security Engineer will enhance the Secure Development Lifecycle processes and collaborate with global development teams to implement security initiatives and respond to emerging security threats.
Responsibilities:
- Drive cross-functional projects and establish cutting-edge security development lifecycle practices
- Lead security design reviews and threat modeling for new and existing services at iHerb
- Evaluate, prototype, implement, and operate security-focused tools and services
- Develop new secure architecture standards, frameworks and patterns spanning multiple layers
- Understand and analyze emerging security threats, determining applicability to iHerb and proactively implement centralized mitigations
- Evaluate, prototype, implement, and operate security tools and services (DAST, SAST, SCA...)
- Maintain a strong knowledge of current security threats and operational best practices
- Take part in our security assessment, penetration testing and bug bounty programs
- Participate in security incident response
Requirements:
- Demonstrated technical foundation
- Solid understanding of common application and infrastructure security vulnerabilities and mitigations (OWASP Top 10, CWE 25…)
- Proficiency implementing SDL process, technology, and automation in a DevOps environment
- Experience with large-scale web applications and microservices, including API design, access management, authorization, authentication, data protection and encryption
- Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration and communication skills
- Experience driving application security training, security champions and awareness campaigns
- Active contributor to the security community (research, open source, publications…)
- Knowledge of major programming languages and frameworks (e.g. Python, C# .NET, JavaScript, node.js, Java...)
- Generally requires three (3) plus years of technical security experience at top-tier software companies including experience with security products, threat modeling, security design, security architecture, cryptography, mobile security, and broader cloud computing technologies
- Computer Science / Engineering degree or equivalent experience with an ability to translate technical vulnerabilities into organizational risks
- Able to identify, troubleshoot and resolve problems quickly using sound judgment, poise and diplomacy
- Ability to use judgment and reasoning skills, and determine when to escalate issues, as required, in a timely manner