Position: Senior Application Security Engineer
Company: BigCommerce
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

BigCommerce is disrupting the e-commerce industry as the SaaS leader for fast- growing, mid-market businesses. We enable our customers to build intuitive and engaging stores to support every stage of their growth. BigCommerce is seriously growing its information security team, get in whilst the Security team is still small and you’ll have the ability to influence the culture and direction moving forward. As the BigCommerce e-commerce SaaS platform handles information at a large scale, we need to anticipate and protect against attackers targeting BigCommerce or our customer. Our engineers are called on to wear many hats, you’ll be very well rounded, with experience as a software developer, penetration tester, and able to work independently to provide technical expertise to other software developers. 

**Who you are:**

● Bachelor’s degree in CS, EE or MIS; or equivalent experience.
● Solid understanding of how the web works, Web Application Security concepts, exploits, and threat prevention.
● Skills to Test, Triage, review, and provide recommendations for vulnerabilities.
● 5 plus years of experience in application security related fields (code reviews, application penetration testing, security engineering, etc.).
● Passionate about security and willingness to learn, unlearn and relearn if necessary.
● Knowledge of development and integration tools and technologies(Ex. CI/CD).
● 1 plus years of software development experience in PHP, Ruby, Java, or similar relatable technology — is a plus.
● The ability to explain security issues to developers, engineers, and management.
● Strong communicator with a bias towards honesty and transparency.
● Experience working on global teams.
● Experience in Bug bounties, speaking at conferences, blogging, etc. is highly desirable.
● Nice to have one/many certifications such as GXPN, OSCP, OSCE, CEH.
● Advanced English.

**What you’ll do:**

● Respond to information security incidents, providing technical expertise.
● Provide security guidance and experience to BigCommerce engineering teams.
● Review project technical designs and stay involved through their implementation to assist BigCommerce engineering staff with the finer points of application security.
● Help build internal security tooling to enable us be to be more proactive.
● Utilise data to help generate insights into threats, driving towards conclusions that allow for better prioritization and solutioning.
● Mentor team members in best practice around information security standards.
● Regular and ongoing pen testing of BigCommerce’s growing environment.
● Evangelize security within BigCommerce and be an advocate for BigCommerce customers.
● Protect BigCommerce Merchants, Shoppers, and the company.

**What’s in it for you:**

● Enjoy an amazing business culture while working with one of the most exciting global e-commerce companies.
● Work directly with our customers and partners.
● Benefit from collaborating with a fast-growing team of professionals in a global environment.
● Competitive financial package.
● Control your own schedule.
● Personal time off.
● Interactive events and activities for all engaged in the project.