Sr Product Security Engineer - HashiCorp Security

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This position involves contributing to Hashi Corp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

About this team:

The Product Security Platform Partnerships team is composed of security engineers working to ensure Hashi Corp delivers secure software to its customers. We work closely with product engineering teams at Hashi Corp, enabling them to write secure code and embed security into the development processes. We are responsible for design review, threat modeling, and code review of new features, as well as vulnerability management across our entire product portfolio.

We are looking for a Senior Product Security Engineer to help scale our product security function, partnering closely with Research & Development teams to ensure that security is appropriately addressed across the Hashi Corp suite of cloud, self-managed, and community products.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Contribute to secure architecture and design of Hashi Corp products, across our cloud, self-managed, and community product portfolio.
• Work across various R&D teams to prioritize security features and bugs, and ensure implementation and mitigations.
• Monitor threats and vulnerabilities impacting Hashi Corp products and services; triage reported vulnerabilities, identify mitigations and assess/communicate associated risk.
• Act as SME on multiple information security areas (e.g. security architecture, application security, threat modeling etc.).
• Plan & execute security assessments (dynamic testing, static testing, code review, etc) and threat modeling of Hashi Corp’s products, services, and associated cloud infrastructure.
• Assist in execution of 3rd-party audits, penetration tests, and bug bounty programs.
• Contribute to the development of security solutions across the product life-cycle, such as standalone security tools, CI/CD pipeline integrations, product security features/fixes, etc.
• Contribute to the creation and delivery of security training.
• Research emerging attack vectors and techniques.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

• 8–10+ years of security experience, preferably partnering with product/engineering teams.
• Strong security architecture & design, including threat modeling.
• Deep expertise in cloud security across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP (multi-tenant SaaS/IaaS/PaaS).
• Solid understanding of secure development & operations practices in modern engineering workflows.
• Proficiency in application & infrastructure security testing, vulnerability management, and mitigation.
• Knowledge of identity and authentication management (SSO, SAML, OIDC, SCIM), and cryptography fundamentals.

• Modern engineering practices, processes, and tools, particularly related to the Go programming language and ecosystem.
• Knowledge of application security topics, a pragmatic approach to security, and the ability to empathize with engineers and product managers across the company.

Job Title:

Sr Product Security Engineer - Hashi Corp Security

Location:

Lowell, San Jose, Austin

State/Province:
Texas, Massachusetts, California

Country:
United States

Work arrangement:
Hybrid

Area of work:
Security

Employment type:

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year:

Projected Maximum Salary per year:

Some travel may be required based on business demand.

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