Application Security Engineer

Overview

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live.

Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Technology, Digital and Data

Join the Cybersecurity team of Cat Digital and build software solutions that drive automation and security into the application development lifecycle. You will have deep integration with applications as they move from an idea into a solution, integrating Security and Dev Ops practices and enabling delivery for Caterpillar Digital Applications. Be a part of the team that is using innovative solutions and methods to securely enable, build, and deploy modern applications and software.

This role is an excellent opportunity for an experienced software engineer with a passion for cybersecurity to move to a full-time cybersecurity role and help their fellow software engineers deliver solutions securely.

• As an Application Security Engineer, you will work as a technical engineer within a portfolio of related applications to guide software engineers on cybersecurity issues, influence security and prioritization decisions at the bug or story level, and act a trusted partner in their mission to deliver solutions securely.
• Security Defect Management - Analyzing, validating, communicating, and consulting on security defects identified by automated and manual sources such as CodeQL, Rapid7 Web Application Security, penetration testing, bug bounty, etc. In other words, our security engineers are partners to software engineers who require accurate information on why a vulnerability exists and what they can do about it.
• Engineering Consulting – Serving as a “best friend” to software engineers, architects, product owners, and leaders, provide contextually-aware guidance to help these groups make good decisions, document those decisions and resulting architectures, and navigate relevant review & approval processes when implementing new features and remediating existing issues.
• Tool Enablement - Enabling and monitoring automated defect detection tooling at the repository or application level according to established process.
• Security Test Onboarding & Management – Collecting and communicating required scope and access information for penetration testing and security assurance assessments, as well as handling the output of these assessments via our Defect Management Process.
• Maturity Measurement – Consulting with software engineers on practices which will improve their application’s security maturity according to scorecards and maturity models established by Cat Digital.
• Correction of Error – Authoring, in close partnership with software engineers, correction of error reports which help engineers and architects across Cat Digital avoid similar mistakes in their own applications.

• Decision Making and Critical Thinking:
  Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Effective Communications:
  Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
• Software Development Life Cycle:
  Knowledge of software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.
• Software Integration Engineering:
  Knowledge of software integration processes and functions; ability to design, develop and maintain interfaces and linkage to alternative platforms and software packages.
• Software Product Design/Architecture:
  Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market…