Senior Security Software Architect - Security Engineering - San Jose

Senior Security Software Architect - Security Engineering - San Jose

Location:

San Jose

Team:
Technology

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code: A11293

• Take a key role in designing and overseeing the development of secure software systems.
• Take the initiative to discover and define security problems, as well as engineering problems, from a security perspective in Byte Dance infrastructure; identify the security gaps between existing systems and security goals.
• Develop and maintain the overall security architecture for multiple software applications, including but not limited to authentication, authorization, applied cryptography data security, network security, etc.
• Review the existing security systems and oversee the integration of these systems with the company's infrastructure; improve or refactor the security systems from the perspective of performance, maintainability, usability, resilience, robustness, and full lifecycle cost.
• Collaborate with the security software development team, providing technical guidance, to ensure that security and engineering improvement requirements are translated into technical specifications and implemented correctly in the codebase.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
• 5 years of experience in software architecture and design, with a focus on security.
• Comprehensive and in-depth knowledge of the security domain, covering areas such as network security, software security, application security, data security, and security attack and defense.
• Solid background in system and security technologies, including operating systems, distributed systems, cryptographic technology, authentication, and access control, etc.
• Profound infrastructure and security architecture design capabilities; capable of integrating security requirements into system design based on business context and technical requirements with great maintainability and usability.
• Understand the security architecture of cloud computing; be familiar with security solutions in public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud environments with a solid background in distributed architecture, microservice architecture, storage system load balancing, fault-tolerance mechanism, etc.
• Proven track record of successfully designing and implementing secure software systems in complex and large scale enterprise environments, including security system development, security assessment, and security rectification/remediation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exhibiting outstanding cross-team communication skills, capable of clearly expressing security requirements and solutions, and promoting the implementation of security measures.
• A Master or PhD degree in computer science, information security, or a related field is preferred.
• An international degree or international working experience.
• Experience of software R&D and SRE in large internet companies.

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $257,400 - $616,000 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

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