Senior Security Engineer

The  Team:

Within our InfoSec organization, Our global security engineering team is responsible for designing, building, and enhancing the underlying security components that help with securing the Celonis Application and Platforms stacks. We think about both offensively and defensively. We continuously monitor our global security posture and are always adapting to the ever-changing threat landscape. The security engineering team is always looking for talented subject matter experts in application, platform and offensive security.

The Role:

Celonis is looking for a Senior Application Security Engineer to help assess and validate that our services, applications, and websites are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. You will be responsible for analyzing the security of applications and services, discovering and addressing security issues, building security automation, and quickly reacting to new threat scenarios. You will have the opportunity to mentor the application security engineers who are building and securing our cutting-edge application layer services.

The work you’ll do:

• Conduct threat modeling, secure code reviews, and security assessments across web/native application, and infrastructure, proactively identifying vulnerabilities and providing clear recommendations to the development teams.
• Conduct security architecture reviews of the application stack, including applications built on cloud and emerging technologies.
• Review source code for potential security issues, writing security test cases to check for vulnerabilities or broken/missing security controls.
• Provide specific risk assessment and remediation guidelines for developers and business owners.
• Research the latest security best practices, trends, threats and vulnerabilities, and technology frameworks.

• Perform in-depth security review of new features. This includes identifying security vulnerabilities (including, but not limited to OWASP top ten), reviewing code in Java or C++, verifying security posture through source-assisted security assessments and penetration testing (using manual/automated techniques with tools such as Burp suite and Semgrep).
• Partner with engineering and operation teams to integrate mitigation controls into continuous integration, delivery and deployment processes.
• Work on essential areas to develop security baseline for application, container, cloud, orchestration platforms, and integrate it into the CI/CD pipeline.

• Implement security architecture, methods, and controls required to meet security, compliance, and audit requirements (NIST controls, SOC2, etc.).
• Lead complex security projects, from initial planning through execution and completion.
• Act as internal advocate and subject matter expert on secure software development practices.
• Lead secure development awareness communications and training initiatives.

The qualifications you’ll need:

• 5+ years of previous experience in information security.
• 3+ years of previous experience working within software development.
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Security/Cyber Security or equivalent.
• Proven track record of performing secure design reviews and threat modeling on complex systems.
• Comprehensive knowledge of fundamental application security principles, secure coding practices, and common web application vulnerabilities, including those listed in OWASP Top 10.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to articulate and communicate risks to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and in cross-functional teams, effectively multitasking in a fast-paced environment.
• Firm understanding of enterprise class application architectures that are highly scalable and reliable and the expertise to secure them.
• History of leading and delivering complex security projects.