Principal Engineer, Product Security
commercetools
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Berlin • Germany
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About the role
- Formulate, evangelise, and drive adoption of the product security strategy
- Assess, advise on, and increase the security maturity posture
- Create a standardised security architecture and operational best practices
- Help track and drive remediation of security and technology risks
- Educate product teams on risk assessments, threat modelling, and building secure api-first applications
- Review requirements and designs to help product teams address shortcomings
- Embed security tooling into the development process
- Contribute to the review of external penetration tests and help teams prioritise fixes
- Collaborate with product teams to improve overall security and resolve specific issues
- Facilitate or lead customer conversations regarding product security
- Triage and investigate new attack vectors to determine risk mitigation
- Drive security and quality initiatives across the organization and support certification audits
- Collaborate with Product Management, Principal Engineers, and legal/compliance teams
- Identify skills gaps and facilitate knowledge sharing across the organization
Requirements
- A strong technical background and 5+ years of proven track record in hands-on Product Security
- 2+ years of experience improving Product Security in a leadership role
- Experience with customer-facing security roles and influencing roadmaps in matrix organizations
- Experience in a scale-up environment with ambitious and competing priorities
- Expertise in formulating, elaborating, and clarifying requirements or priorities
- Experience with Secure Architecture design reviews and Threat Modeling
- Experience infusing security into various levels of the SDLC
- Experience with Static Analysis and Secure Code Review implementations
- Sound knowledge of Linux systems, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault, API, and web application security
- Practical experience in DevSecOps and proficiency in at least one scripting language like JavaScript or Go
- Project management experience for projects affecting multiple teams
- Experience working within an Agile environment with a strong customer focus
- Experience setting up and running trainings or onboardings
- Clear written and verbal communication in fluent English
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits for you and your dependents, including access to OpenUp for personalized mental health support
- Learning and development opportunities including an annual learning budget, access to self-paced learning platforms and language training, personalized coaching, mentorship, and leadership programs
- Family Leave Plus gives you additional fully paid weeks of parental leave on top of government-provided leave, so you can spend more time with your new addition
- Our equity participation program allows you to share in our success
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Hard Skills & Tools
Product SecuritySecure Architecture designThreat ModelingStatic AnalysisSecure Code ReviewDevSecOpsscripting languageLinux systemsKubernetesTerraform
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingknowledge sharingcustomer focusinfluencingproject managementfacilitationrisk assessment