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[Remote] Application Security Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Parallels is a VDI/EUC product company delivering desktop and cloud solutions for modern work environments. The Application Security Engineer will coordinate vulnerability remediation, discover and exploit application vulnerabilities, support CVE disclosures, conduct threat modeling and design reviews, and improve secure development practices and security analysis tools.
Responsibilities
- Reproduce and triage incoming vulnerabilities from security automation/bug bounty programs, then propose granular fixes to engineers
- Discover vulnerabilities and construct exploits for core Parallels applications such as Parallels Remote Application Server
- Assist in the CVE disclosure process
- Provide threat models and design reviews for teams throughout the company
- Assist in tuning existing static analysis, dynamic analysis, and dependency management tools
Skills
- An attacker mindset: engineers will often want proof before fixes are implemented
- Eagerness to learn – you are not expected to know everything coming in, but you should continuously learn new techniques on the job
- The ability to communicate clearly, acknowledge mistakes, and disagree when necessary
- Demonstrable passion for offensive security
- Experience reading, writing and debugging C++ and Python code
- Basic experience with memory exploitation techniques
- Demonstrable experience with web exploitation techniques and tools (e.g. PortSwigger lab scoreboards)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- BSc/MS in computer science or a related field
- Previous CVEs in desktop applications
- Proficiency with reverse engineering tools
- Significant experience in memory exploitation techniques (e.g. gaining code execution from memory vulnerabilities in modern operating systems)
- Familiarity with cloud security best practices
- 3+ years of industry experience
- OSCP/OSWE/OSED/RET2 certification
Benefits
- Empowering people to work when, how, and where they want.
- Remote work
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