Cybersecurity Sr Software Engineer
Cox Automotive
Sandy Springs, GA, United States
Sandy Springs, GA, United States
- IT
- Full-time
- cybersecurity software engineer
- secure coding
- cloud security
The Cybersecurity Senior Software Engineer designs and develops automated security solutions, integrating security best practices into software development workflows primarily using cloud technologies such as AWS. They lead secure coding initiatives, guide engineering teams on security tools and infrastructure, and operationalize application security tools to enhance secure software delivery. This role also involves collaborating on AI-augmented software development and mentoring peers while maintaining high standards for secure architecture and process improvements.
Job Purpose:
The Cybersecurity Sr Software Engineer helps build automated solutions around our security tools. This individual will help guide the team to contribute to these initiatives with high software quality in mind. They will also guide technical and security engineering discussions within the team, and will be seen as an authority on secure coding, secure infrastructure, and secure design best practices. They will help to imagine and shape the systems and process flows on incorporating security organically into the engineering teams' day to day workflows.
This engineer will work with AWS and other cloud technologies as well as a variety of commercial and open source security products and frameworks. While this is an individual contributor role, you'll be involved in many aspects - help evolve our existing architecture, reduce complexity, work with engineering teams to improve operations, and implement and operationalization new security tooling, as needed. Beyond automation of onboarding or usage of our application security tools, we strive for continuous improvement of processes and the integration of best practices. We're looking for someone who has an interest in application security, cloud technologies and a passion to help the organization create secure-by-default world-class software.
Key Responsibilities:
Essential Skills:
Desirable Skills:
USD 99,000.00 - 165,000.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary of $99,000.00 - $165,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
The Cybersecurity Sr Software Engineer helps build automated solutions around our security tools. This individual will help guide the team to contribute to these initiatives with high software quality in mind. They will also guide technical and security engineering discussions within the team, and will be seen as an authority on secure coding, secure infrastructure, and secure design best practices. They will help to imagine and shape the systems and process flows on incorporating security organically into the engineering teams' day to day workflows.
This engineer will work with AWS and other cloud technologies as well as a variety of commercial and open source security products and frameworks. While this is an individual contributor role, you'll be involved in many aspects - help evolve our existing architecture, reduce complexity, work with engineering teams to improve operations, and implement and operationalization new security tooling, as needed. Beyond automation of onboarding or usage of our application security tools, we strive for continuous improvement of processes and the integration of best practices. We're looking for someone who has an interest in application security, cloud technologies and a passion to help the organization create secure-by-default world-class software.
Key Responsibilities:
- Reporting to the Security Engineering Director, serves as a member of the Security Engineering Enablement team
- Works with partner engineering teams to create applications and services that align to the Security Engineering's mission and goals to integrate security seamlessly into our dev teams' workflow
- Leverages technology (tools, capabilities, processes) to level up software engineering teams' secure coding practices and knowledge
- Operationalizes off the shelf application security tools to help engineering teams build, deploy and deliver secure software
- Provide situational white glove service to critical business engineering teams
- Must be able to help engineering teams fix application security defects using a variety of technology stacks
- Promotes incorporation of security processes and practices to make security an organic part of a declarative pipeline model (e.g. CICD practices)
- Communicate process and tool automation improvements to the Product Owner, as opportunities and repeating concerns are observed
- Helps define the team's tasks and objectives, based on continuing analysis of service requests
- Creates automation solutions to support tool administration and operation
- Consistently exhibits a positive attitude and desire to help the team to succeed
- Design and build monitoring systems for developed automation applications and services
- Participate in On-call rotation with the team (once every 3-4 weeks)
- Consistently meets or exceeds predefined support and services Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
- Executes tasks with minimal supervision
- Collaborate with AI agents to build, test, and deploy software across the SDLC, by using proper contextual inputs to improve AI understanding and output quality.
- Implement AI-powered features and pipelines in our software
- Contribute to prompt engineering experimentation and share tool usage insights.
- Define coding standards, review practices, and ethical guidelines for AI use.
- Mentor peers and coach junior team members on AI-augmented development.
Essential Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 2 years' experience; a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 16 years' experience in a related field
- Bachelor's Degree; preferably Computer Science major, Cybersecurity Software Engineering or equivalent experience
- Proven and demonstrable experience building software applications with C# and python
- Proven and demonstrable experience with front end or JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJS
- Experience designing and implementing automated solutions using Cloud native technologies
- Strong cloud infrastructure experience in AWS
- Solid understanding of DevOps - automated deployments and release orchestration
- Solid understanding of containers and microservice architecture
- An understanding of the latest cybersecurity best practices, and related security tools such as SAST, SCA, DAST
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship. No OPT, CPT, STEM/OPT or visa sponsorship now or in future.
Desirable Skills:
- Masters in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or equivalent experience
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code technology such as Terraform
- An understanding of deployment methodologies like Blue/Green, Canary, etc.
- Familiarity with various Cloud monitoring tools (Cloudwatch, New Relic, Splunk)
- Familiarity with networking and network security
- Experience with scalable networking technologies and architecture
- Familiarity with standard IT security practices such as encryption, certificates, and key management
- Working knowledge of infrastructure technologies such as OS (Linux and Windows), Network, Database, Server, Storage etc.
- Comfortable with build and deploy tools
- Experience managing, building, debugging and deploying Docker containers and microservice architecture
- Experience with GenAI and Agentic architecture
USD 99,000.00 - 165,000.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary of $99,000.00 - $165,000.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
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