Product Security Engineer at DNAnexus

Capital City of Prague, Prague, Czechia -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

06 May, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

05 Feb, 26

Experience

2 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Product Security, Threat Modeling, Software Development, Continuous Integration, Application Security, Collaboration, Incident Response, Compliance, Problem Solving, Technical Depth, Communication, Data Centric Decision Making, Team Player, Creativity, Self-Motivation, Integrity

Industry

Biotechnology Research

Description

Company Description DNAnexus is the leading cloud-based SaaS company serving the global life science community. DNAnexus’ health informatics platform serves customers across a spectrum of industries — government, biopharmaceutical, clinical diagnostics, healthcare, and academic research in 33 countries with compliant protection of data, privacy, and intellectual property. The platform provides a secure and collaborative environment where genomics, multi-omics, and real world data can be combined with clinical data at scale, providing new insights that can lead to improved diagnostics, new targeted therapies and better patient care. Job Description The Security Mission Our customers depend on the secure and reliable operation of the DNAnexus platform to run their business. From clinical research to large-scale multi-omics computation, our platform is essential to tackle some of the most exciting opportunities in human health. With DNAnexus, organizations can stay a step ahead in leveraging genomics to achieve their goals. DNAnexus brings it all together on a single secure, resilient, and scalable platform. The role You will be an essential part of our Product Security team and a critical player within our larger Security & Technology organization. Through close collaboration with Product Management and Engineering, you’ll develop pragmatic and elegant solutions to address the security concerns and risks that you identified in your initial threat modeling and evaluation of our product designs. As a part of the product design team, your input and experience will make DNAnexus products more resilient, reliable and secure. In order to be successful, a close understanding of how Software Engineering works and empathy with your software engineers will be crucial. As a security team, we strive to solve problems with an engineering mindset and with a strong understanding of the business context. The problems you will solve: You will aid our Product Managers in developing secure and resilient product designs. You’ll become a respected advisor to our software engineers and you’ll help them solve security & compliance problems without limiting product functionality or adding tech debt. You will design, build, and introduce security tooling that improves assurance of code in our pipelines and accelerates time to deployment of code. You’ll focus on training and education with your software engineering counterparts to improve velocity and security of our developed code. You’ll conduct threat modeling exercises and work closely with product & engineering to address the risks that you’ve identified. Your input as a security practitioner will be valuable for our Product Management team as we develop tooling to help our clients’ security and IT teams manage their use of our platforms. Qualifications The experience you will bring: Bachelors of Science in a computer science, cyber security, electrical engineering or related field. A firm understanding of software development (SDLC) & continuous integration/continuous deployment approaches, including commonly used IDE and git environments. An ability to navigate a product specification and connect the business objectives with the security risks of a new product feature. Prior threat modeling experience, in a software development context. You have assisted your peers in a security detection & response capacity, specifically you’ve helped incident response / SOC team members understand how a software application operates. Experience leveraging application security techniques to identify + validate the impact of application flaws and propose fixes. A strong collaboration track-record with both technical (engineering) and non-technical stakeholders. Prior exposure to regulated or life science environments. Personal Attributes and Values: You personally enjoy contributing to the security community and driving our industry to do better. Complex problems intrigue you and you leverage creative problem solving skills as well as the ability to ignite the creativity of others to solve these problems. Flexible, nimble, and scrappy; startup mentality and willingness/ability to change direction quickly if best for the business. You understand and can navigate the tradeoffs that allow us to manage our technical debt load. A self starter that can work independently and collaboratively across multiple workstreams without technical program management support. Able to earn the respect of the team on the basis of crisp execution, technical depth, hands-on style, and strategic decision making ability. Takes a data centric, objective approach to decision making and has the ability to put aside personal preferences, historical bias, peer pressure and political influences to arrive at decisions on a reasoned, objectively-defensible basis. Strong presence; good communicator and highly influential both externally as well as internally at the executive level and across the organization. A highly collaborative, team player with a company-first mentality; ability to influence, prioritize, and get alignment cross-functionally. A positive, energetic, can-do attitude. High EQ, hungry to succeed, achievement orientation, self-motivation. Highly confident, yet humble and self-aware. Entrepreneurial DNA; not afraid to take calculated risks, brings a mentality of rapid innovation and the desire to attain big goals. High integrity, principles, and ethics. Additional Information Based in Mountain View, California, DNAnexus is experiencing rapid growth and is searching for the best talent to join our team. We recently completed a $200 million financing round to advance our growth globally to further serve leading healthcare and life science organizations. Key investors include Google Ventures, Perceptive Advisors, Northpond Ventures, TPG Biotech, and Foresite Capital. DNAnexus will provide the necessary support to enable the ideal candidate to work remotely within the Czech Republic. Department: IT

Responsibilities

You will aid Product Managers in developing secure and resilient product designs while advising software engineers on security and compliance issues. Additionally, you will conduct threat modeling exercises and collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to address identified risks.