Security Research Engineer

About Us

Boostsecurity.io is a cybersecurity technology startup. Our mission is to enable software teams to easily ship secure software and secure their software supply chains through smart security automation that developers love.

Founded by veteran industry experts in application security, cloud, and OSS engineering, BoostSecurity is headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with US operations in Silicon Valley, California. We serve the needs of modern global customers and providers in technology, health, finance, logistics, human resources, and cybersecurity.

The Role

BoostSecurity is looking for Security Research Engineers to expand our team in Montreal and help us continue to grow our product. We are building technology for technologists, offering an opportunity to work on a high-performing security team supporting a fast-growing security technology. This role is ideal for a Senior Engineer interested in cutting-edge security research related to software supply chain security.

What you'll work on as part of our team:

• Design, implement, and test security capabilities on our platform that will secure thousands of companies for the decade to come.
• Collaborate with a PM, Designer, and other engineers to ship in a quick-moving, iterative environment; balancing speed with high code and product standards.
• Conduct security research covering Application Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Developer tooling, CI / CD tooling, open source software vulnerabilities, and more.

Requirements

What you'll need to succeed:

• Advanced Application Security / DevSecOps knowledge, with practical experience and tool building.
• SAST / DAST / IAST experience.
• Cloud security expertise (Cloud Native Security technology).
• Knowledge of modern secure software development processes and tools.
• Software development skills:
• While this is not a software development position, extensive use of Python is required to automate security research and develop proof-of-concept tools.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, iterative software development environment.

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