[New Relic] Application Security Engineer

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New Relic
Application Security Engineer
Portland, OR

Are you ready for your next security challenge? New Relic is growing our world-class security team, and you have the opportunity to be part of it!

If you want to work in a dynamic environment with fast paced adoption of innovative technologies that creates a constant flow of new security challenges - then we have the job for you!

We are looking for passionate security professionals that want to be part of an exciting company that values employee empowerment, experimentation, and work-life balance. The right person will be driven to solve complex security challenges, push their skills, and learn new ones.

In this role, you will be responsible for promoting, designing, and evaluating application security in all phases of the development life cycle. You will work with groups and individuals from across the company, including development, support, and QA. More importantly, you will be on the leading edge of defining how to do security right in a continuous-deployment, cloud-based environment.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Identifying security issues and risks across New Relic's products and services via threat modeling, design and code reviews, and security testing
• Working with engineers to build secure software, addressing and mitigating security issues and risks
• Evaluatinge, designing, and implementing security tools and automation, including monitoring
• Participatinge in security incident handling
• Evangelizinge and building awareness of security throughout the development organization, including providing training

Skills and Experience needed to do the job:

• 3 or more years of Application Security experience
• Experience working on or with commercial software development teams
• Application development experience (Ruby, C, C++, C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, Perl)
• Strong scripting skills (Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Perl, shell scripting)
• Knowledge of OS (UNIX/OSX) and network fundamentals
• Experience in application vulnerability assessment, both at the design and implementation level
• In-depth knowledge of HTTP and HTTPS, web security issues, including the OWASP Top 10 and remediation techniques
• Working knowledge of applied cryptography (standard patterns, avoiding common mistakes )
• Excellent communication skills and customer focus
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience

It would be great if you have one of more of the following :

• Experience with service oriented architectures
• Proficiency in Ruby and/or Java
• Rails experience
• Deep knowledge of J2EE Security
• Experience with SAML
• Application and networking penetration testing experience
• Deep knowledge of mobile platform security
• Deep experience in applied cryptography (key management, crypto system/secure protocol design)

A little about us:

New Relic is a software analytics company that, on behalf of our customers, makes sense of billions of metrics about millions of applications, all in real time. Our comprehensive SaaS-based solution for web and mobile applications consolidates the performance monitoring data into a single, powerful interface. Our 90,000+ customers use New Relic every day to optimize more than three million applications.

New Relic is a San Francisco Best Places to Work award winner, an Oregon “Top Workplace” award winner, named a leader in the Gartner’s 2013 & 2014 “Magic Quadrant” for APM companies, a Top 100 OnDemand Company, Best of SaaS (THINKStrategies), Top 100 Coolest Cloud Computing (CRN); 10 Cloud Management Companies to Watch (NetworkWorld) – the list of accolades goes on. More important than all of that: we provide challenging work, opportunities to learn, high quality teammates, a standard-setting product, and a company on the move.

Our office is in the tech mecca of Portland, with easy commute access and a plethora of good eats and great coffee. We provide competitive compensation including stock options and big-company benefits (medical, dental, etc.)— all while maintaining the energy, agility and fun of a start-up. We can help with relocation and are open to H1-B transfers.

New Relic is most decidedly an equal opportunity employer. We eagerly seek applicants of diverse background and hire without regard to race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, individuals with disabilities, age, sexual orientation, protected veterans, or any other characteristic protected by law. Note: Our stewardship of the data of many thousands of customers means that a criminal background check is required to join New Relic.

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