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Principal Application Security Engineer
Barracuda Networks Inc.United States, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 12 Mar 2025
💰 $250,000/yr($191,500/yr – $250,000/yr)
About the role
Job ID 25 -618 Come join our passionate team! Barracuda is a leading cybersecurity company providing complete protection against complex threats. Our platform protects email, data, applications, and networks with innovative solutions, and a managed XDR service, to strengthen cyber resilience. Hundreds of thousands of IT professionals and managed service providers worldwide trust us to protect and support them with solutions that are easy to buy, deploy, and use. We know a diverse workforce adds to our collective value and strength as an organization. Barracuda Networks is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to equal employment opportunity and equitable compensation regardless of race, gender, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability. Envision yourself at Barracuda The Principal Application Security Engineer assures the safety and security of Barracuda Networks software and services through source code review, manual application security assessment, operation and integration of automated security assessment solutions, architecture review, and expert advice regarding software security trends, threats, best practices and incidents. Through assuring the safety and security of Barracuda Networks software and services, the Application Security Engineer helps to keep our customers and their data safe and secure. Tech Stack Exposure
- A deep understanding of software security best practices and vulnerabilities, especially as they relate to web applications (e.g. OWASP Top 10)
- Experience identifying vulnerabilities in software and SaaS services
- Experience in source code review, preferably for Python, PHP and Go
- Experience in scoping and performing manual application penetration testing
- Experience in assessing the risk of identified vulnerabilities, and providing correct, robust and actionable recommendations to mitigate and/or resolve the vulnerabilities
- Experience in understanding software vulnerabilities, in finding other instances of the vulnerability across codebases, and in identifying collateral/related vulnerabilities.
- Experience in assessing the implemented resolution of a vulnerability for completeness and accuracy, and identifying bypasses for the implemented resolution
- Experience in working collaboratively with software development teams to identify vulnerabilities in all stages of software development
- Experience in communicating effectively with people of varying security proficiency and interest (fellow security professionals, engineering, and management)
- The ability to coordinate and participate in wide-scale Software Incident Security Response exercises such as the log4j response, understanding and unpacking information as incidents unfold, and in working across the organization to deliver a comprehensive "Identify, Resolve, Validate" solution
- Basic programming experience in at least one language, preferably Python or Go, and experience in automating routine tasks such as searching source code and manipulating data.
- Ensure the secure delivery of software from design through to implementation
- Maintain awareness of software security trends, incidents, and best practices, and provide expert advice and guidance to engineering teams regarding secure development and vulnerability remediation.
- Manage Barracuda’s bug bounty programs
- Work collaboratively with the organization, including with Security, Compliance and Engineering, to understand and remediate computer and software security incidents
- Evaluate new and emerging security technologies, features, and products.
- 7+ years of experience
- The ability to perform source code review in new and unfamiliar languages using knowledge of security best practices and a willingness to read documentation
- Solutions architecture review experience, and the ability to identify opportunities and vulnerabilities early in the specification and development of software
- Threat modelling experience
- Fuzzing experience
- Experience using and integrating automated software security scanners such as SAST/DAST/SCA
- An understanding of Infrastructure as Code and cloud platform security (preferably Azure and A
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