Security Engineer (Security Posture Analysis) - Offensive Security Operations - USDS

Responsibilities

About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
At TikTok, our people are humble, intelligent, compassionate and creative. We create to inspire - for you, for us, and for more than 1 billion users on our platform. We lead with curiosity and aim for the highest, never shying away from taking calculated risks and embracing ambiguity as it comes. Here, the opportunities are limitless for those who dare to pursue bold ideas that exist just beyond the boundary of possibility. Join us and make impact happen with a career at TikTok.

About USDS
At TikTok, we're committed to a process of continuous innovation and improvement in our user experience and safety controls. We're proud to be able to serve a global community of more than a billion people who use TikTok to creatively express themselves and be entertained, and we're dedicated to giving them a platform that builds opportunity and fosters connection. We also take our responsibility to safeguard our community seriously, both in how we address potentially harmful content and how we protect against unauthorized access to user data.

U.S. Data Security (“USDS”) is a standalone department of TikTok in the U.S. This new security-first division was created to bring heightened focus and governance to our data protection policies and content assurance protocols to keep U.S. users safe. Our focus is on providing oversight and protection of the TikTok platform and user data in the U.S., so millions of Americans can continue turning to TikTok to learn something new, earn a living, express themselves creatively, or be entertained. The teams within USDS that deliver on this commitment daily span Trust & Safety, Security & Privacy, Engineering, User & Product Ops, Corporate Functions and more.

TikTok Offensive Security Operation team is seeking a Technical Security Controls Validation specialist. This team will work with the Risk & Compliance team and Control Owners to perform testing of the tools, technology and services (TTS) being introduced in the USDS environment. This testing effort will be done both from how the control framework is being applied to individual TTS and also to test how those TTS are performing and behaving as a security control within the environment.

To succeed in this role, the candidate will possess breadth and depth of knowledge in secure coding principles, security architecture, hardening of operating systems, networking protocols, firewalls, databases and middleware applications, forensics, scripting and programing.

Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with cross-functional control owners to stress test the controls being applied and implemented on TTS in the USDS environment.
- Consult and provide guidance for the design and implementation of key security and compliance controls.
- Construct technical test cases, collect evidence, perform hands on technical testing. Work with Control Owners to evaluate the design, effectiveness, and completeness of controls.
- Look for automation opportunities to automate testing and monitoring efficiency of controls on an ongoing basis.
- Provide feedback to the Risk & Compliance team and the Control Owners around the security control and processes being implemented. Augment the Control Framework and Risk Management Framework from an attacker's point of view.
- Synthesize and report findings, develop remediation recommendations, and track implementation through to completion
- Provide risk-appropriate and pragmatic recommendations to correct identified flaws, vulnerabilities and misconfigurations
- Utilize attacker tools, tactics, and procedures to perform analysis and identify vulnerabilities and mis-configurations

Qualifications

Qualifications:
- Bachelors’ Degree or industry equivalent work experience in IT, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity or a similar field
- Minimum 5+ years of IT risk, pentest and security controls experience
- Strong writing and documentation skills; you are clear, concise, confident, and unafraid to present your ideas
- Communicating well as this role will require a lot of cross functional collaboration
- Flexible to travel as the need arises to perform testing on-site e.g. Data centers, office locations etc. (Estimated Frequency: once in 2-3 months)
- Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration skills, in particular in working with or contributing to multi-functional teams

- Controls Testing
- Familiarity in IT and security domains (Identity and Access Management, Configuration Management, Vulnerability Management, Incident Management, etc.) and familiarity with technolog