Product Security Engineer - Threat Labs

Product Security Engineer - Threat Labs

  

This role has been designated as ‘Remote/Teleworker’, which means you will primarily work from home.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

   

Job Description
The Senior Security Engineer/Threat Researcher position will be part of Aruba Threat Labs, an internal product security group focused on researching and improving the security of HPE Aruba Networking’s products, the company’s secure development practices, and the company’s vulnerability disclosure processes. Based in the Office of the CTO, the Senior Security Engineer/Threat Researcher will have responsibility across Aruba’s entire product portfolio, including LAN switching, Wi-Fi, Network Access Control, cloud, and security monitoring solutions.

Specific responsibilities will include:

• Conduct advanced security assessments of HPE Aruba networking products, including manual code reviews and penetration testing, to uncover vulnerabilities such as memory-unsafe errors, insecure deserialization, and authentication/authorization flaws.

• Develop proofs of concept (PoCs) to demonstrate the exploitability of identified vulnerabilities and provide actionable remediation guidance to engineering teams when requested.

• Develop and maintain custom tools to assist in vulnerability discovery, exploit development, and tracking and disclosure of vulnerabilities to the public.

• Assist in managing Aruba’s bug bounty program, collaborating with external researchers and product engineering teams to triage, reproduce, and remediate reported vulnerabilities.

• Assist in writing vulnerability disclosure bulletins and managing the process of releasing those bulletins to the public

• Serve as a subject-matter expert on secure coding practices, particularly in memory-safe and memory-unsafe programming languages, and evangelize these practices across product engineering teams.

• Conduct original security research on non-Aruba products and technologies, including discovering new vulnerabilities, publishing papers, and presenting at leading security conferences.

• Positively represent Aruba in the global security community by fostering collaboration with security researchers while balancing the goals of researchers with the needs of our customers.

Requirements:

• B.S. or M.S. in software engineering, computer science, cybersecurity, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• 7+ years of professional experience in software engineering, vulnerability research, penetration testing, or a related security discipline. Exceptional candidates with less experience but a strong track record of vulnerability discovery will also be considered.

• Programming experience in C and at least one additional language used for secure software development, such as Rust, Go, or Python.

• Hands-on experience with security testing tools and techniques, such as fuzzing, reverse engineering, and exploit development frameworks (e.g., Metasploit, Immunity Debugger, Ghidra, or IDA Pro).

• Understanding of memory-unsafe vulnerabilities, including buffer overflows, use-after-free, integer overflows, and format string vulnerabilities, as well as mitigation techniques such as ASLR, DEP, and stack canaries

• Strong knowledge of web application security, including OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities such as XSS, SQL injection, XXE, CSRF, and insecure deserialization.

• Familiarity with secure coding practices, threat modeling, and static and dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST) tools.

• Knowledge of modern cryptographic algorithms and security protocols (e.g., TLS, IPsec, OAuth) and their implementation pitfalls.

• Demonstrated ability to analyze, exploit, and remediate security vulnerabilities in complex codebases.

• Knowledge of modern cryptographic algorithms and security protocols (e.g., TLS, IPsec, OAuth) and their implementation pitfalls.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to creat