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With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day – we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day.

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About The Role

As an application security engineer at Confluent, you will join a team of security architects and engineers responsible for defining and executing on the security strategy of our product for both on-prem offerings and Cloud services. You will ensure that security is embedded in how we build our products from design and development to testing to how we run them in the cloud, and partner with product and engineering teams to strategically guard against existing or emerging threats.

This position is also responsible for cultivating a culture of security awareness across Eng, Product, and the rest of the organization. You will also be responsible for helping build software automation that supports various security operations. The ideal candidate has deep technical security knowledge and software development expertise that will help define and implement robust security architecture strategies, manage and eradicate systemic classes of security issues and vulnerabilities at scale.

What You Will Do

Drive and influence software security across the organization by partnering with key stakeholders throughout Confluent
Keep up to date with emerging security vulnerability classes, research and perform triage for relevance by performing table top exercises where necessary
Perform security threat modeling and design reviews for providing early secure design guidance to engineers and product managers
Perform product security feature specific implementation reviews (or penetration testing whole applications where applicable), API security testing and code reviews to identify vulnerabilities and provide critical security guidance to engineers
Enhance our security automation, leveraging or building software security tooling to help scale product security operations and support overall vulnerability management practices
Propose, design, build, and deploy security solutions, frameworks, automation, and orchestration to secure cloud applications
Identify opportunities for implementing additional technology controls to build more visibility or defend key points of attack

What You Will Bring

A data-driven, decision-making mindset
4+ years of relevant application security industry experience
Strong knowledge of security fundamentals, especially as they relate to the fields of Web Application Security and Cloud Security primitives
Experience working with common software development stacks and CI/CD systems
Experience reading and writing code for software automation and security test cases (preferably in GoLang, Python, Java)
Experience working with distributed teams and other cross-functional stakeholders
The knowledge, experience, and perspective necessary to own outcomes, influence stakeholders, and provide effective leadership when it comes to keeping our customers and our product safe
Decision-maker with the ability to operate with freedom and autonomy
Ability to own and oversee numerous initiatives, while working collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders, and adjust priorities upon evolving business needs

Come As You Are

At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

At Confluent, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including work history, education, professional experience, and location. This position has an annual estimated salary of $192,200 - $225,810 and a competitive equity package. The actual pay may vary depending on your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Confluent offers a wide range of employee benefits. To learn more about our benefits click HERE (https://confluentbenefits.com/) .

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