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Paranoids Application Security Engineer - Bug Bounty
Yahoo!
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Description
Yahoo is a guide focused on making users' daily habits inspiring and entertaining. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. In turn, we create value for advertisers by connecting them with the audiences that build their businesses.
A Little About Us
When you impact as many people online as Yahoo does, you also become a target for other people who want to adversely impact those people. The team's vision is to protect and defend infrastructure at Yahoo from threats around the world. We make sure Yahoo is a safe and secure place for employees and customers alike to interact and know that we can be trusted with their information.
A Lot About You
The Paranoids seek a security engineer who will defend Yahoo Infrastructure and drive innovative solutions to global security challenges.
Your Day
• Review, verify, and triage incoming Bug Bounty submissions
• Work with product teams to review security during the implementation process to provide guidance on effective countermeasures Provide subject matter expertise on encryption, security controls, and secure programming practices across Yahoo
• Contribute to security policy, standards, and guidelines related to Information Security
• Evaluate new technologies for securing the organization
What You Bring
• Ability to engage with teams to review application architectures and recommend secure designs for a fast paced, engineering-driven environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for conveying security concepts and engineering solutions
• Understanding of network fundamentals and protocols such as IP, TCP, UDP, TLS
• Knowledge of web security vulns and countermeasures, including the OWASP Top 10
• Experience with application programming
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/EE or related area (Master’s preferred)
Preferred
• Programming experience with JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Java, or C/C++
• Administrative background with Linux, Apache
This role can be based in Sunnyvale or Los Angeles, CA