Senior Security Engineer
Company: FusionAuth
Location: Denver
Posted on: March 4, 2025
Job Description:
Location: Denver, CO (Hybrid)About FusionAuthFusionAuth is a
fast-growing startup and leading provider of customer identity and
access management (CIAM) software headquartered in Denver,
Colorado. Our mission is to make authentication and authorization
simple and secure for every developer. Our product helps businesses
securely manage customer identities and access, ensuring a seamless
and safe user experience for some of the largest brands in the
world. We are committed to delivering exceptional value and
satisfaction to our clients through top-notch service and support.
With a great team and strong investors, we are expanding our team
to help accelerate our growth and take FusionAuth to the next
level.Job SummaryWe are recruiting a Senior Security Engineer with
a strong focus on application security to join our engineering
team. In this role, you will play a critical part in not only
building new features and extending existing ones but also ensuring
that our applications meet stringent security standards. You'll
engage with customers to gather feedback for continuous product
improvement and contribute to our growing developer community. To
succeed, you should be a creative and quantitative thinker, highly
knowledgeable in secure coding practices, and passionate about
authentication, authorization, and user management. Experience in
security-focused roles or practices-such as penetration testing
(PEN testing), bug bounties, or similar-will be highly valued. This
position is based in the Denver area and reports to the VP of
Product Delivery.Responsibilities
- Develop high-quality, performant, and secure code to safeguard
our applications and user data.
- Write and maintain extensive, security-focused tests, including
unit, integration, and vulnerability tests.
- Design and implement new features with an emphasis on secure
coding practices and risk mitigation.
- Maintain our software with bug fixes, enhancements, and
security patches.
- Produce clear, high-quality documentation for new features and
security protocols.
- Contribute to platform roadmap planning and software
architecture with an application security perspective.
- Rotate as the on-call engineer to resolve critical issues,
ensuring both functionality and security for customer issues.
- Provide technical support to customers, including
security-related troubleshooting.
- Advocate for best practices in security within the Engineering
organization.
- Participate in threat modeling, code reviews, and security
audits to strengthen our applications against
vulnerabilities.Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional software development experience with
a significant focus on application security.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical
experience with a strong understanding of secure software
development principles.
- Proven experience in roles with security responsibilities, such
as PEN testing, bug bounties, or similar security assessments.
- Highly proficient in object-oriented design and implementation
with a secure development mindset.
- Strong understanding of the full web stack, including HTTP,
TCP/IP, and REST, with an awareness of potential vulnerabilities in
these areas.
- Experience building highly available, high-performance,
scalable, and secure applications.
- Expertise in developing multi-threaded, API-first applications
with secure data handling practices.
- In-depth knowledge of unit, integration, and vulnerability
testing to ensure the robustness of our applications.
- Strong knowledge of databases, data modeling, and performance
tuning, including secure data management.
- Experience across the stack, from cloud infrastructure to
front-end security practices.All About YouWe believe the following
qualities will enhance your success in this role:
- You are analytical and data-driven, using metrics to understand
and mitigate security risks.
- You have an interest in the authentication and authorization
space, with a focus on security.
- You bring a strong yet flexible approach to security, ready to
adapt as the landscape changes.
- You quickly learn new technologies and security practices.
- You're excited about contributing to our open-source projects
and building a secure ecosystem.
- You thrive in a startup environment and bring a proactive,
security-focused mindset to your work.Compensation
- $140k to $200k expected base salary range*
- Pursuant to various state laws, we must display the pay range
for this job. Since we are willing to hire within a broad spectrum
of qualifications, we also reflect a broad pay range. The expected
base salary range that we are targeting for this position can be
adjusted up or down based on individual qualifications. Individual
salary is determined by qualifications, role, level and
location.BenefitsBenefits for full-time team members include:
- Comprehensive medical, dental & vision plans
- 401k with employer match
- Flexible spending account (FSA)
- Paid holidays & flexible paid time off (PTO)
- Professional growth & development opportunitiesIf you are
passionate about technology that solves real-world customer
problems, and want to join a company that is moving the industry
forward, FusionAuth is a perfect fit for you!Note: Applicants must
be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to
sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this
time.FusionAuth provides equal employment opportunities to all
employees and applicants for employment and prohibits
discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race,
color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status,
genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by
federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and
conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement,
promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of
absence, compensation and training.
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