Application Security Engineer

ROLE OVERVIEW

As an Application Security Engineer at Benchling you’ll be joining a team responsible for maintaining a best-in-class security program. Our focus is on providing value to the organization by emphasizing real world security and embracing automation. We’re looking for engineers who are excited to apply their expertise to our mission of securing some of society's most sensitive data.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Building and integrating external and internal security tools and automation into development and build environments.
• Developing lightweight processes to embed security in the SDLC workflow.
• Collaborating with engineers on the best ways to mitigate vulnerabilities and reduce risk.
• Performing code reviews of our services and apps.
• Partnering with both the Product Design and Software Engineering organization's security and privacy initiatives, leading security design reviews, and threat modeling.
• Participating in our incident response and vulnerability remediation efforts.
• Developing secure coding and design practices and training engineering teams.
• Performing black-box and gray-box penetration testing of our applications and services.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 2+ years work experience in an application security or product security role including experience with secure code reviews, threat modeling, pentesting, application security tooling and automation.
• Strong communicator with the ability to translate technical security requirements and risks into terms that anyone can understand.
• Experience finding AND fixing web application security vulnerabilities including those found in the OWASP Top 10 and CWE Top 25.
• Experience with at least one scripting language, preferably Python
• Knowledge of the browser security model, modern network security, AI and cloud (AWS ideally) security is a plus.
• Experience with vulnerability management and risk assessment processes is a plus.

HOW WE WORK

We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in-office collaboration. Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday).

SALARY RANGE

Benchling takes a market-based approach to pay.  The candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and work location. For this role the base salary range is $147,000 to $200,000

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• Competitive total rewards package
• Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents
• Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
• Four months of fully paid parental leave
• 401(k) + Employer Match
• Commuter benefits for in-office employees and a generous home office set up stipend for remote employees
• Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching, for employees and their dependents
• Monthly Wellness stipend
• Learning and development stipend
• Generous and flexible vacation
• Company-wide Winter holiday shutdown
• Sabbaticals for 5-year and 10-year anniversaries

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