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Security Engineer 5 - Product & Application Security

Atlanta

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management. Half of the Fortune 500 and nearly 70% of the Fortune 100 trust PagerDuty as essential infrastructure.

Join us. At PagerDuty, you'll tackle complex problems, collaborate with kind and ambitious people, and help build a more equitable world—all in a flexible, award-winning workplace.

PagerDuty is seeking a Staff Security Engineer 5 to join our diverse, customer-focused team! As a Staff Security Engineer 5, you will bring your rich technical experience securing applications in a cloud native environment. You will be a part of an amazing team that’s intensely focused on securing our products, improving our security processes, and building the future of security at PagerDuty.

This is an exciting opportunity to build security solutions that make developers and customers happy. The ideal candidate will have a blend of experiences across large enterprise environments and small or mid-size environments and will have focused on establishing security standards, coordinating with product development teams, developing strategies for secure-by-default architectures, and corresponding process and tooling selection and implementation. Things that make you smile: secure product architectures, providing an engaging Developer Experience for security adoption, and cute animal memes.

This role is expected to come into our Atlanta office 1 day/month, so you can thrive in your new role and fully embrace being a Dutonian!

Key Responsibilities

  • Responsible for leading, designing, implementing, and configuring security controls for SaaS applications in a cloud-based infrastructure environment.
  • Lead complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across technical, solutions, and business, and collaborate across the broader engineering organization.
  • Identify threats and vulnerabilities, security gaps, and recommend enhancements and changes to increase product and infrastructure security posture.
  • Support security operations to provide the protection of the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of customer data and building/maintaining customer trust.
  • Partner with product/engineering, corporate operations, and employees to build and maintain a security-aware culture where everyone understands and plays their part
  • Provide thought leadership on modern security operations and help lead our infrastructure security organization in creating trust through security.
  • Participating in our team’s on-call rotation, triaging and addressing security issues as they arise.
  • Mentor and grow application security engineers. 
  • You have a desire to stay ahead of the latest industry trends and technologies, a track record of sharing contributions to the wider security engineering community and a commitment to continuous learning.
  • You believe security should make it easy to do the right thing.
  • You are an expert at leading collaborative efforts involving large groups. 
  • Expert at building consensus within and across engineering teams.

  Minimum Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in infrastructure securing infrastructure, securing infrastructure including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, including network security.
  • 5+ years experience with cloud-native security experience, cloud-native based application security best practices.
  • Experience with Linux operating systems, scripting languages such as Python, configuration languages like YAML, JSON and technologies such as Terraform and/or Cloudformation, configuration tools such as Chef or Ansible.
  • Experience with AWS cloud security best practices, and AWS security technologies such as AWS IAM, AWS Organizations, AWS Shield, AWS GuardDuty.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • The ability to compress intricate security challenges into concise descriptions.
  • The ability to solve security problems without saying "No".
  • You have a track record of stepping up and leading successful security engineering projects.
  • Past experience with application security, security testing, code reviews and identity and access management
  • Past experience with threat analysis, threat hunting, proactive security practices
  • Prior experience with Application Security, Secure SDL for cloud native services.
  • Experience with containerized applications, and technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience working in a continuous delivery/continuous deployment environment.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Certifications such as AWS Security Speciality, (ISC)2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), (ISC)2 CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional).

The base salary range for this position is 192,000 - 319,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, commission, equity, and/or benefits.

Our base salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range, which is subject to change based on primary work location, reflects the minimum and maximum base salary we expect to pay newly hired employees for the position. Within the range, we determine pay for an individual based on a number of factors including market location, job-related knowledge, skills/competencies and experience.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific offerings for this role, as well as the salary range for your primary work location during the hiring process.

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Where we work

PagerDuty currently has offices in Atlanta, Lisbon, London, San Francisco, Santiago, Sydney, Tokyo, and Toronto. We offer a hybrid, flexible environment. We also provide ample opportunities for connection, like team offsites and volunteering events.

How we work

Our values guide how we support customers, collaborate with colleagues, develop products, and foster a culture of belonging. They define not just our actions, but what it means to be Dutonian.

What we offer

As a global organization, our total rewards approach is competitive with industry standards and aligned with local laws and regulations. Learn more, including country-specific offerings, on our benefits site.

Your package may include:

- Competitive salary

- Comprehensive benefits package from day one

- Flexible work arrangements

- Company equity*

- ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Program)*

- Retirement or pension plan*

- Generous paid vacation time

- Paid holidays and sick leave

- Dutonian Wellness Days & HibernationDuty - companywide paid days off in addition to PTO

- Paid parental leave: 22 weeks for pregnant parent, 12 weeks for non-pregnant parent (some countries have longer leave standards and we comply with local laws)*

- Paid volunteer time off: 20 hours per year

- Company-wide hack weeks

- Mental wellness programs

*Eligibility may vary by role, region, and tenure

 

About PagerDuty

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management, enabling customers to achieve operational efficiency at scale with the PagerDuty Operations Cloud. The PagerDuty Operations Cloud combines AIOps, Automation, Customer Service Operations and Incident Management with a powerful generative AI assistant to create a flexible, resilient and scalable platform to increase innovation velocity, grow revenue, reduce cost, and mitigate the risk of operational failure. Half of the Fortune 500 and nearly 70% of the Fortune 100 rely on PagerDuty as essential infrastructure for the modern enterprise.

PagerDuty is Great Place to Work-certified™, a Fortune Best Workplace for Millennials, a Fortune Best Medium Workplace, a Fortune Best Workplace in Technology, and a top rated product on TrustRadius and G2. 

Go behind-the-scenes on our careers site and @pagerduty on Instagram.

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