Security Engineer

Introduction

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Your Role And Responsibilities

We are looking for a Product Security Engineer to help scale our software supply chain and application security functions, providing innovative solutions across the HashiCorp suite of industry-leading products available as cloud, self-managed, and community offerings.

At HashiCorp, we're on a mission to enable organizations to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application. Our security team plays a critical role in this mission by ensuring the security and integrity of our products throughout their lifecycle.

Security at HashiCorp is a global team, we are looking for team members who perform well given a high level of independence and autonomy while also collaborating effectively across engineering, product, and security teams.

In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Contribute to solutions that secure the software supply chain for HashiCorp products, across our cloud, self-managed, and community product portfolio.
• Monitor supply chain security threats and vulnerabilities impacting HashiCorp products and services, develop mitigations, and assess/communicate associated risks to stakeholders.
• Serve as subject matter expert (SME) on multiple supply chain and application security areas (e.g., ASPM, SCA, SAST, DAST, container security, etc.)
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of security solutions across the product life-cycle, such as standalone security tools, CI/CD pipeline integrations, and vulnerability management systems.
• Research emerging supply chain attack vectors and techniques, helping identify potential threats to HashiCorp's products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement security standards and participate in secure code reviews.
  
  

The product security supply chain and application security team is composed of security engineers working to ensure HashiCorp delivers secure software to its customers. We provide tools and services that support product engineering teams at HashiCorp, embedding security into the development processes. We are primarily responsible for security scanning, secure code review, application security posture management, and contributing to vulnerability management across our entire product portfolio.

This Role Offers Opportunities To

• Work with and learn from experienced security engineers.
• Develop technical expertise across HashiCorp's diverse product portfolio.
• Build relationships with industry peers and contribute to the broader security community.
• Drive initiatives that have significant impact on product security.
  
  

We're looking for a candidate with good written and verbal communication skills, knowledge of supply chain and application security topics, who brings a pragmatic approach to security, and has the ability to empathize with engineers and product managers across the company.

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 5+ years of security experience.
• Experience building or maintaining security automation within CI/CD pipelines; proficient with GitHub Advanced Security and GitHub Actions security considerations.
• Ability to balance security requirements with engineering velocity.
• Practical knowledge of application and infrastructure security testing methodologies and tools (SAST, DAST, SCA, Container security).
• Familiarity with modern engineering practices, processes, and tools, particularly related to the Go programming language and ecosystem.
• Experience with secure development practices and their integration into broader engineering activities.
• Understanding of software supply chain security concepts, such as SBOM generation and vulnerability management best practices.
• Experience working with and supporting product engineering teams in cloud environments.
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Familiarity with container security and Kubernetes or Nomad environments