Golang Job: Senior-Lead-Staff - Software Engineer - Product Se

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Slack enables people around the world to communicate and collaborate together, from the world’s largest public companies to the smallest of startups. We take performance and reliability very seriously. A taste of our scale:

• During the week, our users spend over a billion minutes a day active in our product.

• At peak usage, a million messages a minute passed through Slack.

• Every day we see over 15 million simultaneously connected users

• For millions of people, Slack is their primary communication tool for work and more and they expect it to be exceptionally reliable and fast year-round.

About Us

Our Product Security Team supports the following tenet of Slack’s mission: make people’s working lives more secure. We’re serious about protecting our infrastructure, operations, and most importantly our customers’ data. We take a systemic approach to security and strive to ensure we provide low friction, high impact security across everything we do. As a member of the Product Security team, you care about shipping secure products and protecting Slack’s users from bad actors. You are passionate about enabling our developers to deliver new features securely.

What you will be doing:

• Contributing security-focused feedback to engineers during all phases of the development lifecycle

• Performing technical security assessments on our web applications, native clients, internal services, and partner applications

• Seeking out opportunities to automate processes when appropriate

• Scaling the impact of our team through direct mentorship of our more junior team members

• Communicating risks to engineering staff through training and technical demonstration of vulnerabilities and secure design patterns

• Maintaining and creating secure development practices and programs for our engineering teams and external developers

• Acting as an ambassador for security within Slack

• Serving as a public representative for security at Slack by engaging periodically in internal and external speaking engagements

• Identifying emerging classes of vulnerabilities and developing solutions for them before they’re a problem

• Efficiently scoping blackbox, whitebox, and graybox assessments to optimize security review time and resources

What you need to succeed:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

• 5 + years experience in security testing of web applications and native apps with strong coding skills

• Deep understanding of web application architecture and design principles

• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate with empathy when delivering constructive feedback regarding security matters to engineers and product designers

• Experience with the FedRAMP significant change request process

• Experience with manual secure code review in languages such as: Golang, JavaScript, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP,

• Familiarity with common web application testing tools for DAST, SAST, and IAST analysis such as Burp Suite, Checkmarx, Veracode

• Knowledge of authentication mechanisms like SAML, OAuth, etc.

• Knowledge of common security flaws and resolution as published by OWASP, SANS, etc.

• Knowledge of how to test code and applications across various platforms (iOS, Mac, Linux, Windows, Android, etc) for security and quality

• Ability to see patterns, commonalities and investigate complex issues

• Organizational skills to bring together and record detailed and accurate information about bugs and systemic issues

• Experience with Amazon AWS services and familiarity with Slack products is a plus

• A strong interest to learn information and computer security and related specialties

• Knowledge of how to test code and applications across various platforms (iOS, Mac, Linux, Windows, Android, etc)

• Current or former security training or certifications such as SANS GWAPT or similar is a plus

• Public speaking engagements or published research is also a plus; a successful engineer in this role will be expected to represent Slack externally from time to time

• Though this is not primarily a development role, some background in software engineering in a collaborative and dynamic environment is a plus

Slack is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participant in the U.S. Federal E-Verify program. Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. Slack will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Slack is registered as an employer in many, but not all, states. If you are not located in or able to work from a state where Slack is registered, you will not be eligible for employment.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Salesforce will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

For Colorado-based roles: Minimum annual salary of $158,000. You may also be offered a bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.

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