Senior Software Security Engineer

Job Description

Position Description

As a Senior Software Engineer focused on Security for Rockwell Automation products, you will have the opportunity to design and develop industry-leading commercial software known for its innovation and usability. With an emphasis on security, this position focuses on ensuring product software is developed employing best practices for secure design and coding.

A primary responsibility of this position is to design, implement, and test timely security-related software features and solutions for our customers while playing an active role in all aspects of agile development. This position will allow you to collaborate with multiple global cross-functional teams and may also provide an opportunity to be the technical lead of an agile development team.

When you join our software team, you become part of a group that believes in knowledge sharing and collaboration, and is committed to using reliable and well-thought-out engineering practices and technologies to overcome any challenges.

We are looking for someone who can effectively leverage a diverse set of technical backgrounds and opinions by fostering a team-oriented environment using open and direct communications, honesty, and respect. The ideal candidate will also actively learn about new developments in the software engineering and cyber security fields and will identify and pursue career development and training opportunities.

Essential Functions

• Participates in design and development of security functionality that resides within the product
• Applies secure code design and development best practices to the product
• Participates in the education of peers on security issues and best practices
• Participates in the evolution of security standards for software development
• Leads or participates in reviews of documents, designs, code, test cases and user documentation
• Determines the origin and root cause of identified anomalies
• Takes the lead on identifying and recommending software development capability improvements in the areas of security, software development practices, and development tools
• Thinks outside the box and is willing to research and explore new avenues to overcome obstacles by utilizing the latest technologies and standards
• Clearly communicates and conveys design concepts, both verbally and in writing
• Able to learn and understand complex control system concepts

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• Typically requires a minimum of five years of experience in a software product development environment
• Familiarity with cryptography and security protocols
• Understanding of basic software vulnerabilities and mitigations
• Familiarity with and ability to provide guidance to teams during threat modeling exercises
• Direct experience applying security to web technologies as a developer
• One or more security certifications
• Maintains a strong knowledge of secure development practices
• Experience in large, scalable distributed systems and/or SaaS solutions
• Software development on Cloud and Mobile platforms
• Able to apply object-oriented designs using C++, C#, Java, or other relevant programming languages
• Proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, Angular framework, GraphQL
• Software development on both Windows and Linux
• Proven application of data structures and algorithms
• Basic understanding of design patterns
• Direct experience with the Industrial Automation industry
• Basic understanding of architecting modular software
• Desire to learn and keep up to date with latest security technologies and threats
• Direct experience collaborating with local and global technical development teams
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor.

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation

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