Sr Product Security Engineer - HashiCorp Security

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

About This Team

The Product Security Platform Partnerships team is composed of security engineers working to ensure HashiCorp delivers secure software to its customers. We work closely with product engineering teams at HashiCorp, enabling them to write secure code and embed security into the development processes. We are responsible for design review, threat modeling, and code review of new features, as well as vulnerability management across our entire product portfolio.

Your Role And Responsibilities

We are looking for a Senior Product Security Engineer to help scale our product security function, partnering closely with Research & Development teams to ensure that security is appropriately addressed across the HashiCorp suite of cloud, self-managed, and community products.

In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Contribute to secure architecture and design of HashiCorp products, across our cloud, self-managed, and community product portfolio.
• Work across various R&D teams to prioritize security features and bugs, and ensure implementation and mitigations.
• Monitor threats and vulnerabilities impacting HashiCorp products and services; triage reported vulnerabilities, identify mitigations and assess/communicate associated risk.
• Act as SME on multiple information security areas (e.g. security architecture, application security, threat modeling etc.).
• Plan & execute security assessments (dynamic testing, static testing, code review, etc) and threat modeling of HashiCorp’s products, services, and associated cloud infrastructure.
• Assist in execution of 3rd-party audits, penetration tests, and bug bounty programs.
• Contribute to the development of security solutions across the product life-cycle, such as standalone security tools, CI/CD pipeline integrations, product security features/fixes, etc.
• Contribute to the creation and delivery of security training.
• Research emerging attack vectors and techniques.
  
  

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 8–10 years of security experience, preferably partnering with product/engineering teams.
• Strong security architecture & design, including threat modeling.
• Deep expertise in cloud security across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP (multi-tenant SaaS/IaaS/PaaS).
• Solid understanding of secure development & operations practices in modern engineering workflows.
• Proficiency in application & infrastructure security testing, vulnerability management, and mitigation.
• Knowledge of identity and authentication management (SSO, SAML, OIDC, SCIM), and cryptography fundamentals.
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Modern engineering practices, processes, and tools, particularly related to the Go programming language and ecosystem.
• Knowledge of application security topics, a pragmatic approach to security, and the ability to empathize with engineers and product managers across the company.