Staff Software Engineer - Security

Company Description
It all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today - ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500®. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.
Job Description
Team
Product Security is shifting everywhere and holistically improving the maturity of the security program. The Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDL) team helps the organisation measure and improve security activities. The team leads product threat modelling, helps to improve security behaviours, and manages a highly visible security champions program. The team is both highly technical and strategic.
Role
As a Staff Software Engineer - Product Security Product Security Engineer on the ServiceNow SSDL team, you will collaborate with developers and software architects on highly technical solutions and help the organisation build secure and resilient software. You will be threat modelling software products and services to identify potential risks and participate in architectural reviews of products in development.
A key part of this position is to ensure the continued success of a large and growing security champions program. You will help mentor security champions and assist them in secure software design. As a Staff Product Security Engineer, you will help security champions be successful.
What you get to do in this role:

• Work on a wide range of technologies
• Work on complex architectural and technical challenges
• Participate in threat modelling activities
• Mentor and collaborate with development teams to adopt secure coding practices
• Work on strategic and highly visible security activities across the organisation
• Be an advocate for security and participate in a security champions program

Qualifications
To be successful in this role, you have:

• Developer-level proficiency in one or more languages - Python, Java, JavaScript, and Golang preferred
• 6+ years of experience in software security (AppSec)
• 3+ years of experience in threat modelling software applications and services
• Proficient in threat modelling methodologies such as STRIDE or PASTA and their applied use in fast-moving, iterative development lifecycles
• In-depth knowledge of common web application vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10)
• Working knowledge of Machine Learning and taxonomies such as BIML that categorise known attacks on machine learning models
• In-depth knowledge of software design patterns and their security considerations
• In-depth knowledge of authentication and authorisation standards, including OAuth, OIDC, SAML, JWT, and PASETO
• Knowledge of symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, digital signatures, PKI, TLS, and cryptographic hash functions

Additional Information
Work Personas
We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here . To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.
Equal Opportunity Employer
ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.
Accommodations
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