Senior Product Security Engineer

• DIdentify, triage, and provide remediation guidance for application vulnerabilities.
• Select, implement, design, or build tools to thwart attacks of all shapes and sizes.
• Improve developer tooling and adoption to build a more robust SSDLC.
• Practice a #OneTeam attitude to help other Toast teams make informed, security-conscious. decisions when building new software.
• Support and expand the Security Champions program, providing edge security guidance and training.
• Assist incident response teams with application security expertise and tools.
• Think like an attacker to identify weaknesses in application architecture.

In addition:

• Support Cloud and Network Infrastructure Engineerings implementation of edge security solutions.
• Influence the implementation and rule maintenance of our WAF strategy and other edge security solutions.
• Advise on WAF rules and policies to protect against common and emerging threats.
• Conduct regular assessments of our edge security posture and recommend improvements.
• Provide expertise on Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and their security features.

Do you have the right

ingredients*

(Requirements)

• 5+ years of experience in application security
• Strong knowledge of common web application vulnerabilities and edge-based attack vectors.
• Proficiency in analyzing web traffic patterns and identifying anomalies.
• Knowledge of compliance standards relevant to the financial industry (e.g., PCI DSS, SOC 2).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think creatively about edge security challenges.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex edge security concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong understanding of cloud application architecture and common weaknesses.

Special Sauce(Nonessential Skills/Nice to Haves)

Experience with:

• Understanding of WAF configuration, tuning, and optimization.
• Popular WAF solutions (e.g., AWS WAF, Cloudflare, Akamai, ModSecurity).
• Familiarity with CDN technologies and their security features.
• Cloud and container security technologies and SSDLC tooling (e.g. SAST/DAST/SCA)
• Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) technologies like Terraform to manage cloud security services
• Securing financial technologies