Senior Software Security Engineer
Full time
at Contour Software
in
Pakistan
Posted on January 26, 2025
Job details
About Contour
Contour Software has grown from a dozen people to over 2,000 staff across 3 cities, in less than 14 years. As a subsidiary of Constellation Software Inc., we are proud to be part of a global enterprise software conglomerate that has grown to become one of the top 10 software companies in the world, with employees and customers in 100+ countries. With a broad-based and ever-growing portfolio of market-leading, vertical-market enterprise solutions covering more than 100 industry domains in predominantly mature markets, CSI's recipe creates the perfect environment for professionals to build fulfilling, long-term careers. What started as an R&D & Accounting back-office, has progressed into a full-service Global Centre serving all functions and departments, at the divisional as well as operating group/corporate level. Today Contour employees, located in Karachi, Lahore & Islamabad, are serving CSI divisions located in time zones spanning the globe, from Sydney to Vancouver. With the global growth of Constellation as the wind in our sails, we are only just getting started!The Division
BuildTopia, a product division of Constellation Homebuilder Systems, requires a motivated and talented Senior Software Security Engineer to join our development team, at Contour Karachi.The Position
The division is looking for a Senior Software Security Engineer to work as part of its team to be responsible for the development and maintenance of its projects that meet both technical requirements and business objectives.Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Design and build technology to secure our software.
- Work alongside the engineering teams, providing expert leadership and advice on secure cloud architecture, design, and implementation for workloads in AWS and Azure.
- Maintain and uplevel existing Web Applications, Mobile Security and related backend services.
- Provide guidance to engineers across the company, and to ensure best practices are followed in application and mobile security spaces.
- Find and build solutions that can effectively detect, deter, and block bad actors while preserving a frictionless experience for good users.
- Define and enforce security standards, best practices, and policies across the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Review and provide input on system architecture to identify and mitigate security risks early in the design process.
- Lead efforts to identify, track, and remediate security vulnerabilities within applications.
- Assist in the investigation of security incidents related to software applications.
- Develop high-quality code that meets functional requirements, is easy to maintain, and provides a positive user experience.
- Partner with other team members to understand, identify and fix product bugs.
- Perform code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers to maintain code quality standards.
- Conduct risk assessments for software components and third-party libraries.
- Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture, encouraging knowledge sharing, open communication, and continuous learning among team members.
- Work closely with other team members, including product owners, designers, and other developers, to translate project requirements into technical solutions.
- Participate in agile planning and stand-up meetings as necessary.
- Perform other duties as may be assigned by management.
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent technical Degree; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 6+ years of experience in identifying security vulnerabilities, software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection.
- 5+ years of experience in basic security concepts like identity, data protection and monitoring in the cloud services space, Cloud technology.
- 3+ years of experience with security testing tools and techniques, developing and maintaining web applications and relational databases.
- 5+ years of experience with JSON, XML, XSD, and XSL.
- 3+ years of experience with developing and maintaining REST based APIs and GIT.
- 2+ years of experience with HTML, HTML 5, CSS / CSS3, Vue JS/AngularJS.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to develop clear, specific, and contextually relevant prompts for language model libraries.
- Proven expertise in utilizing LLM library features for fine-tuning and optimizing model outputs.
- Skilled in evaluating and refining prompts based on model responses to enhance accuracy and relevance.
- Experience in identifying security vulnerabilities, software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cyber security, and anomaly detection.
- Understands that security work must be prioritized because all teams have finite resources.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug and troubleshoot issues in applications efficiently.
- Strong understanding of core Java concepts, OOP, data structures, and algorithms, unit tests, performing code reviews.
Exciting Benefits we offer:
- Market-leading Salary
- Medical Coverage – Self & Dependents
- Parents Medical Coverage
- Provident Fund
- Employee Performance-based bonuses
- Home Internet Subsidy
- Conveyance Allowance
- Profit Sharing Plan [Tenured Employees Only]
- Life Benefit
- Child Care Facility
- Company Provided Lunch/Dinner
- Professional Development Budget
- Recreational area for in-house games
- Sporadic On-shore training opportunities
- Friendly work environment
- Leave Encashment
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