Information Security Engineer

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The Global Information Security (GIS) Team makes sure that eBay continues to be a safe virtual marketplace. The Application Security Engineering team makes sure all business processes are secured, via optimized process and automation. In collaboration with the product developers, the team hardens eBay’s security through security attack reduction by driving foundational product security fixes.

What you will Accomplish:

We are looking for experienced security developers to join us in the Application Security Engineering team.

You will help develop and support innovative solutions that strengthen the secure DevOps offerings of the security application group. You will complete processes that fine-tune security rules and improve detection and mitigation efficiency. You will provide hands-on engineering support to secure DevOps and ML DevOps automations. You will collaborate with peer InfoSec teams during security incident investigations and reviews, driving the security charter across the organization. Additionally, you will help develop scalable security management tools and test suites that help securely release eBay’s public facing product lines. The ideal candidate person will be a software developer with engineering experience working on Security attack surface reduction through foundational product security fixes.

What you’ll bring:

- BSCS degree with 5-7 years of experience or an MS degree with 3+ years of experience
- Proven hands-on product development experience with web applications is required;

- General understanding of Security in CI/CD process and basic usage of AI tools and terminologies are required

- Strong familiarity with AI/ML, LLM concepts, implementations and their security implications;

- Familiarity with AI developer tools (Copilot, Claude, etc) will be highly advantageous

- Knowledge of integration of security automation solutions with systems like GitHub and Open-Source Security solutions is advantageous

- Strong Programming experience in development of user interface of web-based tools (Node.js, React JS, Angular JS)
- Ability to build automation tools and REST API-s for security processes and web applications on Java (with Spring MVC) and familiarity with databases (Hadoop, noSQL, Oracle, etc) is required. Knowledge of other languages like Python is a plus. Knowledge of GraphQL is a plus
- Ability to deep dive into SAST/DAST/SCA scan data (from security scanning tools like Invicti, Appscan, Checkmarx, semgrep) and logs to analyze for security gaps will be a major plus

- Working experience with product development teams in Agile frameworks in a continuous delivery process is expected.

- Basic understanding of threat modelling, security reviews, security incident troubleshooting would be very beneficial for the day to day tasks

- Familiarity with generation of metrics via real time dashboards and self-healing automated application monitoring. Data analytics experience would be a major plus
- Ability to clearly articulate issues and professionally communicate in an effective manner.
- Ability to identify risk based on context and adjust quickly to the security needs

Additional Details

eBay is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you have a need that requires accommodation, please contact us at talent@ebay.com. We will make every effort to respond to your request for accommodation as soon as possible. View our accessibility statement to learn more about eBay's commitment to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities.

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