Product Security Engineer - Web Applications

Product Security Engineer

• Web Applications

Job Description

Overview

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world's real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We've continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

CoStar builds and operates web applications related to real estate. Web applications include Apartments.com, Homes.com, Lands.com, CoStar.com, and 75 other web applications. CoStar has solid security tooling integrated into our hosting platform and CI/CD environments as a result of strong DevSecOps engineering. We're looking to build out new product security roles and teams to drive greater security within our products - all by design.

This position is located in Washington, DC or Richmond, VA and offers a hybrid schedule of 3 days onsite, 2 days remote.

Responsibilities

• Security minded experienced developer to author secure code guidelines, develop reusable secure code modules and templates, review sensitive code modules, and serve as a security SME consultant during product design and development.

• Embedded security minded developer(s) to become an expert on how to consume all of our centralized security controls and apply them within a focused set of related web applications built by a common software development team. These positions are matrixed between product security and product development.

• Threat modeling evangelist to refine our threat modeling process and tooling, train our engineering group on threat modeling, and lead threat modeling sessions for significant and sensitive headlining development projects

• Web application penetration testers join our in-house web pen testing team and pen test a wide range of web applications and their underlying cloud/web architectures and platforms. Operate and refine our automated, continual application and attack surface management pen testing systems.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required from an accredited, not for profit university or college (preferably in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or a related field)

• A track record of commitment to prior employers

• Minimum 3 years total experience in a technical role such as software engineer or security engineer with at least 2 years as a software developer.

• Design, implementation, and operation of a secure software development lifecycle

• Experience with web application penetration testing and common attack vectors

• Experience with secure application development

• Experience with defense-in-depth strategies to help mitigate existing risk within applications

• Software development experience in a common programming language: C#, .NET Framework, Node, Web API

• Scripting experience

• Python, PowerShell, GoLang, JavaScript, Terraform

• Security tooling automation in CI/CD pipelines and IDE interfaces

• Application security testing (DAST) through Metasploit, Burpsuite, OWASP ZAP, Acunetix, etc.

• Secure API development or management

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Strong communication skills with both software development and software leadership audiences

• In-depth understanding of various assessment tools

• Knowledge of infrastructure operations across databases, network, and system administration

• Ability to communicate with different levels of leadership conveying risk and driving urgency for risk remediation.

• Experience coordinating with application teams to drive security by design principles

• Ability to mentor and train team members to prioritize security efforts effectively

• A self-starter who can advance the application security program and follow-through ideas to completion.

• Hands-on experience implementing security tools into CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience testing serverless cloud deployments

What's in it for You

When you join CoStar Group, you'll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.

We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug

• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance

• Virtual and in person mental health counseling services for individuals and family

• Commuter and parking benefits

• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions

• Employee stock purchase plan

• Paid time off

• Tuition reimbursement

• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes

• Access to CoStar Group's Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups

• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full-time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing