Product Security Analyst

Skills
Application SecurityData PrivacyEthical HackingIncident ResponseIntellectualOWASPSecurity Testing
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • Proven experience with vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty
  • Hands-on experience doing security testing or ethical hacking on web and mobile applications
  • Strong technical knowledge of OWASP top 10
  • Comfortable using security testing tools including Burpsuite
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience using frameworks such as CVSS
  • Self-motivated and able to manage your time and energy output while maintaining a consistent and sustainable operational rhythm
  • English fluency
  • This role works on a weekday schedule from Monday-Friday
  • Must be based remotely in US or Canada

Nice to have

  • Security experience
  • Communication skills
  • Technical aptitude
  • Time management
  • Remote work skills

Day to day

  • Evaluate assigned vulnerability reports submitted by hackers to determine the validity, risk and severity to HackerOne customers
  • Collaborate with hackers to address missing information from reports as well as educate the HackerOne community members when reports are invalid
  • Compose a technical summary for each valid report that includes clear and concise details regarding the impact, steps to reproduce and remediation advice
  • Ensure clear and efficient communication between hackers and customers
  • Proactively identify and solve issues, as well as accept and quickly respond to delegated work; as we are distributed, being able to win as a team to solve problems is critical to our success
  • Assess vulnerability findings and determine whether the submission is valid based on program policies, scope and impact
  • Independently reproduce reported vulnerabilities in a test environment and compose a technical summary for valid findings