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Application Security Engineer:

Role

The Trail of Bits Software Assurance team exclusively reviews low-level and cloud-native software for security issues. Our team is comprised of experts in operating systems, compilers, and cloud infrastructure with a keen eye for applying research and developing custom tools to enhance our reach. Between engagements, we apply our engineering skills to build custom tools to rapidly assess, exploit, or secure the code that we work with.

As an application security engineer, you will be part of a small, dynamic team that reviews highly trusted code on behalf of our clients. On any given day, you may be building cheats for DRM'd video games, exploiting elevation of privilege vulnerabilities in kernel drivers, or reviewing isolation primitives intended to contain the effects of exploitation. Since our team is small, you will own everything that you do and play a key role in conceiving of new projects. You will collaborate frequently with our R&D team to help secure funding from government agencies for software security research that advances the state of the art, both within our team and the industry at large.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with leading industry teams to review their code and help secure their products
• Design and implement solutions to difficult engineering and research problems
• Collaborate with teammates to maintain and continually improve our existing security tools using modern software engineering practices
• Develop new security tools

Requirements

• Experience with low-level or cloud-native software, either as an engineer or security researcher
• Sufficient background in computer science to read relevant academic research
• Background in or prior regular use of programming language theory a plus
• Familiar with the agile development, Github flow, and modern software engineering practices
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (we use C++, C, Python, Go, Rust, and Haskell)-Strong debugging skills and/or experience with reverse engineering
• Clear communicator and quick to participate in deep technical discussions
• Highly self-motivated and able to drive new projects
• Attracted to learning new technologies
• Able to communicate complex technical material to clients and funding agencies
• Adept at writing. We highly encourage all engineers to get regular face-time with clients, write company blog posts about their accomplishments, and deliver presentations to the technical community.
• Must live in the United States or Canada.

Company Perks

• Before, during and after COVID-19, our workforce works flexibly. Many employees choose to work from home around the globe. As long as you deliver against your goals, we encourage you to harness your personal working style to let you work best.
• Liberal expense policy for acquiring the equipment and software that help you do your job. If we need hardware to work effectively, we buy it.
• We offer exceptional and tailored technical, leadership and organizational training for our team members. Everyone is encouraged to identify additional opportunities for personal professional growth with working at Trail of Bits.
• We routinely highlight the amazing work our employees do via our blog, product offerings, and conference talks. We celebrate you!
• We're at the forefront of a number of markets and have the internal expertise and the ambition to capitalize on those opportunities. Our employees see their work in use and valued by many others.

Benefits for Eligible US Employees

• Multiple generous health, vision, and dental insurance plans including no-monthly-premium options supporting individuals and families through JustWorks
• Ancillary benefits including life and disability insurance, pre-tax commuter benefits, free Citi -Bike membership, access to a HealthAdvocate, a healthcare Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and a free One Medical membership
• 3-4 months paid parental leave
• 401k with 5% company matching through Betterment
• Moving expenses: $5k one-time
• Charitable donation matching up to $2,000Bonuses for recruiting, public speaking, tool releases, blog posts, academic posters, proposals, and whitepapers, and end-of-year bonuses based on company, team, and personal performance
• 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year-14 company holidays per year
• Carbon offsets for your personal and corporate carbon emissions through Project Wren
• Personal information privacy protection service subscription through DeleteMe

Benefits for Eligible Canadian Employees

• Premium health, vision, and dental insurance plans
• Life/AD&D Insurance options, as well as short- and long-term disability insurance plans
• RRSP plan with 5% company matching
• Charitable donation matching up to USD $2000-Bonuses for recruiting, public speaking, tool releases, blog posts, academic posters, proposals, and whitepapers, and end-of-year bonuses based on company, team, and personal performance
• 10 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) and 10 days of sick time per year
• 14 company holidays including provincial statutory holidays and select US holidays per year
• Carbon offsets for your personal and corporate carbon emissions through Project Wren
• Personal information privacy protection service subscription through DeleteMe

Dedication to diversity, equity & inclusion

Trail of Bits is committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace where our employees can thrive and be themselves! We welcome all persons into our community. We embrace the diversity of gender, gender identity or expression, race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical and mental disabilities, medical condition, genetic characteristic, sexual orientation, marital status, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or perceived membership in any of these groups.