PayPal Application Security Engineer 

France, Occitania, Toulouse 

738035702

Essential Responsibilities:

• Independently apply security best practices to enhance and optimize systems, ensuring robust protection and efficiency, while beginning to understand and align security solutions with business objectives.
• Partner with peers and internal teams to drive security initiatives, contribute to cross-functional projects, and at times co-lead efforts to strengthen security posture.
• Analyze and resolve security challenges by adapting standard processes and exploring alternative approaches to address complex threats.
• Influence the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the team through informed decision-making, with a potential impact on other teams.
• Collaborate with other engineers to gather and incorporate feedback, driving continuous improvements in security processes.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Your way to

You are curious about trends in the vulnerability data and propose steps to in the largest risk reduction. You takeresources and develop cross functional action plans

Your day to day:

Responsibilities will be tailored based on business need, experience, and interest. In your day-to-day role, you will:

• You help drive the operational workflow around application security vulnerabilities

• determinethe impact of vulnerabilities in our environment and communicate them to stakeholders across the company

• You will report to the Senior Manager, Threat Exposure Management and provide updates on critical vulnerabilities and overall posture

• You love to play detective and find patterns in thedata pointing to root causes that unlock mitigation opportunities

• identify,driveand implement process improvements to reduce the time to detect and mitigate vulnerabilities and increase overall efficiency

• You will work with our internal and external service providers/vendors to resolve blockers andmaintainhigh quality service

• will bework with TEM/Product Security leadership tomaintaintheforward lookingroadmap for the team, including defining and monitoring performance against Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), planning for new capabilities, evaluating vendors, and individual career development plans

• You have and encourage a passion for cybersecurity and learning through asking questions and experimenting with different approaches

• Provide consulting and advisement to software engineers on best practices, secure coding techniques, and vulnerability remediation

• Document and automate vulnerability management runbooks

• Stay up to date with the latest security trends, technologies, vulnerabilities, and attacks, and incorporate this knowledge intoyourday to day

What you need to bring:

• At least 5 years of experience in an application security or software development discipline; 2+ years doing this at large enterprise scale

• Strong programming experience in at least one language such as Ruby, Java, Python, JavaScript, Swift.

• Experience with interpreting the results of vulnerability scanning tools: SAST, API security scanners, software composition analysis

• Experience working with developers to communicate deficiencies and implement security measures.

• Experience inidentifyingand remediating common application security vulnerabilities such as OWASP Top 10 and a deep understanding of web application and mobile app vulnerabilities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• Experience with implementing and configuring vulnerability managementplatforms/applicationsecurity posture management platforms (for example,Seemplicity, Kenna,Brinqa, Vulcan,ArmorCode)

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Familiarity with relevant financial services regulations and security standards, such as PCI-DSS and ISO27001

• operatein fast-paced environment, in a self-driven manner, taking initiative and ownership to propose improvements and solutions

• Demonstrate attention to detail, excellent analytical thinking,communicationand time management skills

• in working with large data sets todeterminepatterns and drive to key takeaways

• Ability to mentor and guide junior team members.

• Experience with at least one of the main cloud vendors is a plus (Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)

• Industry certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CCSP,CSSLPor equivalent)are a plus

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $123,500 to $212,850

Our Benefits:

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us

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