Application Security Engineer, Benchling
$162.3-219.5k
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
Job no longer available
Cloud-based platform for biotech R&D
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$162.3-219.5k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of biotechnology.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years work experience in an application security or product security role including experience with secure code reviews, threat modeling, pentesting, application security tooling and automation
- Strong communicator with the ability to translate technical security requirements and risks into terms that anyone can understand
- In-depth experience finding AND fixing web application security vulnerabilities including those found in the OWASP Top 10 and CWE Top 25
- Relevant development experience in multiple programming languages, preferably: Python, Javascript/Typescript, PHP, Java, Laravel
- Strong, general knowledge of the browser security model, modern network security, and cloud (AWS ideally) security
- Experience with vulnerability management and risk assessment processes
- Technical leadership skills; you enjoy evangelizing security and privacy
- Comfortable with complexity in the short term but can build towards simplicity in the long term
What the job involves
- As an Application Security Engineer at Benchling you’ll be joining a team responsible for building a best-in-class security program from the ground up.
- Our focus is on providing value to the organization by emphasizing real world security and embracing automation to keep up with the company as we experience growth.
- We’re looking for engineers who are excited to apply their expertise to our mission of securing some of society's most sensitive data
- Partnering with both the Product Design and Software Engineering organization's security and privacy initiatives, leading security design reviews, and threat modeling
- Performing code reviews of our own and partners’ services and apps
- Collaborating with engineers on the best ways to mitigate vulnerabilities and reduce risk
- Participating in our incident response and vulnerability remediation efforts
- Integrating external and internal security tools and automation into development and build environments
- Developing lightweight SDLC processes to embed into Product Design and Software Engineering workflows
- Developing secure coding and design practices and training engineering teams
- Performing black-box and gray-box penetration testing of our applications and services
- Helping to scale our team. As a member of the security team, you'll be an integral part of how we mature our own tooling, best practices, engineering processes, and hiring
Our take
As the pioneer of the R&D Cloud, Benchling offers a cloud-based informatics platform tailored for biotechnology. Its platform enables scientists across the globe to make breakthrough discoveries and bring next-gen biotechnology to market.
There’s a sincerity and consciousness to Benchling’s approach that stands out. This has led to the company being adopted by over 200,000 scientists from 1,000+ companies and 7,500 academic and research institutions globally (including 23andMe, Moderna, and the U.S. Department of Defense).
The rapidly advancing Biotechnology industry was at the forefront of the so-called “fourth industrial revolution”, with the industry driving $2 to $4 trillion per year of economic impact over the next 20 years.
Benchling has put itself in a position of immense value within the industry with its expanding offerings. And now, off the back of over $400 million in total funding, the company is seeing accelerated growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES F
Apr 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Total funding: $411.2m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Robust healthcare benefits
- Family-forming benefits
- Four months of fully paid parental leave
- Retirement benefits
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sajith Wickramasekara
(Co-Founder & CEO)Sajith studied at MIT before spending 2 years as a Research Assistant at Duke University Medical Centre and Liquidia Technologies. They used this biotechnology understanding to found Benchling in June 2012, serving as CEO since.
Ashu Singhal
(Co-Founder & President)They previously co-founded Hotspots.io which was later acquired by Twitter in 2012. After this, became Staff Software Engineer at Twitter for 2 years, leaving to co-found Benchling.
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