Product Security Engineer

Product Security Engineers are responsible for the end-to-end security of their organization’s software products.

Role overview

Product Security Engineers work closely with software engineering and product teams to achieve product and security business objectives. They support the implementation of secure development practices, threat modeling, architecture, design, vulnerability assessments and security verification, as well as defining the security standards for a variety of products and tools.

Product Security Engineer Job Titles

may also be referred to as:

IOT Product Security Engineer

Platform Product Security Manager

Product Cyber Resilience Engineer

Product Cybersecurity Integration Engineer

Product Manager Cloud Security

Product Manager Network Security

Product Security Analyst

Product Security Architect

Product Security Engineer Intern

Product Security Incident Responder

Product Security Incident Response Manager (PSIRT)

Security Product Owner

Career Path

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Average Salary

Based upon experience, salary for this role ranges from:

$180,000

National Average

$208,333

$241,667

* based upon those with two plus years of cybersecurity experience

Responsibilities

• Providing security guidance on all new products and technologies within the organization.

• Collaborating with the engineering team to perform regular product security assessments and threat modelling.

• Managing the operations and effectiveness of the product security pipeline tools.

• Updating product security tooling to reduce false positives.

• Responding to vulnerabilities disclosed through threat detection systems.

• Maintaining internal documentation and security standards to ensure security best practices are followed.

• Designing and implementing tools to automate and scale security processes.

• Supporting the incident detection and response processes.

• Providing security support and leadership to the product engineering team.

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Tools & Environment

Product Security Engineers work with various development process tools including threat modeling, compliance, test automation, and vulnerability technologies. They also use a variety of operating systems, cloud containers, programming tools, encryption, and security controls for IaaS, PaaS, and Severless systems.

Certifications

Category	Organization	Certification
Product Security	(ISC)2	CSSLP
Product Security	CertNexus	CSC
Product Security	EC-Council	CASE Java
Product Security	EC-Council	CASE .Net
Product Security	EXIN	SP-F
Product Security	GAQM	CSST
Product Security	GAQM	CASST
Product Security	GIAC	GPYC
Product Security	GIAC	GSSP-JAVA
Product Security	GIAC	GSSP-.NET
	Organization