Listing Description

The  Team:

Within our InfoSec organization, Our global security engineering team is responsible for designing, building, and enhancing the underlying security components that help with securing the Celonis Application and Platforms stacks. We think about both offensively and defensively. We continuously monitor our global security posture and are always adapting to the ever-changing threat landscape. The security engineering team is always looking for talented subject matter experts in application, platform and offensive security.

The Role:

Celonis is looking for a Senior Application Security Engineer to help assess and validate that our services, applications, and websites are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. You will be responsible for analyzing the security of applications and services, discovering and addressing security issues, building security automation, and quickly reacting to new threat scenarios. You will have the opportunity to mentor the application security engineers who are building and securing our cutting-edge application layer services.

The work you’ll do:

• You will participate in threat modeling, application architecture review, security code review, security assessment, penetration testing (web application, native application, web services, cloud-based services, and infrastructure assessments).


• Conducting security architecture reviews of the application stack, including applications built on cloud and emerging technologies


• Reviewing source code for potential security issues


• Writing security test cases to check for vulnerabilities or broken/missing security controls


• Providing specific risk assessment and remediation guidelines for developers and business owners


• Researching the latest security best practices, trends, threats and vulnerabilities, and technology frameworks


• Perform in-depth security review of new features. This includes identifying security vulnerabilities (OWASP top ten, common issues in NVD, RCE), reviewing code in Java or C++, verifying security posture through pen-test (using manual/automated techniques with tools like Kali Linux, Burp suite, Checkmarx, WebInspect).


• You will partner with engineering and operation teams to integrate mitigation controls into continuous integration, delivery and deployment processes.


• Work on essential areas to develop security baseline for cloud, container, and application and integrate it into the CI/CD pipeline.


• Implement security architecture, methods, and controls required to meet security, compliance, and audit requirements (NIST controls, SOC2, etc.).


• Own security projects from start to finish


• Act as internal advocate and subject matter expert on secure software development practices.


• Lead secure development awareness communications and training initiatives.

The qualifications you’ll need:

• 4+ years previous experience in information security.


• 3+ years’ experience working within software development.


• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Information Security/Cyber Security or equivalent.


• Excellent written and oral communication skills, as well as social skills including the ability to articulate to both technical and non-technical audiences.


• Able to work both independently as well with development teams and multi-task effectively.


• Firm understanding of enterprise class application architectures that are highly scalable and reliable and the expertise to secure them.


• Experience of security architecture and design reviews.


• Experience with multiple languages such as Java, Go, Python etc. and understand how to detect and remedy related security issues such as OWASP top 10.


• Have led security projects from initial planning to completion