Senior Staff Application Security Engineer

Agoda

Our Purpose Bridging the World Through Travel

We believe travel allows people to enjoy, learn and experience more of the amazing world we live in. It brings individuals and cultures closer together, fostering empathy, understanding and happiness.

We are a skillful, driven and diverse team from across the globe, united by a passion to make an impact. Harnessing our innovative technologies and strong partnerships, we aim to make travel easy and rewarding for everyone.

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The Security Department oversees security, compliance, GRC, and security operations for all Agoda. We are vigilant in ensuring there is no breach or vulnerability threatening our company or endangering our employees in order to keep Agoda safe and protected. This would be a great challenge for those who want to work with the best technology in a dynamic and advanced environment.

The Opportunity/Role Summary:

• Conduct application security reviews and perform penetration testing, ensuring alignment with compliance standards
• Engage in projects, research, and security tool development to enhance security measures and meet compliance requirements
• Scale security processes using automation
• Provide training, outreach, and develop documentation to guide security practices among internal teams
• Offer technical guidance, advocate for automation, evaluate designs, and lead our security teams to empower engineering partners with cutting-edge tools, techniques, and methodologies to naturally build secure products
  
  

What you ll Need to Succeed/Role Requirements:

• Strong foundations in secure design reviews, threat modeling experience, code reviews, pen-testing
• Minimum of 3 **years of technical experience** with any combination of the following: **threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security.**
• Minimum 2 years experience with Software Development Life Cycle in one or more languages (**Go, Python, Nodejs, Rust, etc.**)
• Experience with public/private cloud environments (**Openshift, Rancher, K8s, AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.**)
• In-depth knowledge of security principles, compliance regulations, and change management
• Experience in running assessments using OWASP MASVS and ASVS
• Working knowledge on exploiting and fixing application vulnerabilities
• Proven expertise in architectural threat modeling and conducting secure design reviews
• In-depth knowledge of common web application vulnerabilities (i.e. OWASP Top 10 or SANS top 25)
• Familiarity with automated dynamic scanners, fuzzers, and proxy tools
• An analytical mind for problem solving, abstract thought, and offensive security tactics
• Highly effective communication skills, in both verbal and written forms, to effectively convey technical and non-technical concepts to a wide variety of audiences
• Exposure to advanced AI and Large Language Model (LLM) security
• Relocation package is provided in case you prefer to relocate to Bangkok, Thailand. Our benefits are
• Hybrid Working Model
• WFH Set Up Allowance
• 30 Days of Remote Working from anywhere globally every year
• Employee discount for accommodation globally
• Global team of 90+ nationalities
• 40+ offices and 25+ countries
• Annual CSR / Volunteer Time off
• Benevity Subscription for employee donations
• Volunteering opportunities globally
• Free Headspace subscription
• Free Odilo & Udemy subscriptions
• Access to Employee Assistance Program (third party for personal and workplace support)
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Life, TPD & Accident Insurance