Junior Application Security Engineer

About the Company

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology, and neuroscience—and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

About the Role

Become a key player in our Information Security team as a Junior Application Security Engineer, where you will leverage your expertise in application security, security engineering, and software development to support and enhance our inline code testing and reporting processes. This role involves the implementation and administration of application security tooling, integration into CI/CD pipelines, and providing support for development teams using these products and consuming their findings.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain Application Security Testing (AST) tools (SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA, etc.) to identify code and dependency vulnerabilities during the software development lifecycle.
• Implement and maintain Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) tools to centralize and deduplicate findings from multiple solutions and integrate into software development processes.
• Act as the first line of support for users by helping resolve false positives, providing guidance on finding remediation, and evaluating security exception requests.
• Integrate security tooling with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Develop detailed reports on security findings and remediation efforts.
• Demonstrate high proficiency across a wide range of technologies and platforms related to application security, software design and development, containerization, and cloud environments.
• Communicate security risks and evangelize secure development practices to development teams and their management.
• Understand vulnerabilities, triage security risks at scale in disparate application development environments and business units.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and 5 years' experience; or Master's Degree and 4 years' experience.
• Experience in application security and software development.
• Experience implementing, administering, and supporting application security tooling such as SAST/DAST/IAST/SCA.
• Knowledge of secure coding practices across multiple programming languages (especially Java, Node.js).
• Experience integrating security testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of application security principles along with common vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP Top 10, CWE, etc.) and associated mitigations.
• Experience supporting developers with assessing and mitigating application security test findings.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to function as a principal engineer, generating original technical ideas and strategies.
• Demonstrated creative 'out of the box' thinking to solve difficult technical problems and champion new technologies to achieve program goals.
• Excellent written and oral English communication skills, as demonstrated by presenting at leading scientific or technical conferences.
• Experience coaching and supporting the development of junior engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing tooling to consolidate application security test findings from multiple sources to facilitate developer engagement and integrate with development workflows and tracking systems.
• Experience administering Snyk and Endor Labs.
• Experience integrating Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tooling with application security pipelines.
• Experience automating workflows via programming and scripting languages such as Python.
• Experience building logging into DevSecOps pipelines to gain insights into pipeline performance.
• Experience collaborating with vulnerability and risk management partners to interface with risk management and acceptance processes.

Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick).
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Eligibility to participate in short-term incentive programs.