Lead Incident Security Responder

2 months, 3 weeks ago
Full-time
Lead
Cybersecurity
Black Duck Inn

Black Duck Inn

Black Duck Inn provides application security testing tools and services designed to help organizations build high-quality, secure software, and is recognized as a leader in the AppSec industry by Gartner and Forrester.

Internet Software & Services
1K-5K
Founded 2002
$2M raised

Description

  • Partner with engineering teams on architecture reviews, threat models, and security design feedback for Black Duck products.
  • Support the secure development lifecycle across SCA, SAST, secret scanning, dependency hygiene, and build pipeline security.
  • Triage internal and externally reported product vulnerabilities and help drive remediation with engineering teams.
  • Coordinate vulnerability fixes and support customer-facing communications when needed.
  • Handle customer security questionnaires, audit requests, and ad hoc product security questions.
  • Draft technically accurate responses to customer security inquiries and gather supporting evidence from engineering.
  • Join customer security calls as a subject matter expert and contribute reusable responses to the knowledge base.
  • Support detection engineering and incident response activities, especially where they intersect with product security risks.
  • Maintain and tune detection content in CrowdStrike NG-SIEM and Sumo Logic and help resolve MDR escalations.
  • Contribute to SOAR automations, runbooks, project tracking in Jira, vendor evaluations, documentation, and mentoring of less experienced team members.

Requirements

  • 7–8 years of applicable experience in product security, application security, or security engineering.
  • Hands-on depth in at least two areas: secure SDLC, threat modeling, secure code review, vulnerability management, product incident response, or customer-facing product security work.
  • Working knowledge of application security tooling, including SCA, SAST, DAST, and secret scanning.
  • Familiarity with at least one major cloud platform from a security perspective: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Awareness of AI and LLM security risks, including prompt injection, sensitive data exposure, and the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications.
  • Ability to work independently under general guidance and lead workstreams or small project teams without formal direct-report authority.
  • Practical use of AI and LLM tools to accelerate security work, with sound judgment on when human validation is required.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to explain technical topics to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience contributing to a PSIRT or equivalent product vulnerability response process (preferred).
  • Familiarity with CVSS, embargo handling, and coordinated disclosure (preferred).
  • Industry certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, GWAPT, GPEN, OSCP, OSWE, or cloud security equivalents are a plus.
  • Experience supporting customer security questionnaires, RFPs, or third-party risk assessments (preferred).

Benefits

  • Pay range of CAD $100,000 to $150,000.
  • Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
  • General office environment with standard computer-based work.
  • Occasional travel may be required.

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