Senior Security Engineer at SUSE (Nuremberg, Germany) (allows remote)

SUSE is a growing company, with great products, a culture that fosters openness and friendship, and where many opportunities exist.

Product security is the most important building block of the global IT ecosystem.

Our SUSE Security Team has over two decades of experience working on proactive and reactive security to make our products outstanding. Using the latest technologies allows us to respond to high impact and very urgent vulnerabilities like Heartbleed, ShellShock, Meltdown and Spectre. The race is still on-going and we need you to stay ahead!

Location: Nuremberg, Germany or remote office

Key Responsibilities:

Product security for our enterprise and community products

Secure product development, supporting development teams

Penetration testing of software products

Security incident management, evaluation, assessment, fixing of vulnerabilities

Developing tools

Writing patches

Working in projects and teams

Communication with external and internal (technical) customers

Candidate Profile:

An academic degree (Master/Bachelor or comparable) or IT specialist (Fachinformatiker)

Self-motivated and self-organized

Very good understanding of the Linux operating system

Programming skills in C and at least one scripting language (bash, perl, ruby, python, …)

Experience with application security

Knowledge of network security (TCP/IP, SSH, TLS/SSL) is a plus

Pronounced quality awareness

Good communication skills

Be a team player

Highly proficient in spoken and written English

What makes us different:

You will find and can connect to highly skilled engineers at SUSE

We provide many different products and endless opportunities to learn

We help our employees to develop

Our work environment is creative and productive

You can work with and within an international team

Our working hours are as flexible as possible

We organize regular events (hackathons, workshops, outdoor events, ...) to build up relationships and friendship within and across teams

At SUSE the opinion of the employee matters!