Intuit Credit Karma is a mission-driven company, focused on championing financial progress for our more than 130 million members globally. While we're best known for pioneering free credit scores, our members turn to us for everything related to their financial goals, including identity monitoring, applying for credit cards, shopping for insurance and loans (car, home and personal) and savings accounts and checking accounts* -- all for free. Credit Karma has grown significantly through the years: we now have more than 1,700 employees across our offices in Oakland, Charlotte, Culver City, San Diego, London and New York City.

*Banking services provided by MVB Bank, Inc., Member FDIC

As an Application Security Engineer, you will primarily focus on offensive security and closely work with architects and engineering teams to guide the implementation of secure practices across different areas like cloud, API, applications and mobile devices. You will identify trends and risks across multiple platforms, and engage with senior leadership to provide action plans and strategy.

What You'll Do:

  • Provide security expertise for cloud, web and mobile projects, helping teams meet the enterprise and IT security policies, industry regulations, and best practices.
  • Participate in developing runtime analysis capabilities to identify security vulnerabilities with high confidence.
  • Ensure the quality of our applications and products by guiding them through the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) process.
  • Advocate, research, develop new tools to support our security patterns and standards.
  • Monitor our exposure to, and assess the impact of, new security threats, vulnerabilities and risks.
  • Work with security and engineering teams to maintain a security architecture that provides security controls throughout all platforms to mitigate risk, and to meet goals and regulatory requirements.
  • Report to the Director of Application Security

Minimum Requirements:

  • 3+ years' experience in the application security industry, solving security problems in large-scale systems.
  • Experience with integrating security scanning tools with CI/CD, Web Application pentesting, fuzzing and DAST.
  • Expertise in verifying and measuring common security vulnerabilities, and demonstrated ability in communicating these concepts to your partners in engineering. From the OWASP Top Ten to more advanced concepts, you've seen it before, and can describe it with ease.
  • Familiarity with the responsibilities and workflow of software developers. The Application Security team works with engineering to meet both business needs and security requirements. You can speak their language, and sympathize with their challenges.

Even Better:

  • Exposure to most of the following technologies: Google Cloud, iOS, IAM, Snyk, Android, CircleCI, Consul, Kubernetes, PKI, React, GraphQL, Splunk, and InfluxDB.
  • Experience defining security architecture patterns and standards in a large enterprise organization.
  • Knowledge of cryptography including algorithms, standards, and their practical applications such as x.509 certificates.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Credit Karma is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We welcome all candidates without regard to race, color, religion, age, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, veteran or military status, disability (physical or mental), genetic information or other protected characteristic. We prohibit discrimination of any kind and operate in compliance with applicable fair chance laws. 

Credit Karma is also  committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment because it is the right thing to do. We believe that such an environment advances long-term professional growth, creates a robust business, and supports our mission of championing financial progress for everyone. We offer generous benefits and perks with a single eye to nourishing an inclusive environment that recognizes the contributions of all and fosters diversity by supporting our internal Employee Resource Groups. We’ve worked hard to build an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and the opportunity for professional growth. As part of the Credit Karma team, your voice will be heard, your contributions will matter, and your unique background and experiences will be celebrated.

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