Job description
About the TeamThe USDS Offensive Security and Privacy serves as the Independent Testing and Validation pillar for USDS.
The team performs cyber threat simulations within the TikTok USDS environment to proactively identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and defense gaps.
They do so by analyzing the organization's attack surface, which includes - but is not limited to - products, applications, controls, appliances, and infrastructure.
Their objective is to emulate adversaries to equip the organization against emerging threats by improving their identification, detection, protection, response, and remediation capabilities.
As an Application Security Penetration Tester, you will validate security controls around web resources and mobile applications and their backend web services for TikTok.
Work with a team of security testing professionals to enhance existing services offerings and security testing capabilities and conduct hands on technical testing focused on identification of OWASP type vulnerabilities in both web application and mobile applications.
To succeed in this role the candidate will possess breadth and depth of knowledge in security of operating systems, networking and protocols, firewalls, databases and middleware applications, forensics, scripting and programing.
All Application Security Penetration Testers are expected to continuously improve their tradecraft through research, to add breadth and depth to their knowledge.
In order to enhance collaboration and cross-functional partnerships, among other things, at this time, our organization follows a hybrid work schedule that requires employees to work in the office 3 days a week, or as directed by their manager/department.
We regularly review our hybrid work model, and the specific requirements may change at any time.
Responsibilities
- Develop/modify custom tooling to solve new needs
- Build relationships with engineering teams to strengthen TikTok's to security state
- Conduct full exploitation operations in Windows and *nix environments
- Develop comprehensive and accurate reports and presentations for both technical and executive audiences
- Communicate findings and strategy to client stakeholders, including technical staff, executive leadership, and legal counsel
- Perform innovative research and promote an environment of innovation and knowledge sharing
- Perform web application testing, mobile application testing, network penetration testing, and source code reviews
- Utilize attacker tools, tactics, and procedures to perform analysis and identify vulnerabilities
- Implement static and dynamic security testing as part of an automated application security testing process
- Other Cybersecurity operational and project initiatives responsibilities to be assigned
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors’ Degree or industry equivalent work experience in IT, Computer Engineering or a similar field
- 3+ years of experience performing application penetration tests
- Well-rounded background in application, network, and system security
- Experience with using, administering, and troubleshooting different flavors of Linux + Window
- Experience with reading, writing, and editing code written in various programming languages, such as Perl, Python, Ruby, Bash, C/C++, C#, and Java
- Experience with Burp Suite Pro, including identification and usage of relevant plugins
- Experience with security assessment tools, including Nessus, Accunetix, Metasploit, or Cobalt Strike Preferred Qualifications:
- Industry certifications such as OSCP, OSCE, OSWE, GPEN, GCIH, GWAPT, or GXPN
- Contributions to the security community such as research, public CVEs, bug-bounty recognitions, open-source projects, blogs, publications, etc
- Experience with server administration, TCP/IP networking, vulnerability identification and exploitation, vulnerability exploit code development, offensive security operation coordination and communication, vulnerability tracking and remediation, mobile testing
- Experience with methodologies on both static and dynamic analysis for different application types and platforms
- Experience working with Web Application Firewalls
- Securing, testing, having a good understanding of API vulnerabilities and how to address them
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