Penetration Tester (Network/Cloud/Application) - USDS - Mountain View
Mountain View, California, United States
About TikTok U.S. Data Security
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. U.S. Data Security (“USDS”) is a subsidiary of TikTok in the U.S. This new, security-first division was created to bring heightened focus and governance to our data protection policies and content assurance protocols to keep U.S. users safe. Our focus is on providing oversight and protection of the TikTok platform and U.S. user data, so millions of Americans can continue turning to TikTok to learn something new, earn a living, express themselves creatively, or be entertained. The teams within USDS that deliver on this commitment daily span across Trust & Safety, Security & Privacy, Engineering, User & Product Ops, Corporate Functions and more.
Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.
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.
About the Team
The 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.
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
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. U.S. Data Security (“USDS”) is a subsidiary of TikTok in the U.S. This new, security-first division was created to bring heightened focus and governance to our data protection policies and content assurance protocols to keep U.S. users safe. Our focus is on providing oversight and protection of the TikTok platform and U.S. user data, so millions of Americans can continue turning to TikTok to learn something new, earn a living, express themselves creatively, or be entertained. The teams within USDS that deliver on this commitment daily span across Trust & Safety, Security & Privacy, Engineering, User & Product Ops, Corporate Functions and more.
Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.
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.
About the Team
The 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.
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
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Tags: Application security Cloud Firewalls Forensics Governance Offensive security OWASP Pentesting Privacy Scripting Strategy Vulnerabilities Web application testing Windows
Perks/benefits: Career development
Region:
North America
Country:
United States
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