Security Software Engineer

Security Software Engineer

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your experience to a world-class company that is market-leading or both content and technology? If yes, we’re looking for you.

Join our team! T As a security software engineer, you will focus on designing and developing our next generation of secure frameworks and libraries. This includes developing IDE/Azure DevOps plugins, secrets management tooling, SOAR automation, and our enterprise product security application used as the security source of truth across Thomson Reuters. All work is integrated into our product teams’ S-SDLCs to ensure in-depth security of our products and a robust software supply chain security.

For this role, a successful candidate will have a well-rounded acumen in full-stack secure software development, preferably accompanied with knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure (AWS/Azure) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

About the role:

In this role as a Security Software Engineer, you will:

• Develop our DevSecOps machinery that provides teams with secure defaults, powering our frictionless vision of product security.
• Work on sets of secure libraries and Azure DevOps/IDE plugins to further the adoption of security.
• Develop our single pane of glass application, providing insights and self-service to our product and application teams.
• Work with our application security and cloud-native security teams to develop a supply chain security toolchain.
• Leverage test-driven development (e.g., unit, E2E, regression) to deliver quality software.
• Participate in developing software development guidelines and documentation.

About you: You are a fit for the role of Security Software Engineer if you meet the below qualifications:

• 2+ years as a software developer in a procedural language such as Golang and object-oriented JavaScript UI framework (e.g. React, Angular, Vue.js). Knowledge of Python, NodeJs, C#, or Java is also a plus.
• Working proficiency leveraging and operating AWS services such as IAM, SQS, S3, Lambdas, CloudFormation, CloudFront, DynamoDB, RDS, EKS, and EC2.
• Knowledge of TypeScript best practices.
• Knowledge of SQL and database practices.
• Experience in developing robust, scalable, and well-documented REST APIs.
• Ability to take on any programming assignments autonomously and deliver.
• An "all things as-code" mindset to expand to adjacent security teams.
• Familiarity with secure software development methodologies.

As a Plus

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform.
• Comprehension of SOLID principles.
• Hands-on security engineering or application security experience is a plus.
• Understanding of OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and how best to mitigate them.
• Familiarity with FedRAMP Moderate controls
• Basic understanding of authentication/authorization (a12n/a11n) flows.
• Understanding of security in transit/security at rest encryption methodologies.
• Competency in Snowflake and Postgres database technologies and administration.

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What’s in it For You?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you’ll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

• Industry-Leading Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, and hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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