Senior Product Security Engineer

As a Senior Product Security Engineer, you will join our team of talented professionals dedicated to embedding continuous and seamless security into our engineering processes. You will contribute to the development and implementation of our Secure Software Development Lifecycle (S-SDLC), working across multiple technical teams to enhance our security posture.

About the role:

In this role as a Senior Product Security Engineer you will:

• Promote secure-by-design architectures and implementations across all phases of our S-SDLC.

• Define product security standards, best practices, and processes with built-in governance and metrics.

• Develop new security capabilities, patterns and automation to integrate security throughout our development practices.

• Lead threat modeling sessions and secure code reviews (including of AI-based systems and products).

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineering, platform engineering, QA, and operations.

• Accelerate security remediation through data analysis and support for product engineering teams.

• This central role will allow you to have maximum impact ensuring our products and applications meet the highest security standards to protect our customers.

About you:
You are a good fit as Senior Product Security Engineer if your background includes:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent education experience.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering or application security.

• Experience conducting security-focused threat modeling and code reviews across multiple technology stacks and programming languages.

• Experience with security tools (SAST, SCA, DAST, fuzzers a plus) and analyzing their findings.

• Proven analytical skills with ability to develop innovative solutions to complex security challenges.

• Both defensive and offensive mindset.

Required Qualifications

• Strong understanding of security principles (cryptography, authentication, authorization, etc.) and common vulnerabilities applicable to applications (web, desktop or mobile), APIs and cloud environments.

• Ability to identify, analyze, and mitigate common security vulnerabilities at both design and implementation levels.

• Knowledge of software engineering principles with experience designing and implementing secure systems, aligned with secure by design and secure by default principles

• Proficiency in writing code, tests, deployment logic, and API integrations. Any language welcomed. Python, GoLang, Java preferred.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to articulate complex security concepts to diverse and cross-functional audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud or GCP).

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., CDK, Terraform, …).

• Experience securing or developing systems using Large Language Models, RAG, and AI Agents.

• Experience with common authentication and authorization standards (SAML and OAuth).

• Experience with containerized application and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, …).

• Knowledge of industry security frameworks and maturity models such as OWASP Application Security Verification Standard, CIS Benchmarks, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, OWASP SAMM or BSIMM.

• Relevant security certifications (e.g., OSCP, OSWE).

• Experience contributing to open-source security projects.

• Experience in security research, presenting at conferences, or publishing articles.

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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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