Security Engineer - Zoom Communications, Inc.

What you can expect

The Security Engineer is responsible for security design and reviews across our products and services. The ideal candidate brings broad technical expertise and hands-on experience in end-to-end product security. In this role, you’ll collaborate with engineering teams to design, implement, and validate secure solutions. You’ll serve as a trusted security advisor, guiding architecture and reviewing implementation, particularly for new features or security enhancements. This is a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud and security technologies while making a direct impact on Zoom’s platform.

About the Team

The Security Architecture team is dedicated to ensuring Zoom releases and deploys secure products. We work with diverse engineering, compliance and DevOps teams across the organization to meet security goals and maintain compliance with established SLAs.

Responsibilities

Being a security subject-matter expert, guide engineering teams in end-to-end secure system design and implementation.

Conducting threat modeling, architecture review, security code review, security assessment, and security testing (web application, native application, web services, cloud-based services, and infrastructure assessments).

Performing cloud infrastructure reviews from a security perspective; the primary focus will be on AWS permissions and configuration issues within components like IAM and S3.

Performing an in-depth security review of new Zoom features and functionalities. This includes identifying security vulnerabilities such as those in the Owasp Top Ten, common issues from the NVD, and risks like RCE. It also involves reviewing Java or Python code and verifying security posture through manual and automated testing using tools like Burp Suite and Coverity.

Identifying gaps in existing cloud security architecture design/configuration, recommend changes or enhancements (authentication, authorization, network segmentation, container configuration, bastion host setup, etc.).

Providing hands on security training and secure coding best practices to engineering teams.

What we’re looking for

Have obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Cyber Security, Computer or Electrical Engineering (or similar field), or equivalent experience, and 5+ years of experience in security.

Have extensive experience in security testing in various environments, including assessing the security posture of web applications, native applications, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure such as AWS. Focus on securing web services, infrastructure, deployment, and platform core services.