Black Duck Software, Inc.

Application Security Engineer (West Coast)

United States full-time Mid $135,900 - $203,900
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About the role

Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck, a recognized pioneer in application security, provides SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.

Are you interested in joining a fast-growing organization in the application security space, which is in the top spot of
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for application security? Are you a technologist who wants to make a massive impact on
Customers and help them develop high-quality, secure software faster? We want to speak to you!
Black Duck seeks an experienced Technologist to help our Implementation and Services Team drive customer
onboarding and adoption. We're looking for someone to help us take our business to the next level of excellence in
delivery and customer delight!
The Team
The Black Duck Technical Services team is dedicated to supporting our customers in developing their AppSec
vision and achieving their goals quickly. We accomplish this through the delivery of exemplary product
implementations and adoption-focused services that are tailored to their specific needs. Our services are
designed to help customers of all sizes and types, from Startup’s to global organizations, build secure, high quality
software faster and maximize the value of their Black Duck tools.
The Position
This position will implement our industry leading Application Security products and solutions within our large
enterprise customers environments -> focusing on the WEST COAST (remote). You will work alongside our sales, sales engineering, customer success
managers, product development, support, solution architect, and project management team members to
ensure that our clients receive most value from our AppSec products and achieve a high level of adoption.
For information on our AppSec products please check out our website !
Responsibilities
• Secure Development: Educate customers on Secure Development processes. Identify opportunities
for improvement and help them get the most out of their operations.
• Customer enablement: Provide formal client training to constant efforts driving self-sufficiency within
your assigned accounts

Solution design: Engage with customers to understand their business needs and solve critical quality,
security, and compliance problems.
• Delivery: Work with the customer from Project initiation to completion with end-to-end ownership of
the results.
• Custom integrations Develop custom solutions to integrate our tools into SDLC and DevOps workflows
• Professional consulting: Be a trusted advisor to our customers, providing solution expertise in the

domain of software testing and security.
Qualifications
• Proven ability to deploy both SaaS and On-prem software solutions.

Software development experience with at least two programming languages namely C/C++, C# or

Java.

Strong scripting ability in one or more common scripting languages (Perl, Python, PowerShell, Bash).
• Experience with project scoping and requirements gathering
• Experience with Continuous Integration and DevOps tools
• Strong client consultation/onboarding background
• Proven ability to prioritize activities, set objectives and meet milestones
• Well organized. Able to deliver project milestones and deliver on-time
• Understanding of open-source software libraries such as glib, OpenSSL, Boost C++, etc. and their
associated licensing
• Able and willing to travel up to 20% as the job requires
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Master’s Degree preferred or equivalent Experience
• Must be eligible to work in the United States or Canada (WEST COAST) without requiring sponsorship now or in the

future.
Benefits
• Work From Home (Remote in United States or Canada)
• Competitive Total Compensation
• Annual Performance Bonus

Paid Vacation and Wellness Days
• Group Retirement Savings Plans and Employer Contributions

• Comprehensive Health Benefits

Pay Range

$135,900—$203,900 USD

Black Duck is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or military service status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Black Duck complies with all applicable laws prohibiting employment discrimination in every jurisdiction where it operates and provides reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law.

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