Job Description
Position Description
As a Senior Software Engineer focused on Security for Rockwell Automation products, you will have the opportunity to design and develop industry-leading commercial software known for its innovation and usability. With an emphasis on security, this position focuses on ensuring product software is developed employing best practices for secure design and coding.
In this position, you will be a key player in subsystem design, implementation, and testing. You will play an active role in all the stages of the development lifecycle and support your team throughout the process. You will also help ensure that developed products meet requirements and are within total quality management standards. This position will allow you to collaborate with multiple global cross-functional teams and may also require you to be the technical lead of a small-scale feature or portion of a feature.
When you join our software engineering group, you become part of a team that believes in knowledge sharing and collaboration and that is committed to using reliable and well-thought-out engineering practices and technology to overcome any challenges.
We are looking for someone who will effectively leverage a diverse set of technical backgrounds and opinions by fostering a team-oriented environment and the use of open and direct communications, honesty and respect. The ideal candidate will also actively seek knowledge of new developments in the software engineering, computer engineering, cyber security, and test automation fields and will identify and pursue career development and training opportunities.
Essential Functions
- Applies secure code design and development best practices to the product
- Participates in the education of peers on security issues and best practices
- Participates in the evolution of security standards for software development
- Participates in design and development of security functionality that resides within the product
- Collects, contributes to and documents requirements for a feature and its components, ensuring the information required for the development of software and corresponding test cases are contained in the specifications
- Develops new subsystem designs or contributes to existing ones ensuring they meet the established requirements
- Establishes a timeline and determines the resources needed to execute a design. Considers tradeoffs between requirements, speed, cost and reliability in the choice of a design approach. Provides progress reports, as needed
- Implements and documents code that meets the requirements of the software design
- Develops and executes thorough unit test plans. Reports, analyzes, debugs and corrects anomalies. Takes the lead in the integration of other components by solving problems within and across subsystems to produce a final product.
- Leads or participates in reviews of documents, designs, code, test cases and user documentation
- Determines the origin and root cause of identified anomalies
- Responsible for the maintenance and integrity of one or more software subsystems
- Builds relationships and interacts with peers to ensure assigned tasks are prioritized appropriately
- Takes the lead on identifying and recommending software development capability improvements in the areas of security, software development practices, and development tools
- Thinks outside the box and is willing to research and explore new avenues to overcome obstacles by utilizing the latest technologies and standards
- Clearly communicates and conveys design concepts, both verbally and in writing
- Able to learn and understand complex control system concepts
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Typically requires a minimum of five years of experience in a software product development environment
- Familiarity with cryptography and security protocols
- Understanding of basic software vulnerabilities and mitigations
- Familiarity with and ability to provide guidance to teams during threat modeling exercises
- Direct experience applying security to web technologies as a developer
- One or more security certifications
- Maintains a strong knowledge of secure development practices
- Experience in large, scalable distributed systems and/or SaaS solutions
- Software development on Cloud and Mobile platforms
- Able to apply object orientated designs using C++, C#, Java, or other relevant programming languages
- Proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, Angular framework, GraphQL
- Software development on both Windows and Linux
- Proven application of data structures and algorithms
- Basic understanding of design patterns
- Direct experience with the Industrial Automation industry
- Basic understanding of architecting modular software
- Desire to learn and keep up to date with latest security technologies and threats
- Direct experience collaborating with local and global technical development teams
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and veterans.
If you are an individual with a disability and you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact our services team at +1 (844) 404-7427.
