Electronic Arts

We are looking for an Application Security Analyst to help us actively defend EA’s products, data, and players. This remote-friendly role will report to the Senior Manager of the Verification and Pentest (VAP) team within the Secure Product Engineering and Anti-cheat Response (SPEAR) organization. You will work with a diverse set of timezones working most closely with an North American-based counterpart.

Responsibilities

• You will triage and investigate cases reported through our Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) program and partner with developers to guide remediations
• You will use your application security knowledge to identify proactive monitoring opportunities to detect future abuse across our applications
• You will investigate daily alerts, search logs for Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) and create or enhance detections
• You will identify systemic vulnerability trends and patterns, and engage EA security teams to prevent these at scale
• You will correctly rate the security impact of discovered vulnerabilities, articulate remediation steps to product teams, and report impact to leadership
• You will deliver talks and presentations within EA, including internal conferences

Qualifications

• At least three years hands-on experience of full stack Application Security reviews that span multiple platforms and programming languages
• Experience discovering and remediating CWE Top 25 and OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities
• Experience querying logs and setting up detections through a log aggregation platform, such as Grafana
• Experience handling coordinated vulnerability disclosure programs
• Hands-on experience with security assessment tools and understanding of their applicability and limitations in different assessment scenarios
• Knowledge in multiple of the following domains and expertise in at least one: Networking, OS Internals, Cloud Architecture, Web Frameworks, or Mobile Architecture
• Knowledge of best practices and common pitfalls in one or more of: cryptography, authentication mechanisms, authorization controls and network configurations
• Knowledge of multiple of the following exploitation techniques and expertise in at least one: XSS, SQLi, IDOR, MitM, DoS, BOF, or ROP
• Excellent verbal and written English skills
• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Security, or equivalent industry experience