Vulnerability Management Engineer

Location: CA - San Francisco

Department: Information Security

About The role

As a Vulnerability Management Engineer, you will support the identification, assessment, prioritization, and remediation of vulnerabilities across applications and infrastructure. Working under the guidance of senior team members, you will assist in understanding how vulnerable dependencies enter an application, identifying remediation options, and engaging with engineering teams to track fixes. 

You will contribute to the maintenance of internal vulnerability-management tools, such as scripts, documentation, and reporting. The ideal candidate will have a desire to grow their AppSec expertise, will be eager to learn about modern security tooling and automation, and will be comfortable using AI tools like Claude to assist with documentation, investigation, and scripting tasks while following company security and data-handling requirements.

What you’ll do

• Perform regular vulnerability assessments using different tools. Regularly drive remediation and reporting of cataloged vulnerabilities.
• Assess discovered vulnerabilities and properly prioritize their scope, impact and necessary response actions.
• Conduct security reviews of our products and production infrastructure.
• Contribute to vulnerability management, application security and/or offensive/red-team operations.
• Engage in security audit and security regulatory exercises with partners and vendors.
• Support regulatory compliance monitoring and reporting
• Support treatment and remediation activities with identified points of contact and system owners
• Develop processes and document procedures for use by other team members and to enhance efficiencies

What you’ll need

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work-related experience
• Strong knowledge of industry standards regarding vulnerability management including Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE), Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), OWASP, etc.
• Experience with different types of vulnerability assessment tools or related experience in vulnerability detection DAST/SAST tools
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with the capacity to effectively convey intricate security concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge with prioritizing remediation activities with operational teams through risk ratings of vulnerabilities and assets
• Experience judging the vulnerability priority based on risk and impact
• Deep application security knowledge, with the ability to map an application vulnerability to exploitation indications and relevant investigative techniques.
• Hands-on experience with at least one coding language (Bash, Go, Python, Java).
• Experience with Secure Software Development Life Cycles.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in an information technology/security role
• 2+ years of experience with cloud technologies
• Ability to manage relationships with other business units, external vendors, and stakeholders when IT security risks are present and system or process changes must be made to mitigate risk
• Familiarity with AWS and at-scale services
• Experience with micro-service architecture
• Knowledge of CI/CD, application development and testing tools
• Ability to work in a fast paced and Agile development environment
• Work and play well with others; SoFi is a collaborative environment

Nice to have

• Masters or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering
• Financial services experience