Senior Staff - Product Security
US, Remote•United StatesNorth America•March 14, 2025
About Us
With electric vehicles (EVs) expected to be nearly 30% of new vehicle sales by 2025 and more than 50% by 2040, electric mobility is becoming a reality. ChargePoint is at the center of this revolution, powering one of the world’s leading EV charging networks and a comprehensive set of hardware, software and mobile solutions for every charging need. We bring together drivers, businesses, automakers, policymakers, utilities and other stakeholders to make e-mobility a global reality.
Since our founding in 2007, ChargePoint has focused solely on EV charging and established a business model that's been validated by more than a decade in business and thousands of customers. As now a public company, we remain focused on broadening our market leadership and building on years of innovation. ChargePoint offers a once-in-a-lifetime chance to build our all-electric future and dominate a trillion-dollar market.
Join the team that is building the EV charging industry and make your mark on how people and goods will get everywhere they need to go, in any context, for generations to come.
Discover what it’s like to help build the fueling network of the future - check out our Engineering Blog.
Reports To
Director, Information Security
What You Will Be Doing
ChargePoint is looking for a Sr. Staff – Product Security engineer who will help develop our product security strategy, implement tools, architect our product security roadmap, develop process, perform threat assessment and security reviews, and work with different team leaders to implement a security by design culture as part of our product lifecycle. This role will be responsible for providing guidance, advice, oversight, and implementation of controls on product security matters.
As a Product Security engineer, you will design security controls and help validate that our services, applications, stations, and emerging technologies are designed and implemented to the highest security standards. You will be responsible for analyzing the security of applications and services, discovering, and addressing security issues, designing security automation, and decisively taking action to mitigate emerging threats throughout a full secure development life cycle (SDLC). This role will provide career growth opportunities as you gain new security skills in the course of your work. You have an opportunity to experiment, learn, build tools, and work with teams building new technology and services at massive scale in the EV charging space.
What You Will Bring to ChargePoint
- Experience building relationships with key stakeholders across the business to understand their current and planned product activities (application and embedded)
- Experience developing processes and policies to mitigate key product risks
- Performing security assessments, identifying, and mitigating risks through effective tools, processes, training, and guidance. Managing product risk assessments and remediation plans
- Supporting the integration of security standards, controls, policies into the SDLC
- Developing and managing a comprehensive product security training program and promoting security awareness throughout the product team agenda
- Leading internal product meetings to present key product security metrics and risks to senior leadership
- Influence decision-makers and stakeholders to achieve a consistently high security bar
- Lead security projects (including security reviews, tool development, and creation of new security practices) with end-to-end ownership
- Experience working with engineering teams to design and implement security controls
- Support for mentoring, team building and recruiting activities
Requirements
- Eight (8) + years of dedicated working knowledge, and real-world experience of product security best practice across multiple functions and geographies
- Experience working with security requirements and regulations related
- Experience building, reviewing, and managing threat models / assessments
- Experience implementing security by design culture
- Experience with one or more programming languages (such as Java, C++, PHP, others) for the purpose of code review
- An understanding of networking and communication protocols (such as TCP/IP, UDP, SSL/TLS, IPSEC, HTTP, HTTPS, BGP)
- Ability to lead through influence within a secure development life cycle for multiple products and technologies, meeting customer expectations for security
- Demonstrate ability to clearly identify business and regulatory implications of analysis and findings and propose strategic solutions
- Customer and organizational data literacy on processing, usage, management
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders, understand technology and commercial concepts quickly
- Strong relationship’s skills / ability to communicate effectively both in writing and verbally
- Ability to identify and mitigate product security risks with the ability to understand materiality of risks and prioritize / differentiate response accordingly
- Experience in implementing and managing product security tools (good to have)
- Experience in the automotive or EV charging industry (good to have)
- Experience with embedded / hardware security (good to have)
Location
Remote location in U.S.
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