Web Application Research Engineer at Tenable, Inc. (Dublin, Ireland)

Desired Skills and Experience

Develop exploits, proof-of- concepts for web application vulnerabilities
Develop new plugins to detect web application vulnerabilities
Enhance existing plugins to improve detection of web application vulnerabilities
Analyse vulnerabilities in web applications through dynamic and static analysis
Installing vulnerable/non-vulnerable versions of web applications
Work with customer support to resolve false positive/negative reports
Manage, participate in, or directly work on any additional projects, assignments, or initiatives as assigned
Drive innovation by coming up with new ideas for our products and processes
B.S. degree in Computer Science or a related field
3-4 years of programming experience in Ruby or Python
In depth understanding of web application security vulnerabilities, detection and exploitation techniques
Understanding of Web Services technologies such as XML, SOAP, and AJAX
Web Server configuration knowledge: Microsoft IIS, Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat
Strong programming skills in Ruby or Python
Experience with one or more web application security assessment tools such as BurpSuite, Arachni, sqlmap, w3af, sqlninja, and others
Outstanding written and oral communication skills
Experience with pentesting web applications
Research and/or development experience with web application security assessment tools
Experience working with OWASP Top 10, CVE, and other vulnerability taxonomy/classification systems