PlayStation

Senior Security Research Engineer

PlayStation$175K — $263K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of relevant experience in information security or related fields with focus on vulnerability management and exposure management.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related discipline.
  • Proven track record of leading complex technical workstreams and achieving measurable objectives across teams without direct authority.
  • Hands-on experience in vulnerability research, technical analysis, and security validation across various technology domains.
  • Proficiency with scripting and programming to enhance security analysis, using languages like Python or Bash.

Responsibilities

  • Lead advanced Global Vulnerability Management workstreams, focusing on Threat Exposure Management improvements.
  • Translate annual TEM goals into actionable delivery plans and monitor progress for improving outcomes.
  • Conduct hands-on vulnerability research and validate security conditions to eliminate false positives.
  • Enhance vulnerability discovery across diverse technology environments including networks and cloud.
  • Partner with Information Security teams to clarify roles and ensure effective remediation execution.

Benefits

  • Top-tier benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Matching 401(k) program to support retirement savings.
  • Paid time off to promote work-life balance.
  • Wellness program aimed at employee well-being.
  • Generous employee discounts on Sony products.
Full Job Description
Reporting to the Director of Global Vulnerability Management, you will serve as a Senior Security Research Engineer and technical lead within SIE's Global Vulnerability Management team. You will lead complex work that advances our Threat Exposure Management capability and supports our transition to a Continuous Threat Exposure Management operating model, while remaining directly engaged in vulnerability research, analysis, security validation, prioritization, and remediation support.

You will partner across Information Security, engineering, technology, and business teams to improve how SIE discovers, prioritizes, validates, and mobilizes action on security risks. You will translate annual TEM goals into defined workstreams, delivery plans, success measures, and repeatable operating practices that improve visibility, decision-making, remediation outcomes, and program scale.

Responsibilities
  • Lead complex Global Vulnerability Management workstreams that advance SIE's Threat Exposure Management capability and transition toward a Continuous Threat Exposure Management operating model across discovery, prioritization, validation, and mobilization.
  • Translate annual TEM goals into defined delivery plans, milestones, success measures, dependencies, and repeatable operating practices. Monitor progress, identify barriers, and adjust execution to improve outcomes.
  • Lead hands-on vulnerability research and technical analysis to confirm security conditions, eliminate false positives, characterize exploitability and business impact, and provide actionable remediation or mitigation guidance.
  • Improve the discovery and assessment of vulnerabilities across SIE network, cloud, endpoint, application, container, and other technology environments.
  • Develop risk-based prioritization using vulnerability and threat intelligence, exploitation evidence, asset and business context, control effectiveness, and remediation considerations.
  • Lead security validation activities and develop proofs of concept when appropriate to distinguish material risk, evaluate defensive controls, and support informed decisions.
  • Partner with Information Security teams and technology owners to mobilize remediation, clarify ownership, establish effective handoffs, resolve barriers, and measure progress through remediation, mitigation, or accepted disposition.
  • Evolve GVM platforms, integrations, data, analytics, automation, and AI-enabled workflows to improve coverage, data quality, consistency, decision speed, and operational scale.
  • Communicate vulnerability trends, material risks, remediation progress, and program outcomes to technical, operational, and leadership audiences through clear reports and recommendations.
  • Mentor engineers and partner teams, contribute to technical standards and procedures, and improve the quality of vulnerability analysis, validation, documentation, and delivery.
  • Maintain current knowledge of relevant vulnerabilities, exploitation techniques, threat activity, security technologies, and industry practices.
  • Some travel may be required.
Qualifications
  • 8+ years of relevant experience in information security, information technology, systems engineering, or a related field, including substantial experience in vulnerability management, security research, or exposure management.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, information security, or a related discipline.
  • Experience leading complex technical workstreams across multiple teams, translating objectives into delivery plans, and achieving measurable outcomes without relying on direct reporting authority.
  • Hands-on experience with vulnerability research, technical analysis, security validation, risk-based prioritization, and remediation or mitigation guidance.
  • Experience assessing vulnerabilities across several technology domains, such as operating systems, networks, cloud services, applications, endpoints, containers, databases, or hybrid infrastructure.
  • Experience with vulnerability discovery, assessment, validation, or exposure-management platforms and their supporting integrations.
  • Knowledge of adversarial tactics, exploitation techniques, threat intelligence, and attack frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, with the ability to apply that information to vulnerability prioritization.
  • Experience using scripting, programming, APIs, or automation to improve security analysis and operational workflows. Relevant technologies may include Python, SQL, Bash, PowerShell, JavaScript, or comparable languages.
  • Experience analyzing and contextualizing security data to connect technical findings with asset, service, business, threat, control, and remediation information.
  • Familiarity with software engineering practices such as version control, testing, code review, CI/CD, reusable components, and controlled production releases.
  • Ability to communicate complex security conditions, priorities, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical, operational, and leadership audiences.
  • Experience mentoring engineers or analysts and influencing technical practices across teams.
Desired qualifications
  • Experience helping evolve a traditional vulnerability-management function toward a TEM or CTEM operating model.
  • Experience with continuous security validation, adversarial exposure validation, exploit research, or proof-of-concept development.
  • Experience securing cloud, container, application, or build-pipeline environments and integrating security capabilities into engineering workflows.
  • Experience with security-data and analytics platforms such as Snowflake, Domo, or comparable technologies.
  • Experience applying automation, advanced analytics, or AI-enabled capabilities to vulnerability analysis, prioritization, validation, or remediation workflows.


At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role's base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.

Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.

In addition, this role is eligible for SIE's top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.

This is a flexible role that can be remote, with varying pay ranges based on geographic location. For example, if you are based out of Seattle, the estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.

$175,500-$263,300 USD

About PlayStation

PlayStation is a video game brand that consists of four home video game consoles, as well as a media center, an online service, a line of controllers, two handhelds and a phone, as well as multiple magazines. The brand is produced by Sony Interactive Entertainment, a division of Sony, with the first PlayStation console released in December 1994, followed by the PlayStation 2 in 2000, the PlayStation 3 in 2006, the PlayStation 4 in 2013, and the PlayStation 5 in 2020. PlayStation also has a strong online presence, with the PlayStation Network (PSN) which provides online gaming, streaming services, and access to the PlayStation Store. The PlayStation brand has become one of the most successful video game brands in history, with over 500 million consoles sold worldwide.
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