Job DescriptionSr. Product Security Engineer
What You'll Do: The Senior Product Security Engineer, based in Burlington Massachusetts, is a critical, high-level engineering position tasked to leading security efforts across the product lifecycle, ensuring products meet regulatory expectations and industry best practices for cybersecurity. This role provides both hands-on technical expertise and cross-functional leadership, with influence over product strategy, development processes, and post-market security posture.
Security Architecture & Requirements - Define security requirements and risk mitigations for new products and features.
- Translate regulatory and industry security standards (e.g., FDA, ISO 27001, NIST, OWASP) into actionable product requirements.
- Develop and maintain security architecture diagrams and models for software and integrated systems.
Development Lifecycle Security - Embed secure development practices (threat modeling, secure coding, code review standards) into the software development lifecycle.
- Define and support secure CI/CD practices, including secrets management, dependency management, and supply-chain security.
- Partner with DevOps/IT to secure cloud infrastructure, build pipelines, and deployment environments.
Testing & Validation - Assist the testing team with security testing efforts for new and on-market products, including penetration testing, fuzzing, and static/dynamic code analysis.
- Update and maintain vulnerability management processes, including SBOM creation and maintenance.
- Collaborate with QA to integrate automated security testing into regression and release pipelines.
- Documentation & Compliance
- Generate and maintain pre-market security documentation to support regulatory submissions (e.g., security risk assessments, security architecture views, threat models, FDA cybersecurity guidance compliance).
- Maintain records of vulnerability assessments, mitigations, and patch processes.
- Support audit and inspection readiness with thorough, traceable documentation
Vulnerability & Incident Management - Manage product vulnerability assessment and mitigation activities, both pre-market and post-market.
- Coordinate cross-functional response to newly discovered vulnerabilities, including communication, remediation, and regulatory reporting.
- Track and monitor vulnerability disclosures from third-party libraries and components.
Cross-Functional Leadership - Act as the security subject matter expert across product teams.
- Provide training and mentoring to engineers on secure design and coding practices.
- Partner with compliance, regulatory, and quality teams to align product security strategy with organizational goals
How You'll Get There: - 7-10 years total professional experience in software engineering, cybersecurity, or related technical fields.
- 3-5 years focused on product or embedded system security, ideally within regulated or safety-critical industries (medical device, aerospace, automotive, or defense).
- Demonstrated experience with:
- Designing or assessing security architectures for embedded or connected systems.
- Implementing secure development lifecycle (SDL) practices within engineering teams.
- Leading or participating in vulnerability management and coordinated disclosure processes.
- Generating pre-market cybersecurity documentation or equivalent regulatory submissions (e.g., FDA, ISO 14971, IEC 81001-5-1).
- Collaborating cross-functionally (engineering, QA, regulatory, IT) to implement and sustain security programs.
Preferred - Prior experience as a product security lead or security point of contact for a commercial medical or industrial product.
- Experience integrating security testing automation into CI/CD environments.
- Experience supporting external audits, penetration tests, or third-party security assessments.
Core Product Security Knowledge - Secure system and software design principles (least privilege, defense in depth, threat modeling, zero trust).
- Risk management frameworks: NIST 800-53, NIST 800-30, ISO 27001, ISO 14971, and IEC 81001-5-1.
- Cryptography fundamentals (key management, TLS, symmetric/asymmetric encryption, hashing).
- Authentication and authorization mechanisms, identity management, and secure session handling.
- Secure coding standards (e.g., CERT C/C++, OWASP, MISRA, CWE/SANS Top 25).
- Supply chain security concepts and SBOM management (SPDX, CycloneDX).
DevOps & Infrastructure Knowledge - CI/CD security practices, secrets management, container security (Docker, Podman), and artifact signing.
- Common security testing tools: SAST, DAST, SCA, fuzzers, and pen-testing frameworks.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, or on-prem Linux environments).
- Incident response and vulnerability disclosure processes.
Regulatory & Documentation Knowledge - FDA cybersecurity premarket and postmarket guidance.
- Secure update/patch management strategies (aligned with FDA "updateability & patchability" expectations).
- Audit-ready documentation practices and traceability to design controls.
Minimum - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
Preferred - Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, or Systems Engineering (ideal for regulated product security leadership).
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About UsGenerous. Innovative. Leadership-driven. Family-oriented. Socially responsible. Founded in 1998, Glaukos Corporation is an ophthalmic pharmaceutical and medical technology company focused on developing and commercializing novel therapies for the treatment of glaucoma, corneal disorders, and retinal diseases.
Our mission at Glaukos is to truly transform vision by pioneering novel, dropless therapies that can meaningfully advance the standard of care and improve the lives of patients suffering from chronic, sight-threatening eye diseases.
Innovation is at the core of everything we do, and we are resolute in our commitment to challenge conventional thinking with new treatment alternatives that are supported by real science, robust clinical evidence, and an unrelenting focus on patients.
Our constant pursuit of game-changing technologies that disrupt legacy treatment paradigms is encapsulated in the Glaukos mantra "We'll Go First," which articulates our willingness to take chances, our determination to forge new ground, and our commitment to continuous improvement in all that we do.
Our company completed an initial public offering in June of 2015, and our shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "GKOS". Our global headquarters is in Aliso Viejo, California with additional locations in San Clemente, California, and Burlington, Massachusetts.
Glaukos Corporation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
