Security Software Engineer

Equifax is where you can power your possible. If you want to achieve your true potential, chart new paths, develop new skills, collaborate with bright minds, and make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you.

Equifax is seeking a creative, high-energy and driven Security Software Engineer with hands-on development skills to work on uplifting our current encryption libraries to support multiple language interoperability. This position will be primarily responsible for collaborating with our Cryptography Staff Engineer to convert our existing Java crypto libraries into C while focusing on building out a strong Foreign Function Interface (FFI) foundation to support more modern languages (e.g. Python, .NET, GO). Our software engineering positions provide you the opportunity to join a team of talented engineers working with leading-edge technology. You are ideal for this position if you are a forward-thinking, committed, and enthusiastic software engineer who is passionate about cryptography..

To adhere to our corporate location policies, this resource will be required to be local to the surrounding Atlanta, GA . You are required to adhere to our Return To Office (RTO) / weekly onsite requirements (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday).

This position does not offer immigration sponsorship (current or future) including F-1 STEM OPT extension support.

What you'll do

• Demonstrate a deep understanding of cryptography science and application
• Deliver solutions for complex business problems through software standard SDLC
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills with the ability to both simplify complex problems and also dive deeper if needed
• Deliver complex software solutions that scale
• Provide deep troubleshooting skills with the ability to lead and solve production and customer issues under pressure
• Leverage strong experience in backend software development
• Mentor, coach and develop junior and senior software engineers
• Lead with a data/metrics driven mindset with a maniacal focus towards optimizing and creating efficient solutions
• Ensure compliance with EFX secure software development guidelines and best practices and responsible for meeting and maintaining QE, DevSec, and FinOps KPIs
• Define, maintain and report SLA, SLO, SLIs meeting EFX engineering standards in partnership with the product, engineering and architecture teams
• Collaborate with architects, SRE leads and other technical leadership on strategic technical direction, guidelines, and best practices
• Drive up-to-date technical documentation including support, end user documentation and run books
• Responsible for implementation architecture decision making associated with Product features/stories, refactoring work, and EOSL decisions

What experience you need

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years experience writing, debugging, and troubleshooting code in mainstream C and .NET
• 5+ years hands-on experience in DevSecOps and supporting development teams in secure coding practices.
• 5+ years experience related to cryptography, including symmetric and asymmetric encryption, key management, and digital signatures.

What could set you apart

• Strong background in identity provider (IdP) management and federated authentication solutions (SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect).
• Experience implementing technical controls and solutions that align with governance, risk, and compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS
• Self-starter that identifies/responds to priority shifts with minimal supervision.
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Demonstrated problem solving skills and the ability to resolve conflicts
• Experience designing and developing big data processing solutions using Dataflow/Apache Beam, Bigtable, BigQuery, PubSub, GCS, Composer/Airflow, and others
• Experience with backend technologies such as JAVA/J2EE, SpringBoot, SOA and Microservices
• Source code control management systems (e.g. SVN/Git, Github) and build tools like Maven & Gradle.
• Agile environments (e.g. Scrum, XP)
• Atlassian tooling (e.g. JIRA, Confluence, and Github)
• Developing with modern JDK (v1.7+)
• Automated Testing: JUnit, Selenium, LoadRunner, SoapUI
• Knowledge of RUST, Python, GO

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We offer comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages, 401k matching, paid time off, and organizational growth potential through our online learning platform with guided career tracks.

Are you ready to power your possible? Apply today, and get started on a path toward an exciting new career at Equifax, where you can make a difference!

Primary Location:
USA-GA-Alpharetta-JVW3

Function:
Function - Tech Dev and Client Services

Schedule:
Full time