Product Security Engineer

Job location: Remote in India

About the role:
In this role, your principal mission will be to drive security-related engineering engagement and technical remediation across Sun King's product lines. You will work across application security, architecture reviews, and cloud security to scale security engagement across Engineering. As a Product Security Engineer, you will leverage your software engineering skills and security expertise to raise the security bar across our infrastructure, mobile services, and web apps.

• Perform Application Security Reviews, including Penetration Testing and Code Reviews, on Mobile Applications, APIs, and web applications using OWASP standards.
• Identify security loopholes in product design through Threat Modeling.
• Deploy and manage security tool integration into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Perform SAST, DAST, and SCA scans using in-house preferred tools; review scan results for false positives and deliver findings to engineering teams.
• Lead product security efforts during security incident management and define post-incident remediation plans.
• Set up automated processes to monitor applications and systems for unusual activities (e.g., unauthorized access, modification, duplication, or destruction of information).
• Stay updated on the latest security vulnerabilities and trends.

• 3–6 years of experience in penetration testing, code review, DevSecOps, and architecture design reviews.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in the application security domain.
• Proficient in identifying vulnerabilities, guiding remediation steps, and tracking timely closure of issues based on severity.
• Experience with web application scanning tools such as Qualys WAS, AppSpider, Acunetix, Veracode, Burp Suite, Netsparker, OWASP ZAP, Checkmarx, Whitesource, Snyk, or similar.
• Strong knowledge of secure protocols, encryption standards, and authentication mechanisms.
• Holds at least one security certification such as OSCP, OSWE, GPEN, GWAPT, CRTP, etc.
• Good communication and collaboration skills with the ability to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders.

• Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
• An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.

Sun King is the world's leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection. Sun King has connected more than 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding over 200,000 homes each month.

Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via 'pay-as-you-go' purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.11 a day via mobile money or cash.

Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright. To date, our Sun King solar products have saved customers more than $4 billion cumulatively.

Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.

From cost-effective solar systems that provide home lighting and phone charging to robust solar inverters that can power high-energy appliances such as laptops, computers, refrigerators, and more, effectively acting as a full stand-in for grid power, Sun King's products cater to a wide range of income segments and energy needs. Leveraging its proven distribution network and brand, Sun King is expanding its range of products and services to encompass clean cooking, electric mobility, entertainment, and more, aiming to address the needs of our underserved customers.

Sun King employs 2,800 full-time staff in 12 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families.

Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 44% of Sun King's workforce.