Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck, a recognized pioneer in application security, provides SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.
The Static Analysis team is looking for a software developer intern, with interest in building security tools, to join the Black Duck Sigma team. This intern position involves evolving our static analysis product to help detect vulnerabilities in customer code. In particular, the job will include researching security defects, writing analysis rules for detecting these defects in Rust, testing and evaluating the results to maintain accurate reporting in a scalable and performant manner. The perfect candidate will have a strong passion for improving software quality and security, enthusiasm about programming languages, but foremost, a strong desire to learn.
This internship is on site - in Belfast, UK.
Responsibilities- Research how security vulnerabilities manifest in the code
- Write analysis rules to detect security vulnerabilities
- Perform testing and evaluation of the rules on large code bases
- Experience in software development, preferably in Rust or C/C++
- Experience with development on UNIX
- Interest or experience with web application or mobile security
- Experience with one or more of programming languages Java, C#, JavaScript, Go, Python, Scala, Groovy.
Black Duck considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender preference, national origin, age, disability, or status as a Covered Veteran in accordance with federal law. In addition, Black Duck complies with applicable state and local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment in every jurisdiction in which it maintains facilities. Black Duck also provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with a disability in accordance with applicable laws.
