As the global leader in high-speed connectivity, Ciena is committed to a people-first approach. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a flexible work environment that empowers individual growth, well-being, and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.
Ciena’s Product Security team plays a critical role in ensuring that products are designed, built, and released with security at their core. This role contributes directly to protecting customers by embedding security throughout the product lifecycle and enabling effective vulnerability response. The position partners closely with engineering and cross‑functional teams to strengthen product resilience and trust.
How you will make an impact:
- Drive product security activities across the product development lifecycle, including design reviews, threat modelling, security testing, and release readiness.
- Execute product penetration testing, vulnerability validation, exploitability analysis, and remediation verification.
- Partner with engineering teams to identify, track, and remediate product security issues.
- Contribute to PSIRT operations through vulnerability intake, triage, impact analysis, coordination with product teams, and advisory preparation.
- Maintain and evolve product security guidelines, secure development practices, and security requirements.
- Manage and operate the Product Security lab environment, including systems, tools, test environments, networking, logging, and access controls.
- Enable accurate security testing through the creation and maintenance of customer‑like lab environments and relevant telemetry and logging data.
The must haves:
- Experience: 3 to 5 years of experience in product security, application security, penetration testing, infrastructure security, lab operations, or a related technical security role.
- Application of penetration testing tools and techniques in a product or lab environment.
- Application of vulnerability assessment, exploit validation, and remediation verification practices.
- Application of Linux systems administration, networking fundamentals, and security hardening techniques.
- Experience collaborating with product engineering teams to resolve security issues.
- Exposure to PSIRT or vulnerability management processes.
- Ability to troubleshoot systems, lab environments, network connectivity, and security tooling.
- Application of common security frameworks and standards such as OWASP, CVSS, CWE, NIST, or secure SDLC practices.
- Ability to communicate technical risk clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive issues to closure.
Nice to haves:
- Exposure to third‑party penetration testing coordination, evidence collection, and remediation follow‑up.
- Experience supporting centralized logging, telemetry collection, or detection engineering activities.
- Background in maintaining customer‑representative lab or test environments.
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Skills Required
- 3 to 5 years of experience in product security, application security, penetration testing, infrastructure security, lab operations, or a related technical security role
- Experience applying penetration testing tools and techniques in a product or lab environment
- Experience applying vulnerability assessment, exploit validation, and remediation verification practices
- Experience with Linux systems administration, networking fundamentals, and security hardening techniques
- Experience collaborating with product engineering teams to resolve security issues
- Exposure to PSIRT or vulnerability management processes
- Ability to troubleshoot systems, lab environments, network connectivity, and security tooling
- Experience applying security frameworks and standards such as OWASP, CVSS, CWE, NIST, or secure SDLC practices
- Ability to communicate technical risk clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive issues to closure
- Exposure to third-party penetration testing coordination, evidence collection, and remediation follow-up
- Experience supporting centralized logging, telemetry collection, or detection engineering activities
- Background maintaining customer-representative lab or test environments
Ciena Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is often characterized as competitive or above-market in certain roles and regions, with references to market-aligned salary ranges and transparency around pay bands.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is frequently framed as comprehensive, including medical, dental, and vision, with indications that coverage can extend to dependents and is viewed as a meaningful component of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are described as flexible and generous, including Flex/uncapped PTO in many cases and additional paid time for volunteering.
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Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) is a global leader in networking systems, services, and software. We build the world’s most adaptive networks to enable our customers to deliver richer, more connected experiences for all users. At our core, Ciena is a company rooted in people. We prioritize deep, collaborative relationships within our teams and alongside our customers, partners, and communities around the world. For three-plus decades, we’ve brought our humanity to our relentless pursuit of innovation. We continue to lead the evolution of networking with a strong track record of industry firsts. As end-user expectations skyrocket, our customers and their networks must transform. Ciena powers this transformation by driving next-generation solutions built for maximum openness and agility—today and into the future. Corporate/Brand Values: • Customer First • Integrity • Velocity • Innovation • Outstanding People We're the perfect size for you to make an impact. W Only Ciena has the depth of expertise and the culture of collaboration and partnership required to help our partners evolve. We do this by strategically integrating hardware, services, and software in an open environment to ensure our clients’ networks are ‘fit for flexibility’ today and into the f
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