Security Internship

**About Highspot**

Highspot helps sales teams improve customer conversations and achieve their revenue goals. From content optimization and performance analytics to in-context training, guided selling, and more, the Highspot platform delivers enterprise-ready features in a modern design that sales reps and marketers love. Using Highspot, marketing leaders have deep insights and analytics into the performance and influenced revenue of content, campaigns, and marketing assets. What makes the solution special? It’s loved by sales reps globally, and is the #1 rated sales enablement platform on G2 Crowd.

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**Eligibility Statement**

To apply, students must be enrolled in either a four-year undergraduate program or a Masters, or Phd program at a university or accredited education institution in Canada. Students must also be already located in or willing to relocate to Vancouver for the duration of the internship. You must have at least completed your 2nd (undergrad) year prior to the start of the internship program. A cumulative minimum GPA of 3.2 is strongly recommended and official transcripts may be requested to validate your eligibility.

**Application & Selection Process**
- General background information (e.g. contact information, details about your current university or institution)
- Resume/CV and statement of interest
- Academic transcript from your current university or institution
- Response to our short answer prompt
- Formal interview(s) with hiring manager and team-fit representative

**About the Role**

At Highspot, our interns work on projects that Invent the Future and your team will rely on your skills and insights to Make it Happen. This is a unique chance to bring your unique skills, knowledge, and ideas to life while working on enabling the maturity of a new generation of cybersecurity protecting the Highspot platform and organization. You will be on the front lines of innovation developing capabilities focused on building solutions as Highspot evolves to fortify and safeguard against threat actors.

The internship is designed for you to do hands-on meaningful work and an opportunity to learn and grow. You'll foster one of our guiding principles: Learn it all, not know it all. While you’re making it happen, you’ll also experience our diverse community employee resource groups, senior staff engagement, and participate with like-minded engineering and security professionals.

Projects vary depending on business needs, experience, and/or location. You’ll work closely during your internship with our People team, hiring manager, and crew buddy to help you with your day-to-day.

Join Highspot today and help us Invent the Future.

**What You Will Learn**:

- The Highspot security team focuses on helping you to develop your security skills and capabilities by having you shadow or lead key security projects. You’ll be immersed in the day to day operations of our Product Security team to help make sure you exit the internship knowing how to be an effective member of a security team. The list below will give you a sample of projects you may be involved in, we will make sure your projects align with your skills and interests.

**What You Will Do**:

- Below is a sample of some of the projects or work that you might participate in. We do a good job of prioritizing our work, but there is always the opportunity for a new project to come along.
- Support Product engineering crews in writing secure code free from security vulnerabilities
- Develop, document, build example security use cases and develop code to execute security guardrails based on those use cases
- Track vulnerability resolution to completion leveraging engineering crews expertise
- Perform technical security assessments, code reviews, design reviews, or other security testing
- Assist with both manual and automated penetration testing for finding vulnerabilities
- Conduct research to identify new attack vectors

**What You Will Bring**:

- Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering, CIS/MIS, Data Science, or related field
- Proficiency in at least one programming language or technology, including, but not limited to Java, Ruby, Python, Go, Clojure, or similar programming languages
- Solid understanding of software development and engineering concepts and methodologies - SDL
- Highly driven, resourceful, and results oriented - details matter
- Team player with interpersonal skills
- Good analytical and problem solving skills
- Strong communications skills, clear and concise written and spoken communications demonstrating professional judgment

**Projects You Might Lead**:

- Threat Modeling, conduct comprehensive risk assessments to identify potential vulnerabilities and recommend mitigations
- Research new and emerging security technologies, prove new tools or technologies using ML-based detections
- Security Features, work with t