# Cybersecurity Intern

**Company**: PayPal
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $32 - $55 Hourly
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

PayPal’s Cyber & Information Security (PCIS) team is looking for self-driven, detail-oriented Cybersecurity interns who will be aligned to specific security and risk teams.

As a PayPal Cybersecurity Intern, you will get the opportunity to work closely with a variety of security and risk teams, business partners, and stakeholders to drive high impact security and risk technology and services.

Your day-to-day role may include:

- Implement and test Next Gen platform security products as part of SDLC to enable PayPal's product development.

- Perform quality code reviews to validate against the secure coding guidelines, ensuring that the code conforms to the design.

- Drive vulnerability analysis and remediation.

- Identify, drive, and implement security process improvements.

- Collaborate closely with engineers, developers, security architects, product managers, program managers, and other teams to deliver high-quality products.

- Stay up to date with the latest security trends, technologies, vulnerabilities, and attacks, and incorporate this knowledge into threat models.

- Determine the impact of vulnerabilities in our environment and how to communicate them to stakeholders across the company.

You will also work on risk-related tasks, including:

- Understanding and applying the enterprise policies, standards and framework for governance, risk & compliance.

- Executing based on the Enterprise Risk Management standard on how to identify, assess, mitigate, monitor, test and report on risks and controls.

- Working with different stakeholders and external auditors to maintain up-to-date documentation for scoping, testing, and remediation of risks and controls.

To be successful in this role, you should have:

- Passion for cybersecurity and learning through asking questions and experimenting with different approaches.

- Willingness to collaborate with team members and communicate effectively within a professional setting.

- Ability to take initiative and seek out opportunities to expand your knowledge and skills.

- Basic understanding of secure coding practices and common security vulnerabilities.

- Experience with at least one programming language.

- Interest in learning about application security, including security tools.

The base pay for this role will depend on where you work and the relevant experience and expertise you bring. The expected range of pay for this role by location is:

- San Jose, California: $32 - $55 Hourly

- Austin, Texas: $28 - $49 Hourly

- Chicago, Illinois: $28 - $49 Hourly

- Scottsdale, Arizona: $27 - $46 Hourly

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## Skills

### Required
- secure coding practices
- programming languages
- application security
- risk management

### Nice to have
- security tools
- threat models
- vulnerability analysis

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