Cybersecurity Engineer

API Security

Job Summary

Themission of the individual in this role is to leverage their understanding ofenterprise security practices to help mitigate cybersecurity risk. They willwork with the CBRE business, Digital and Technology, and other partnerorganizations (Compliance, Risk Mgmt., Audit, and Legal) to integrate securityprocesses, tools, and people into the business culture, contributing to aholistic security ecosystem and supporting continuous improvements inprotection and monitoring capabilities globally. Executes on assignedinitiatives and contributes to problem resolution as part of a collaborativesecurity team.

Experiencein all skills listed is not necessary to be qualified for the position. If youhave relevant similar experience, we still want to talk to you.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Implementand maintain security controls for API environments, including REST, GraphQL,gRPC, and event-driven interfaces across cloud and hybrid deployments
ConductAPI security assessments, threat modeling,



and attack surface analysis,covering authentication gaps, injection risk, excessive data exposure, andbroken authorization patterns
Supportthe implementation of API authentication and authorization standards, includingOAuth 2.0, OIDC, mTLS, and API key lifecycle management
Configureand maintain API gateway security policies covering rate limiting, inputvalidation, payload inspection, anomaly detection, and traffic routing controls
Supportsecurity design reviews and operational controls for Model Context Protocol(MCP) server implementations, addressing tool permission scoping, promptinjection risk, Sampling and Elicitation primitive controls, and agenticworkflow safeguards
IntegrateAPI and MCP security scanning into CI/CD pipelines for shift-left discovery ofsecrets, authentication gaps, and insecure API patterns
Contributeto API security governance documentation, gate compliance checklists, andsecurity design patterns aligned to en

📌 Associate Software Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Cbre
📍 Hyderabad