Senior Application Security Engineer
Skills
About the Role
You will embed with product and infrastructure engineering teams to shape how security is integrated into the architecture. You will perform security reviews, conduct threat modeling and security assessments for new features, and audit existing products to surface vulnerabilities. You will build and improve automated tooling to find code issues before and after deployment, define application guardrails to enable secure-by-default development, and investigate and remediate security issues and incidents.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in application or product security
- Strong understanding of web, mobile, and cryptographic security fundamentals (OWASP Top Ten, SANS/CWE Top 25)
- Proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, and Rust
- Hands-on experience with security testing tools and methodologies (static analysis, dynamic analysis, penetration testing)
- Strong understanding of cloud, containerized, and runtime environments (AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity and applying hands-on engineering to security challenges
Responsibilities
- Embed with product and infrastructure teams to integrate security into design and development
- Participate in implementation efforts
- Perform security reviews
- Help make product design decisions secure
- Audit and surface vulnerabilities in current products
- Conduct threat modeling and security assessments
- Develop and improve automated security tooling
- Define and build application guardrails for secure-by-default development
- Investigate and remediate security issues and incidents
- Promote secure development practices across engineering
Benefits
- Full benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, HSA/FSA, and 401(k)
- Paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- $3,000 per year learning and development budget
- Multiple team offsites per year
- Company MacBook Pro laptop
- Lunch stipend for employees physically in the New York City office