Senior Application Security Engineer
RegionUSA
Job description
Job Description: - Triage, validate, route, and drive remediation of findings from SAST, DAST, SCA, code review, pentests, and bug bounty
- Build automation to remove manual effort from vulnerability-management workflows
- Set scope for external pentests and bug bounty programs, direct testers, judge severity, and close the loop
- Identify patterns across findings and remove root causes
- Establish secure patterns and defaults
- Write custom static analysis rules for organizational anti-patterns
- Review platform-layer controls including authorization, service identity, secrets handling, and gateway enforcement
- Collaborate with owning engineering teams to close security gaps
- Perform hands-on application and API testing and manual code review of high-exposure services
- Conduct threat modeling for new and high-exposure designs
- Provide security enablement across engineering, including a security champions program
Requirements: - Experience running vulnerability management end to end, and automating it with code against scanner, ticketing, and source-control APIs
- Shipped and maintained real software; able to read unfamiliar code quickly, review it rigorously, and reason about architecture and failure modes
- Ownership of problems through remediation, including fixes dependent on other teams
- Code auditing in at least one of Go, Python, Node.js, Ruby, or Java, with willingness to work in the rest
- Practical command of the OWASP Top 10, with real depth in broken access control and business logic flaws
- Experience with SAST, DAST, and SCA in CI/CD
- Cloud fundamentals on GCP or AWS
- Docker and Kubernetes
- Ability to distinguish real findings from theoretical ones
- Ability to influence asynchronously across time zones without a reporting line
- Advanced offensive certifications such as OSWE, BSCP, CPTS, or CRTO are a bonus
Benefits: - Generous compensation in cash and equity
- Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
- Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
- Flexible paid time off and Year-end break
- Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - US and Canada specific
- 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - US and Canada specific
- MacBook Pro delivered to your door
- One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc.
- Monthly meal stipend
- Monthly social meet-up stipend
- Annual health and wellness stipend
- Annual Learning stipend
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