Application Security Engineer
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Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Act as a Security Champion across product teams, influencing design and engineering decisions to prioritize security from the outset.- Design solutions that are Secure by Design, integrating threat modeling and security requirements into feature architecture and design reviews.
- Promote and enforce Secure Coding standards through CI/CD automation, peer reviews, and development training to reduce vulnerabilities at the source.
- Lead Vulnerability Management & Remediation, overseeing identification, risk-based triage, and tracking of remediation efforts for security issues.
- Develop and maintain standard security packages (e.g., secure configuration baselines, code templates, CI/CD security integrations) for consistent use across engineering teams.
- Conduct and support Penetration Testing, both hands-on and automated to uncover vulnerabilities throughout environments, platforms, and release cycles.
- Enable continuous improvement through Collaboration & Enablement, delivering security knowledge transfer, best practices, and feedback loops across teams.
Requirements
To succeed in this role, you should have
3 - 5 years of hands-on experience in application security (AppSec), DevSecOps, or similar roles.- Software engineer with a keen interest in Security.
- At least 2 years of experience working in an engineering team a plus
- Deep understanding of secure software development lifecycle (SDLC) and first-principles of secure-by-design engineering.
- Skilled in security scanning tools (e.g., SAST, DAST, SCA), incident and remediation workflows, and security automation.
- Proficiency in reading and writing code for Java/Python/JavaScript and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Proven experience with pentesting or red-team engagements, identifying and exploiting application-level vulnerabilities.
- Excellent communication skills, you're able to translate technical risks into actionable steps and help engineers incorporate security improvements.
- Comfortable building trust as a security mentor and champion, raising security maturity across teams with patience and influence.
- Contributions to security tooling/open-source projects.
- OSCP, OSCE, GXPN, or similar offensive security certifications a plus
- Experience with container sec
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