Application Security Engineer

Responsibilities

• Participate in security design reviews and threat modeling exercises for new products, services, and platform capabilities.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify security risks and recommend practical mitigations during the design and development process.
• Serve as a security consultant for product and engineering teams, answering security questions and providing guidance on secure implementation patterns.
• Review application and system architectures, technical designs, data flows, and deployment models to identify security risks and recommend secure design patterns
• Partner with engineering teams developing AI and machine learning features to identify emerging security risks and recommend secure implementation patterns.
• Help maintain and improve security standards, guidance, reference architectures, and internal documentation.
• Develop or enhance tooling and automation that improve the efficiency of threat modeling, security reviews, and risk assessment processes.
• Collaborate with other Product Security engineers to perform application security assessments and investigate security concerns identified during development.
• Contribute to developer education efforts through documentation, office hours, workshops, or security awareness initiatives.
• Support security incident investigations and root cause analysis when application security issues are discovered.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Available to work until 11:00AM Pacific Standard Time (PST).
• 5+ years of experience in Application Security, Product Security, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of common application security vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10, API Security, authentication, authorization, secrets management, cryptography, etc.).
• Experience participating in security reviews, threat modeling exercises, architecture discussions, or application security assessments.
• Strong technical writing skills and experience creating documentation and guidelines.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain security concepts to engineers with varying levels of security expertise.
• Experience working collaboratively with software engineering teams to identify and address security risks.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and modern application architectures (AWS preferred).
• Ability to assess risk, prioritize issues, and provide practical security recommendations.
• Experience reading and understanding source code in one or more modern programming languages.
• Experience building scripts, tools, or automation to improve engineering or security workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with threat modeling methodologies such as STRIDE or similar frameworks.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools, AI-powered applications, or emerging AI security considerations.
• Experience creating technical documentation, security guidance, or developer-facing educational content.
• Exposure to security tooling such as SAST, DAST, SCA, IaC scanning, or vulnerability management platforms.

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