
Application Security Engineer
North
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $105,000 - $140,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Perform architecture and security reviews on highly complex products to identify vulnerabilities.
- Work with development teams to integrate software security design patterns throughout the application lifecycle.
- Ensure critical application design and implementation decisions are based on sound security patterns.
- Facilitate analytics process for application abuse detection.
- Support application protection efforts, incident response and fraud.
- Find security threats and vulnerabilities in applications and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Participate in evaluation, deployment and operations of innovative security solutions.
- Conduct static and dynamic application security testing (SAST/DAST), code reviews, security assessments and evaluations.
- Implement and manage security tools, including SAST, DAST, Software Composition Analysis (SCA), and other security scanning solutions.
- Drive the implementation of authentication, authorization, and access control mechanisms for APIs and platforms.
- Partner with application development, engineering and operations teams to ensure a security-first approach in CI/CD pipelines.
- Work closely with the offensive security team to help identify, uncover and validate weakness and exposures in critical applications.
- Support incident response efforts and mitigations related to application security vulnerabilities and weaknesses.
- Provide security awareness training and guidance to development teams on secure coding practices.
- Lead implementation of strategic security initiatives that improve application security across the organization.
- Ensure application security practices align with regulatory standards such as PCI-DSS, NIST, and OWASP guidelines.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or relevant equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience in application security, secure software development, and vulnerability management.
- Experience with containerization technologies, the principles of container operation, and implementing secure operational states for containerization technologies.
- Direct experience with security tools such as vulnerability scanners, DAST and SAST solutions, application testing tools, and application analysis tools.
- Strong knowledge of secure coding practices and common security vulnerabilities.
- Familiarity with DevSecOps principles and integrating security into CI/CD pipelines.
- Understanding of regulatory frameworks and compliance requirements (e.g., PCI-DSS, NIST, OWASP etc)
- Comfortable with scripting and automation using languages such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
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Hard Skills & Tools
application securitysecure software developmentvulnerability managementstatic application security testing (SAST)dynamic application security testing (DAST)software composition analysis (SCA)secure coding practicesscriptingautomationcontainerization technologies
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationanalytical thinkingproblem-solvingtrainingguidance