
Senior Application Security Engineer
Stellar Development Foundation
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $170,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Orchestrate Scanning: Own the end-to-end lifecycle of our security stack (Wiz/Orca, Trivy/Grype, Semgrep/CodeQL, and Socket). You’ll manage schedules, tune outputs to reduce noise, and partner with engineering to drive remediation.
- Manual Assessments: Conduct deep-dive security reviews of SDF codebases, APIs, and infrastructure configurations on a regular cadence.
- Supply Chain & SBOMs: Monitor dependencies for newly disclosed CVEs using Dependabot and Socket; maintain and automate our Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) workflows.
- Third-Party Audits: Manage external audits from scoping to final report—handling info-sharing, findings intake, and public-facing remediation summaries.
- Incident Leadership: Act as the lead for security incidents: managing triage, containment, forensics, and stakeholder communication through to resolution.
- Detection Engineering: Dig through logs and investigate anomalies in the SIEM. You will write, tune, and maintain detection rules to ensure our alert library remains relevant and actionable.
- Forensics & Hunting: Perform deep-dive forensic work (log reconstruction, lateral movement analysis) and run proactive threat-hunting exercises based on current intel.
- Operational Readiness: Maintain IR playbooks and detection runbooks, ensuring they are updated with "hard-won" learnings after every significant event.
- Bug Bounty Orchestration: Manage SDF’s programs on HackerOne and Immunefi. You’ll triage submissions, calculate CVSS scores, coordinate with engineering for validation, and manage researcher payouts.
- Community Engagement: Represent SDF in community forums and at conferences, sharing insights derived from real operational work rather than hypotheticals.
- Developer Enablement: Write and maintain "paved road" security guidance for Stellar and Soroban developers, including secure coding standards and threat model templates.
Requirements
- The 10-Year Veteran: You have a decade of experience across SecOps, AppSec, or Detection Engineering, with a proven track record of owning high-volume security programs.
- The SIEM Expert: You are proficient in writing complex detection logic and managing alert fatigue in platforms like Splunk, Elastic, or Chronicle.
- The Battle-Tested Responder: You’ve led high-pressure incidents through the entire lifecycle, from initial "bump in the night" to the final post-mortem.
- Cloud Native: You are comfortable auditing AWS environments (IAM, VPC, Logging) using tools like Prowler, Steampipe, or Cloud-native APIs.
- Tech Stack Proficient: You have hands-on experience with the modern security stack: Wiz, Semgrep, CodeQL, tfsec, and osquery.
- Communication Pro: You can translate a complex exploit into a clear risk assessment for leadership and a "how-to-fix" guide for engineers.
- Bonus points if you have experience with the Stellar protocol, XDR, Horizon API, or the Soroban (Rust/WASM) smart contract ecosystem.
- Deep knowledge of eBPF-based runtime detection (Falco/Cilium).
- Experience in Formal Verification or advanced smart contract auditing.
- Active contributions to open-source security projects or published research.
Benefits
- Competitive health, dental & vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee + any dependents
- Flexible time off + 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break
- Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for both non-birthing and birthing parents, as well as up to 14 weeks of paid pregnancy leave for birthing parents
- Gym reimbursement ($80 per month)
- Life & ADD (up to $50K)
- Short & Long term disability
- 401K with 4% match
- Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts
- Commuter benefits with $250/month employer contribution
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with monthly employer contribution
- Family building benefits through Kindbody
- Wellbeing benefits (One Medical, Rightway, Headspace)
- L&D budget of $1,500/year
- Daily lunch and snacks in office
- Company retreats
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
SecOpsAppSecDetection Engineeringdetection logicforensicsthreat huntingauditingformal verificationsmart contract auditingeBPF
Soft Skills
incident managementcommunicationcommunity engagementdeveloper enablement