
Application Security Intern
VGS
internship
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: California • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $20 per hour
Job Level
About the role
- Support application security reviews for services, APIs, and new product features across the VGS platform.
- Help identify, validate, and track security findings from static analysis, dependency scanning, container scanning, and other security testing tools.
- Participate in threat modeling and secure design discussions with engineering teams during feature development.
- Help evaluate the security of AI-enabled development workflows, including internal AI systems integrated into the SDLC, by thinking like both an attacker and a defender to identify risks and improve guardrails.
- Assist with manual testing and validation of web application and API security issues, including access control, authentication, input validation, and secrets handling.
- Help improve secure SDLC processes by contributing to developer guidance, secure coding resources, and repeatable review checklists.
- Work with engineers to understand remediation options and clearly document security risks and recommendations.
- Contribute to improving security tooling and guardrails in CI/CD and development workflows.
- Be proactive and innovative; we rely on your feedback to help build a world-class product securely.
- Be a part of a team that believes in transparency, collaboration, grit, and humility, and in doing the right thing for our customers and the company.
Requirements
- Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, or a related field, or have equivalent practical experience.
- Foundational understanding of application security concepts such as the OWASP Top 10, API security, authentication and authorization, secure coding, and common software vulnerabilities.
- Ability to read and reason about code in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, or Go.
- Familiarity with Git, the software development lifecycle, and basic testing or debugging workflows.
- Strong interest in secure software design, cloud-native architectures, and automation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues clearly to both security and engineering stakeholders.
- Curious, collaborative, and excited to learn how security can enable developers rather than slow them down.
- Bonus points if you have exposure to LLMs, threat modeling, Burp Suite, SAST/DAST tools, CI/CD pipelines, Docker/Kubernetes, or cloud environments.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
application securityOWASP Top 10API securityauthenticationauthorizationsecure codingJavaPythonJavaScriptGo
Soft Skills
written communicationverbal communicationcollaborationcuriosityinnovationtransparencygrithumility