
Staff Application Security Engineer
Webflow
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United States
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Salary
💰 $164,000 - $247,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Collaborate with the Webflow engineering team to secure Webflow’s web application platform and ecosystem.
- Bring security best practices to the software development lifecycle.
- Champion security standards while balancing business strategies and requirements.
- Support Webflow’s security compliance frameworks
- Find security vulnerabilities through grey-box techniques
- Propose solutions at the architecture and code level.
- Contribute code and architecture improvements to enable security within Webflow’s application.
- Cross-train entry and mid-level application security engineers.
Requirements
- BA/BS degree or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of application security experience
- Hands-on software development experience
- Technical authority in securing high-complexity, large-scale applications
- Deep expertise in secure software design, secure coding, and modern web application security
- Proven ability to identify security design flaws and complex business-logic vulnerabilities
- Experience leading threat modeling efforts
- Conduct and oversee advanced penetration testing
- Manage third-party pentests
- Designed, implemented, and evolved software supply chain security programs
- Owned or led bug bounty programs and major security tooling initiatives
- Implemented and improved Secure Development Lifecycle (SDLC) processes at scale
- Driven multi-quarter application security roadmaps and complex security programs
- Led security initiatives within large-scale solutions
- Experience using and building security solutions that leverage agentic AI
- Participated in and led response efforts for application security incidents
- Actively mentor and elevate other application security engineers
- Passion for security and continuous learning
- Ability to explain complex security concepts clearly.
Benefits
- Ownership in what you help build.
- Health coverage that actually covers you.
- Support for every stage of family life.
- Time off that’s actually off.
- Wellness for the whole you.
- Invest in your future.
- Monthly stipends that flex with your life.
- Bonus for building together.
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Hard Skills & Tools
application securitysecure software designsecure codingpenetration testingthreat modelingSecure Development Lifecycle (SDLC)bug bounty programssoftware supply chain securitysecurity vulnerabilitiesagentic AI
Soft Skills
collaborationleadershipmentoringcommunicationproblem-solvingcontinuous learningbalancing business strategiesexplaining complex concepts
Certifications
BA/BS degree