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# Lead Application Security Engineer job

- **Company:** Advatix Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $220,000.0 - $320,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Software as a Service, Cloud Computing Security, Data Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Okta, Software Security, Multi-Cloud, Backend, Information Technology
- **Published:** August 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.diversity.com/career/2443282/lead-application-security-engineer

## About the Role

Seeking a security engineer with a computer science background.
Candidate should ideally be an early hire or have experience building security practices from the ground up

Candidate Requirements
Must pass technical interviews and have experience with application security.
Experience with data infrastructure or security-centric companies like Okta is beneficial

Ideal Candidate Profile
Looking for candidates with fast growth, impact, and lead role experience.

Seniority
Minimum of 6 years of experience as a security engineer with deep knowledge of distributed systems

Work experience
Been an early security hire (first 3) at a SaaS product or data infrastructure company
Must have gone from Backend software engineer -> Security engineer

Education
CS, Math, or Physics degree

Hard skills
Expereince securing systems across multi-cloud and/or multi-region infrastructure
Securing multi-tenant platforms: tenant isolation, authorization models, etc
Privacy-adjacent security (PII handling, data residency, GDPR/CCPA technical controls)

## Description

They'll work closely with our VP of Engineering and own application security end-to-end.
Some problems they'll be working on include multi-tenant isolation, sub-tenant access control, cloud security across multi-region/multi-cloud infrastructure, and internet-facing APIs processing 100K+ events/sec


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