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# Staff Application Security Engineer

- **Company:** Aurora Corporation
- **Location:** Dallas, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $171,000.0 - $303,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Build Automation, C++ (Programming Language), Computer Programming, Software Debugging, Programming Tools, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Web Application Frameworks, Software Security, Golang
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=08b34e1b50029fd9

## About the Role

8+ years of experience in security , applications security engineering, or product security roles

 * Substantial experience building and maintaining production software, with strong programming, debugging, and system design skills.
 * Ability to investigate unfamiliar codebases, understand system behavior, and reason about potential misuse.
 * Experience delivering technical work across teams in a large or complex engineering organization.
 * Demonstrated ability to threat model systems, explain technical risks, and tradeoffs clearly and collaborate with engineers on practical solutions.
 * Experience building developer tooling, automation, or software development lifecycle integrations.
 * Practical experience using AI to support technical work, with the judgment to validate its output and explain the underlying reasoning.
 * Experience with languages in our stack: C, C++, Go, Python, JavaScript, and web frameworks.

## Description

Partner with engineering teams on fixes and secure design improvements, contributing code directly.

 * Investigate findings and their practical impact, bringing clear evidence and possible solutions when engaging the responsible teams.
 * Help build and maintain the application security program and its tooling, using AI to scale investigation while validating results.
 * Build automation and integrate preventative controls into the software development lifecycle to reduce recurring risks and friction., Hands-on experience building or maintaining both cloud and embedded systems, ideally with deep technical knowledge of each.
 * Experience developing software for safety-critical products or their supporting infrastructure, particularly autonomous vehicle technology.
 * Application or product security experience, including in-depth code audits, secure design reviews, threat modeling, or vulnerability investigation.
 * Experience building and maintaining production AI-assisted security tooling or automation.


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