Staff Application Security Engineer

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to integrate security principles into the design and architecture of products.
• Lead complex threat modeling and risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities and potential attack vectors across the full product surface.
• Drive strategy, influence architecture, and set direction for security across multiple teams or org-wide.
• Manage the Secure Development pipeline including code security and 3rd party library supply chain security.
• Stay current on emerging standards and guidance (e.g. OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, MCP security specifications) and translate these into actionable internal policy.
• Own responsibility disclosed vulnerabilities in both Cloud and Open Source products.
• Able to participate in on-call rotation.

Applications Security, Software Engineering, Software Engineering, Sales Pipeline, Applications Security, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Product Engineering, Threat Modeling, Threat and risk analysis (TRA), * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• 7+ years in application or product security or a related role.
• Proven partnership with engineering teams, bringing security expertise to the planning and development process.
• Ability to write production-quality code in at least one programming language, with a history of development beyond simple scripting.
• Knowledge of encryption, authentication, and secure communication protocols.
• Familiarity with tools like SAST, DAST, and penetration testing frameworks.
• A deep understanding of application architecture and design principles, ability to effectively identify vulnerabilities across multiple programming languages
• Excellent communication and ability to explain complex security concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Kubernetes security posture management and auditing, including workload hardening, RBAC design, and admission control.
• Demonstrated experience with multi-tenant security architecture, including data plane isolation, control plane hardening, and cross-tenant data leakage prevention.

Nice to Have

• Distributed computing and related vulnerability experience.
• Familiarity with Go.
• Running a Security Champions program.
• Open Source automation or automation projects.
• Expertise in other areas of security.
• Security conference talks or published research.

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