Lead Application Security Engineer – DevSecOps
Job Description:
- Socialize and drive execution of key security best practices across the R&D organization
- Contribute to the enterprise security catalog of best practices, techniques, and patterns
- Improve the quality and adoption of Security Development Lifecycle practices
- Own the evaluation, design, implementation, integration, reliability, and continuous improvement of application security capabilities
- Support SAST, SCA, DAST, API security testing, and vulnerability management workflows
- Document, share, and help automate coverage for common abuse cases and attacks
- Lead the API security testing program
- Manage API discovery, authenticated and unauthenticated testing, scanner attribution, onboarding, exclusions, ownership mapping, findings routing, and operational readiness
- Identify and explain feature-level design or architectural weaknesses that could create security issues
- Partner with enterprise security leadership to track and prioritize open issues and follow through on resolution
- Work with DevOps, Infrastructure, IAM, API Gateway, NOC, Enterprise Security, and application teams to design and operate security-hardened platforms
- Set technical strategy, influence stakeholders, and define measurable security outcomes
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cyber Security, or similar, or equivalent experience
- At least 3 years of experience as a software developer
- 3–5 years in a security-focused development role in an agile environment
- Experience in software and product design and architecture, product security, and security issue prevention and mitigation
- Strong software engineering background
- Ability to develop, review, and troubleshoot code in one or more languages
- Practical experience with Docker and Terraform
- Strong knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, SAML, and service-to-service authentication
- Solid understanding of RESTful services, service bus architectures, JSON, and related web services concepts
- Experience with SAST, SCA, DAST, API security testing, vulnerability aggregation, and CI/CD security controls
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, containers, infrastructure as code, secrets management, and CI/CD
- Knowledge of HIPAA, HITRUST, and PCI-DSS is a plus
Benefits:
- Health and financial benefits
- Commuter support
- Employee assistance programs
- Tuition assistance
- Employee resource groups
- Collaborative workspaces
- Flexible work arrangements and work-life balance support
- Company events including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons
- Learning-focused company culture
- Engaged team support
- Inclusive environment
- Annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans (depending on role eligibility)