[Remote] Senior Application Security Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Beyond Finance helps everyday Americans escape debt through individualized care, compliance-focused services, user-centric technology, and customized financial solutions. The Senior Application Security Engineer will own and advance the application security program by partnering with engineering teams, improving security tooling and automation, and embedding secure practices across applications, cloud infrastructure, and development workflows.
Responsibilities
- Lead and evolve the company's application security strategy, roadmap, and day-to-day operations
- Serve as the primary AppSec partner for numerous dev teams working on Ruby on Rails web apps, React Native mobile apps, and various other projects including Python and Go
- Provide security guidance during design, development, and code review for new features and projects
- Drive adoption of secure coding practices and threat-modeling across engineering teams
- Manage and optimize existing AppSec tooling, including:
- GitHub Advanced Security (SAST, SCA, Secret Scanning)
- Invicti (DAST)
- Hadrian (ASM)
- AppDome (mobile application security)
- Cloudflare WAF
- Improve automation and integration of security tools into CI/CD pipelines
- Identify and implement additional tools or processes to strengthen the security posture
- Build and maintain secure development standards, playbooks, and training materials
- Partner with engineering teams during sprint planning and feature design to proactively address risks
- Conduct security reviews, code assessments, and vulnerability triage with development teams
- Work with DevOps to ensure secure AWS infrastructure deployments and configurations
- Contribute to hardening efforts across ECS, IAM, networking, and supporting cloud services
- Assist in designing and maintaining secure CI/CD workflows
- Lead or support investigation and remediation of application-level vulnerabilities
- Monitor, prioritize, and track findings from SAST/DAST/ASM tools
- Collaborate with engineering to ensure timely and effective remediation
Skills
- 3-7+ years of experience in Application Security, Product Security, or related engineering roles
- Strong understanding of secure coding practices, common vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10), and modern SDLC
- Experience working with cloud-native applications, ideally in AWS
- Understanding of SSL certificates & cryptographic key management
- Hands-on experience with SAST, DAST, WAFs, and/or mobile application security tools
- Ability to partner effectively with developers and influence secure design decisions
- Familiarity with GitHub-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines
- Development experience with Ruby on Rails or similar dynamic languages
- Knowledge of AWS ECS/EKS, container security, secrets management and infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation, Terraform)
- Experience building or maturing an AppSec program from early stages
- SOAR Automation & Scripting experience
- Experience working in a PCI-compliant environment working with annual reporting needs
Benefits
- Eligible full-time employees receive considerable employer contributions for health, dental, and vision programs
- Generous PTO, paid holidays, and paid parental leave
- 401(k) matching program
- Merit advancement opportunities
- Career development & training
- An uplifting, collaborative work environment
- An environment of community, connection, and belonging across the entire organization
- Annual bonus
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