Apollo.io
Senior Application Security Engineer
$190K–$273K
Remote, United States +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Location
- Remote, United States
United States - Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering or application security experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants outside the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.
About the job
Strengthen Apollo’s secure software development lifecycle and reduce application risk across product, platform, and AI-powered features.
What you'll do
- Conduct application security reviews, threat modeling, code analysis, and offensive testing; guide or implement durable vulnerability fixes.
- Improve AppSec tooling, vulnerability workflows, and automation, and track findings through remediation and verification.
- Enable engineering teams and partner across functions on secure design, AI security controls, and security processes.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of software engineering or application security experience, with hands-on AppSec depth in modern SaaS environments.
- Strong software development skills, including ability to read, write, and ship production code.
- Strong Linux and cloud fundamentals; deep familiarity with AppSec issues, secure design, vulnerability management, and developer security tooling.
- Experience with penetration testing, code review, findings through closure, AI-assisted process improvements, and securing AI-powered systems.
Nice to have
- Experience reviewing AI-native products, internal agents, or AI-assisted engineering workflows.
- Experience with secure-by-design practices, AppSec observability, developer enablement, or relevant security certifications.
Pay
$218,600 — $273,200 USD (total cash compensation, inclusive of annual base salary and annual bonus as applicable); $190,100 — $237,600 USD (total cash compensation, inclusive of annual base salary and annual bonus as applicable)
Tools
Ruby, Python, Linux, GCP, SAST
AI focus
Use AI to scale security and engineering processes, validate AI-assisted outputs, and build security checks and controls for AI-powered systems and features.
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