Staff Application Security Engineer

What you'll do

• Collaborate with engineering teams on fixes and secure design improvements, contributing code directly.
• Investigate security findings, assess their practical impact, and present evidence and solutions to responsible teams.
• Build security automation and tooling, integrate preventative controls into the software development lifecycle, and use AI to support investigations while validating results.

What they ask for

• Substantial experience building and maintaining production software, with strong programming, debugging, and system design skills.
• Ability to investigate unfamiliar codebases, assess system behavior and potential misuse, and threat model systems.
• Experience delivering technical work across teams in a large or complex engineering organization and collaborating with engineers on practical security solutions.
• Experience building developer tooling, automation, or software development lifecycle integrations; practical AI use with the judgment to validate outputs.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with both cloud and embedded systems, ideally with deep technical knowledge of each.
• Experience with safety-critical products or infrastructure, autonomous vehicles, application or product security, or production AI-assisted security tooling.

Pay

USD 189,000 - USD 303,000 per year (base salary); USD 171,000 - USD 273,000 per year (base salary)

Tools

C, C++, Go, Python, JavaScript, web frameworks

AI focus

Use AI to scale security investigation and support technical work; validate its results and build or maintain AI-assisted security tooling or automation.