CharterUP
Senior Application Security Engineer
$150K–$180K
Austin, Texas +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Location
- Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas, United States - Experience
- 5+ years in software engineering or security, including 3+ years in application or product security.
About the job
Leads application security for CharterUP’s platform by building security tooling and setting standards, while reviewing designs and code and driving vulnerability remediation.
What you'll do
- Own security tooling and vulnerability management across scanning, secret detection, and penetration testing.
- Lead threat modeling, security design reviews, and targeted code reviews for high-risk systems.
- Strengthen AWS security and scale secure practices through reusable tools, automation, and developer guardrails.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering skills in Java and/or TypeScript, including production-grade security tooling and automation.
- Deep application security expertise, including threat modeling, secure design, authentication, authorization, access control, injection, SSRF, and manual code review.
- Hands-on AWS and cloud-native security experience, including IAM, multi-account architecture, containerized workloads, CI/CD security, and vulnerability management.
- Strong technical judgment and ability to set standards, prioritize risk, and drive remediation across teams.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with SOC 2, PCI DSS, and GDPR.
Pay
$150,000 — $180,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Java, TypeScript, AWS, IAM, CI/CD, SAST
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