Shield AI
Senior Engineer, Application Security (R6290)
San Diego, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- Approximately 5+ years with a Bachelor’s degree, or approximately 4+ years with a Master’s degree.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in cybersecurity, software engineering, or a closely related technical field.
About the job
Secures the Hivemind Enterprise software product by defining application security practices, integrating security tools into development pipelines, and helping teams design and build secure software.
What you'll do
- Define application security policies, configure scanning tools in CI/CD pipelines, review findings, and work with developers to remediate issues.
- Work with the architecture team on secure-by-default design and perform threat modeling.
- Validate designs against secure coding standards.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree with approximately 5+ years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree with approximately 4+ years, in cybersecurity, software engineering, or a closely related technical field.
- Experience developing or testing cyber secure code; familiarity with threat modeling and software analysis tools.
- Strong understanding of software engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, configuration management, and software lifecycle processes.
- Comfort working in Linux; basic understanding of key cryptography concepts; strong organizational, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Nice to have
- Application security experience on a large, complex software product; DevSecOps experience, especially in a GitLab environment.
- Experience writing software or testing Python, C/C++, and/or Go; red-teaming or software reverse engineering skills.
Tools
CI/CD, Linux, GitLab, Python, C/C++, Go
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