Shield AI
Senior Engineer, Application Security (R6290)
$120K–$190K
San Diego, California · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 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
Develop application security policies and secure-by-default designs for Hivemind Enterprise, and help integrate security scanning into CI/CD and resolve vulnerabilities with developers.
What you'll do
- Define application security policies, configure scanning tools in CI/CD pipelines, and review scan results with developers.
- Identify and help fix security issues in code.
- Perform threat modeling and work with architecture teams to validate secure designs and 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 and familiarity with threat modeling.
- Experience with software analysis tools, including static and dynamic analysis, dependency mapping, and CVE scanning.
- Comfortable in a Linux development environment; understanding of modern software engineering practices and basic cryptography concepts.
Nice to have
- Application security experience on a large, complex software product; DevSecOps experience, especially in a GitLab environment.
- Experience writing or testing Python, C/C++, and/or Go; red-teaming or software reverse engineering skills.
Pay
USD 120,000–190,000 per-year-salary; base salary
Tools
Hivemind Enterprise, CI/CD, Linux, GitLab, Python, C/C++, Go
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