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Senior Security Engineer, Application Security

HandshakeRecruitment Platform company
San Francisco, United StatesSenior
Software Engineering

About the role

Build secure systems and tools to enable secure software development.

  • As a Senior Application Security Engineer, you'll play a critical role in protecting Handshake's users and their data.
  • You'll work closely with our engineering, platform, and cloud teams to make the secure way the easy way and embed security directly into how software gets designed, written, and shipped.
  • Key Responsibilities Own and grow key areas of our Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) like threat modeling, security reviews, and vulnerability management.
  • Work collaboratively with and be a trusted partner for engineering teams.
  • Eliminate whole classes of vulnerabilities by building secure by default libraries and tools into our platform.
  • Raise the bar for security awareness by teaching others and sharing your knowledge.
  • Design and build developer facing tooling to help engineers identify and fix security issues before they make it to production.
  • Requirements A builder mindset and experience working on large codebases and safely shipping code to production.
  • Strong understanding of common application security risks (OWASP Top 10) and how to mitigate them.
  • A pragmatic and empathetic approach to security controls that favors guidance over blocking and influence over mandates.
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Tech stack

PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptGoRubyOWASPGoogle CloudDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitLinuxREST API

Match insights

Tech:Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Ruby
Level:Senior
Location:San Francisco, United States