Application Security Engineer

Hark • San Jose, CA

2d • $150,000 - $300,000

About The Position

We're hiring a Member of Technical Staff (Application Security Engineer) to own the security of the software Hark ships. You'll review design and code, find and fix vulnerabilities in our backend services, mobile apps, and third-party integrations, and build the guardrails that let engineers move fast without shipping bugs. Our agents act on behalf of users across their apps and data, so you'll also be defining how to secure LLM and agent systems, a space with very few established playbooks.
This role is hands-on; you'll be reading code, writing fixes, and building tooling, not managing or auditing.

Requirements

• 4–8 years of hands-on application or product security engineering experience.
• Strong software engineering skills; you can read, write, and ship production code (Go strongly preferred; Python, TypeScript, Swift, or Kotlin also valuable).
• Deep understanding of web and API vulnerability classes (OWASP Top 10, SSRF, IDOR/BOLA, authz flaws, injection) and how to fix them at the root.
• Hands-on experience with OAuth 2.0 / OIDC, session management, and securing multi-tenant systems.
• Experience running secure code review and threat modeling in a fast-moving engineering org.
• Experience turning scanner and runtime findings into fixes using tools like Wiz Code, Wiz Cloud, and Datadog SIEM (or equivalent SAST/SCA, CNAPP, and SIEM tools).
• Real curiosity about LLM and agent security; this is new territory and we want someone excited to figure it out.

Nice To Haves

• Experience at a security-forward product company (Stripe, Coinbase, Discord, Roblox, Netflix) or an offensive security consultancy (Trail of Bits, Bishop Fox, NCC Group).
• Mobile application security experience (iOS/Android).
• Prior work on LLM/agent threat modeling, prompt injection defenses, or AI red teaming.
• Bug bounty, CVE, or open source security contributions.

Responsibilities

• Threat-model new features and services, with a focus on agent/LLM attack surfaces (prompt injection, tool misuse, data exfiltration, cross-tenant access).
• Review code and designs for Hark's backend services (primarily Go), APIs, and mobile apps; fix vulnerabilities directly when it's faster than filing a ticket.
• Secure authentication, authorization, and session handling across our consumer product, including OAuth integrations with third-party platforms.
• Build and tune SAST, dependency, and secrets scanning in CI so findings are high-signal and developers actually act on them.
• Triage and remediate findings from pentests and our vulnerability disclosure program.
• Partner with engineering to embed security into the development lifecycle through paved roads, secure defaults, and reusable libraries.

Benefits

• The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $150,000 - $300,000 annually.
• The total compensation package may also include additional components and benefits depending on the specific role. This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed