Senior Application Security Engineer ID87004

AgileEngine•West Palm Beach, FL

About The Position

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior Application Security Engineer to strengthen secure coding and DevSecOps practices across engineering teams. The role deploys and tunes SAST, DAST, and IAST tools, conducts threat modeling, and integrates security controls into CI/CD pipelines. The engineer works across programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, and Java, and with cloud infrastructure such as AWS. The position is part of a security organization that enables agile development of secure and reliable applications and products. It involves interpreting scanning results to prioritize remediation of high-risk vulnerabilities, collaborating with technology stakeholders to establish application security metrics, developing automation to improve application security, and ensuring key-system processes are documented, maintained, and archived. The role requires authorization to work for any US employer; the company cannot sponsor or take over employment visa sponsorship.

Requirements

Be authorized to work for any employer in the United States; employer visa sponsorship or takeover is not available.
At least 4 years of hands-on application security experience in a modern software-development environment.
Software engineering foundation and ability to read, understand, and discuss code in Python, JavaScript, Java, or similar languages.
Deep experience deploying, tuning, and interpreting SAST and DAST tools.
Demonstrated experience conducting threat modeling and translating findings into practical security requirements.
Experience integrating security testing and controls into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows.
Working knowledge of AWS or cloud application security, APIs, authentication and authorization, secrets management, and common web-application vulnerabilities.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or Salt.
Ability to prioritize genuine security risks, reduce scanner noise, and drive timely remediation of meaningful vulnerabilities.
Strong communication and influence skills, including explaining complex security issues to engineers, engineering leaders, and nontechnical stakeholders.
Collaborative, solutions-oriented approach and ability to build trust with development teams while improving security without unnecessarily slowing product delivery.
Upper-intermediate English level.

Nice To Haves

IAST experience.
Familiarity with Nessus, Burp, and web application firewalls.
Experience with Static/Dynamic Application Security Testing methodologies and tools.
Experience with automation tools such as Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Salt, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
Experience conducting a detailed threat-model exercise.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, assessing them from a security perspective, and integrating security tools into them.
Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and technologies, preferably AWS.
Collaborative approach to partnering across engineering to establish a security posture.
Results-oriented mindset and commitment to continuous improvement.
Curiosity and willingness to investigate underlying causes.
Effective communication and a solution-oriented mindset.
Strategic thinking, including integrating current initiatives and identifying improvements while meeting business needs.

Responsibilities

Deploy and tune code-scanning solutions, including SAST, DAST, and IAST.
Interpret code-scanning results and focus teams on remediating the highest-risk vulnerabilities.
Perform application threat modeling to identify potential threat vectors that could cause disruption or a data breach.
Collaborate with technology stakeholders to establish metrics demonstrating application security proficiency across engineering teams.
Steer the development of automated tools and other approaches that improve application security and make security gains faster and easier for teams.
Ensure processes associated with key systems are documented, maintained, and archived.