Staff Application Security Engineer

Temporal Technologies

7d • $144,000 - $236,250

About The Position

Join Temporal as a Staff Application Security Engineer and help secure its development pipeline, product, and customer execution environment. Work closely with software engineering teams and customers to embed security into the platform across multiple clouds, and build production-ready AI-assisted security workflows with appropriate guardrails. The role calls for a trusted security partner who enables engineering teams to build and ship securely.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least 7 years of experience in application security, product security, or a related role.
• Proven ability to partner with engineering teams and bring security expertise into planning and development.
• Ability to write production-quality code in at least one programming language, with development experience beyond simple scripting.
• Knowledge of encryption, authentication, and secure communication protocols.
• Familiarity with SAST, DAST, and penetration testing frameworks.
• Deep understanding of application architecture and design principles, and ability to identify vulnerabilities across multiple programming languages.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex security concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Kubernetes security posture management and auditing, including workload hardening, RBAC design, and admission control.
• Demonstrated experience with multi-tenant security architecture, including data plane isolation, control plane hardening, and cross-tenant data leakage prevention.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with distributed computing and related vulnerabilities.
• Familiarity with Go.
• Experience running a Security Champions program.
• Open Source automation or automation projects.
• Expertise in other areas of security.
• Security conference talks or published research.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to integrate security principles into product design and architecture.
• Lead complex threat modeling and risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities and attack vectors across the product surface.
• Drive security strategy, influence architecture, and set direction across multiple teams or organization-wide.
• Manage the secure development pipeline, including code security and third-party library supply-chain security.
• Monitor emerging standards and guidance, such as the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs and MCP security specifications, and translate them into actionable internal policy.
• Own responsibility for disclosed vulnerabilities in Cloud and Open Source products.
• Participate in an on-call rotation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior