Senior Application Security Engineer

As a member of the Application Security team, you will help prevent and mitigate vulnerabilities by collaborating with the rest of the organization and contributing product security enhancements. You will represent the organization to external security researchers via our Bug Bounty program, use a variety of tools to identify and manage application vulnerabilities, perform risk assessments, and work with developers to prevent security problems before they happen. This position will require a close working relationship with our development teams and their management to be successful. This is a highly visible role in the company to ensure that Recurly remains ahead of emerging application threats.

Technology/Services you will use:

Programming Languages (Ruby, Go, Rust, JavaScript), Cloud Armor WAF, Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) tools, Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools, Bug Bounty Programs, Containers, Git and similar.

The Application Security team shares the following responsibilities. The ideal candidate will be flexible and prepared to contribute across all of these areas as needed:

Manage the end-to-end engineering and integration of AI/ML-driven security solutions into our DevSecOps pipeline and existing application security processes to maximize efficiency and coverage

Architect, build, and maintain the infrastructure and tooling necessary to successfully deploy and operate new AI-powered security capabilities

Proactively evaluate, pilot, and champion innovative ways to leverage artificial intelligence for vulnerability detection, threat modeling, and risk assessment optimization

Use threat modeling to provide security guidance to Engineers

Deliver secure development training

Complete security code reviews of new features and bug fixes

Complete security assessments of new products, services, and vendors

Perform risk assessments to add items to the security backlog and prioritize that backlog

Triage, reproduce, and work with application teams to fix bug bounty and pentest findings

Review security posture and roadmap, make suggestions, and bring new ideas to the table

Implement tooling into the DevSecOps pipeline to automate security testing

Coordinate with SecOps to ensure that incident response plans for application-related incidents are up-to-date and valid

Respond to incidents for high severity application vulnerabilities

Implement Product Security features to increase the overall security of the application

Triage and manage the results of automated scanning tools

Conduct penetration tests on significant code changes being released