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100% REMOTE - Application Security Engineer

STEPS TALENT, LLCUnited States🇺🇸United States

Why this role stands out

Elevate your career by joining this dynamic team where you will tackle high-impact security challenges across infrastructure and cloud environments within a fully remote, flexible work setting. This role is perfect for a proactive security professional or software engineer eager to expand their expertise and drive meaningful innovation in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment. Take the next step in your professional journey and apply today to make a lasting impact.

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior
Work modeRemote
LocationUnited States
AWSOWASPAzureGDPRGoogle CloudHIPAA

Job description

Position: Senior Security Engineer - Application Security

Location: 100% REMOTE

Duration: DIRECT HIRE – FULL TIME

Summary:

This is an opportunity to join our Information Security team as a Senior Security Engineer - Application Security and operate with foresight in protecting our infrastructure, applications, cloud security, and customer trust. As a lean team, we span across multiple areas such as AppSec, CloudSec, SecOps, ITSec, and Compliance and apply it towards reading and interpreting architecture, or planning and building out net new security solutions.

Skills/Experience Needed:

  • 4+ years of professional experience in application, product or software security, operating as an individual contributor, OR as a software engineer that has pivoted into security
  • Strong understanding of application security vulnerabilities and attach techniques, including OWASP Top 10 and API security risks
  • Experience performing manual security testing of modern web applications, APIs and distributed systems
  • Ability to review application architecture and source code for security weaknesses
  • Experience integrating application security tools into modern CI/CD workflows
  • Familiarity with static application security testing, dynamic testing, secrets detection, container security and infrastructure-as-code scanning
  • Understanding of authentication, authorization, session management, cryptography, secrets management and secure API design
  • Strong expertise in cloud technology (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure), modern programming languages, utilization of generative coding utilities, and the security implications of utilizing AI code development utilities.
  • Demonstrated experience researching, establishing, and successfully rolling out enterprise-wide security policies and guidelines.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the development and implementation of robust application security protocols throughout the entire Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
  • Partner with engineering teams to incorporate security into architecture, design, development, testing and deployment
  • Perform hands-on security testing of web applications, APIs, cloud-native services and supporting infrastructure
  • Build and improve automated security testing within CI/CD pipelines, including static analysis, dependency scanning, secrets detection, container scanning and dynamic testing
  • Evaluate effectiveness of application security tools, improve tooling output quality and reduce unnecessary findings and developer friction
  • Develop secure coding standards with developer-focused documentation
  • Contribute application security expertise to vulnerability management, during security incidents/investigations and post-incident reviews
  • Evaluate third party applications, libraries and APIs and integrations for security risk
  • Ensure adherence to relevant healthcare regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR, etc.) across all product lines and systems.

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