The Senior Application Security Engineer is responsible for ensuring the security of an organization's products throughout their lifecycle. This role also consults with security adjacent stakeholders and business units to provide suggestions, education, guidance and feedback from a security perspective.

Risk Assessment and Mitigation: Perform threat modelling application design solutions and vulnerability assessments to identify relevant risks, security gaps or risks in product design and development.

Implement security tooling and automation to scale the Application Security team's practices. Advocate for and integrate security best practices in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Conduct code reviews, penetration testing, and static/dynamic analysis. Security Architecture and Development: Working with product and engineering teams to design, program development, software development and implement security controls and protections within the product via automation. This task ensures the product is built with security in mind from the ground up. Integrate security tools and technologies into the CI/CD pipeline (e.g., static and agile application security testing (SAST/DAST), software composition analysis (SCA), and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) scanning).

Planning, Collaboration and Training: Product roadmap planning with key stakeholders, collaboration with cross functional teams to develop mitigation strategies. Working closely and mentor Product, Engineering, and IT teams for security best practices. Provide security training and awareness for developers and stakeholders.





Maintain documentation of security controls and processes. Prepare reports on security risks and mitigation efforts for management and regulatory bodies. 5+ years of experience in an application security role.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- Experience leading architectural changes or complex cross team efforts to mitigate security vulnerabilities.
- Amazon AWS Services, MS Azure and their capabilities;
- Securing web applications;
- Experience with frameworks such as OWASP Top 10, SAST/DAST tools, and CI/CD pipelines.

Fluency in Python, React, and Django Rest Framework.

Experience with manual source code review, and embedding security to code in production environments.

Experience with deploying application security tools in the CI/CD pipeline.

Experience with securing software development lifecycle including building programs. that eliminate full classes of vulnerabilities.

It would be even better if you also had...

Experience in IoT, embedded systems, or mobile app security.

Knowledge of regulatory and compliance standards (e.g., H&R; Block does not tolerate discrimination based on a person's race, color, religion, ancestry, age, sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions and sex-based stereotypes and transgender status), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, service in the Armed Forces, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status or any other status protected by law.

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