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TemporalTemporalUnited States

Senior Application Security Engineer

Integrates security into product design, conducts threat modeling and risk assessments, manages secure development pipelines, and triages vulnerabilities. Requires 5+ years in app security, Kubernetes expertise, and strong collaboration with engineering teams.

180k – 225k/yr
Remote5+ YOESecurity Engineering

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to integrate security principles into the design and architecture of products.
  • Conduct threat modeling and risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities and potential attack vectors across the full product surface.
  • Manage the Secure Development pipeline including code security and 3rd party library supply chain security.
  • Stay current on emerging standards and guidance (e.g. OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, MCP security specifications) and translate these into actionable internal policy.
  • Triage Bug Bounty findings and responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities.
  • Participate in on-call rotation.

What You’ll Bring

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 5+ years in application or product security or a related role.
  • Proven partnership with engineering teams, bringing security expertise to the planning and development process.
  • Knowledge of encryption, authentication, and secure communication protocols.
  • Familiarity with tools like SAST, DAST, and penetration testing frameworks.
  • Deep understanding of application architecture and design principles, ability to effectively identify vulnerabilities across multiple programming languages.
  • 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.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
  • Expertise in at least one programming language, familiarity with Python and Go.

Nice to Have

  • Distributed computing and related vulnerability experience.
  • Running a Security Champions program.
  • Open Source automation or automation projects.
  • Expertise in other areas of security.
  • Security conference talks or published research.

Compensation

  • Estimated pay range: $180,000 - $225,000, depending on qualifications and location.
  • Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.

Skills

KubernetesRBACSASTDASTPenetration TestingPythonGoOwaspThreat ModelingEncryptionAuthenticationMulti-Tenant Security

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