Application Security Engineer
Application Security Engineer building and tuning the security judgment layer for a cybersecurity platform, integrating tooling, reducing noise, and partnering with product and engineering teams.
About the job
Key Responsibilities
- Own the integration, configuration, and output quality of security tooling that powers our platform
- Tune outputs to maximize signal and minimize noise — decide what to surface, what to suppress, and what to enrich
- Design rules, severity scoring, and triage flows that make findings actionable rather than overwhelming
- Build the security judgment layer on top of underlying tooling — context-aware prioritization and exploitability reasoning
- Partner with engineers on how findings are presented in the UI and how remediation flows work
- Work with PM and design on roadmap priorities, providing the security expertise that drives what to build next
- Review and shape architectural choices that affect security outcomes
- Engage with customers directly to understand how they use the platform and what's blocking adoption
- Benchmark our output quality against competitors and close gaps where they exist
- Contribute back to the open source security tooling we depend on where it makes sense
Qualifications
- 5+ years of application security experience, with significant time shipping security products
- Strong programming skills in at least one of Go, Python, or TypeScript
- Hands-on experience tuning security tooling for production use — reducing false positives, building suppression logic, designing severity models
- Understanding of vulnerability research, CVE/CWE taxonomies, and exploit reasoning
- Experience determining what makes a security finding actionable vs. just technically true
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working directly with customers
- Pragmatic approach to building things fast without unnecessarily complicating things
- Experience thriving in a fast-moving, start-up engineering environment
Nice-to-Haves
- Prior experience shipping a security product at a vendor
- Contributions to open source security tooling
- Offensive security background or OSCP / similar certifications
- Hands-on experience with LLM agents, tool use, or autonomous AI systems
Skills
Application Security, Go, Python, TypeScript, Security Tooling, Vulnerability Research, Cve, Cwe, False Positive Reduction, Severity Scoring, Exploit Reasoning, Open Source Security
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