# Senior/Staff Engineer, Application & Product Security

**Company:** [Grow Therapy](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/grow-therapy)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $182k – $288k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Application Security, Product Security, Microservices, Threat Modeling, Penetration Testing, Source Code Review, Secure Coding, SAST, DAST, Sbom, CI/CD, Security Risk Assessment
**Posted:** 2026-08-21

> Build and lead application and product security practices across a 145-engineer organization, embedding secure defaults, CI guardrails, threat modeling, and vulnerability mitigation into product development. The role requires 6+ years of hands-on security experience, strong coding ability, and microservices expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Champion a secure-by-default culture by building defense in depth into frameworks, architecture, and everyday processes.
- Develop security requirements and work directly with teams to integrate them into applications and services.
- Review source code to develop a deep understanding of products and identify security risks.
- Drive the product security roadmap with product, engineering, DevOps, and security teams.
- Design solutions to resolve and mitigate vulnerabilities and risk.
- Research relevant threats and attack methods.
- Conduct security risk assessments, hands-on penetration testing, and threat modeling.
- Turn findings into secure-coding education for engineers.

## Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in application or product security.
- Strong coding ability to automate tedious work and build security frameworks or services.
- Hands-on experience with microservice architectures.
- Ability to collaborate across security, engineering, product, DevOps, and services teams.
- Risk prioritization based on real-world impact rather than raw vulnerability counts.
- Deep experience working directly in a codebase, beyond relying only on SAST, DAST, and SBOM tooling.
- Ability to understand products and work effectively with product managers and service teams.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Base compensation for fully remote commitment: $182,000–$240,000 USD annually.
- Base compensation for hybrid commitment: $217,000–$288,000 USD annually.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage.
- No-cost access to therapy through the Grow platform for US employees.
- Retirement savings programs and equity opportunities.
- Flexible time off, paid holidays, and company-wide winter break.
- Up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave and a new-child stipend.
- Weekly flexible time for self-care.
- Wellness and development stipend.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits for hub employees.
- Home-office and meal benefits.
- Additional wellbeing benefits, virtual care, pet insurance discounts, and global travel assistance.

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