Senior Security Engineer, Application Security

Job Description

Senior Application Security Engineer At Handshake, we believe security should be built into the product, not layered on after the fact. We’re looking for a Senior Application Security Engineer who’s excited to shape how security shows up in the developer experience, and enable our engineering teams to ship secure code without compromising on velocity. About The Role As a Senior Application Security Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in protecting Handshake’s users and their data. You’ll work closely with our engineering, platform, and cloud teams to make the secure way the easy way and embed security directly into how software gets designed, written, and shipped. This role is on our Cloud Security squad on our Infra & Platform team and is an engineering forward role. You’ll be building systems, tools, and automation that make secure development the default. You’ll bring a modern, opinionated perspective on how application security should work in a cloud-native, AI-enabled environment. What You’ll Do Own and grow key areas of our Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) like threat modeling, security reviews, and vulnerability management. Work collaboratively with and be a trusted partner for engineering teams. Eliminate whole classes of vulnerabilities by building secure by default libraries and tools into our platform. Raise the bar for security awareness by teaching others and sharing your knowledge through Design and build developer facing tooling to help engineers identify and fix security issues before they make it to production. Scale your impact and security knowledge by teaching others, automating processes, and leveraging AI and agentic tooling. Balance security and speed by using your judgement and expertise to add the right amount of security to our SDLC. Help respond to potential security