Graduate Application Security Engineer - Secure by Design

TikTok; Sydney; On-site; AUD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a bright Application Security Engineer Graduate for a 2027 start in Sydney. You will work on building secure-by-design platforms and help protect users and infrastructure while learning from a fast-moving security team.

As a graduate, you’ll tackle complex challenges, engage in threat modeling, code reviews, and security research, and contribute to cross-functional initiatives across the company. Availability by year-end is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field.
• Hands-on security engineering internship, project, or security research experience.
• Strong fundamentals in application security or related security domains.

Responsibilities

• Ensure apps are designed and implemented to the highest security and privacy standards thus maintaining and enhancing user trust.
• Review design/architectures, existing systems services, operating systems, networks and applications from a security perspective, via black box testing, code reviews, automation, threat modeling and research.
• Discover security issues that appear under new threat scenarios, support incident response, forensics, remediation in a cross‑functional environment driving towards incident resolution.

Skills

Security engineering fundamentals

Threat modeling

Incident response experience

Problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering

Tools

JavaScript (Node JS)

Go

Python

Java

C++

Rust

Job description

TikTok is seeking a bright Application Security Engineer Graduate for a 2027 start in Sydney. You will work on building secure-by-design platforms and help protect users and infrastructure while learning from a fast-moving security team.

As a graduate, you’ll tackle complex challenges, engage in threat modeling, code reviews, and security research, and contribute to cross-functional initiatives across the company. Availability by year-end is required.