Senior Application Security Engineer - Remote UK

Yelp; Glasgow; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension scheme

Employee stock purchase plan

25 days paid holiday

£150 monthly reimbursement for remote work

Private health insurance

Flexible working hours

Regular Hackathons

Quarterly team offsites

Job summary

Yelp is seeking an Application Security Engineer to join their team in Glasgow, UK. This role focuses on securing applications and services, collaborating across mobile, frontend, and backend teams. You’ll work on threat modeling, incident response, and automated solutions, ensuring security is integrated throughout the development process.

Ideal candidates possess strong application security knowledge and programming skills in languages like Python and Java. Yelp offers a competitive salary, remote working reimbursement, flexible hours, and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Several years of software engineering experience in application security.
• Strong understanding of web application security, mobile security, APIs, and cloud security.
• Security research and pen-testing experience are assets.
• Comfort reading and navigating unfamiliar codebases.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams for threat modeling and secure design.
• Develop and deploy services for account security.
• Support security incident response activities.
• Build automated solutions to detect security threats.
• Evangelize security best practices across the software development lifecycle.

Skills

Web application security

Mobile security

APIs security

Cloud security

Common vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10)

Python

Java

JavaScript (React)

Swift

Objective-C

Job description

Yelp is seeking an Application Security Engineer to join their team in Glasgow, UK. This role focuses on securing applications and services, collaborating across mobile, frontend, and backend teams. You’ll work on threat modeling, incident response, and automated solutions, ensuring security is integrated throughout the development process.

Ideal candidates possess strong application security knowledge and programming skills in languages like Python and Java. Yelp offers a competitive salary, remote working reimbursement, flexible hours, and opportunities for professional growth.