Lead Application Security Engineer — Remote AI Platform

Jobgether; Ireland; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Paid time off: 20 days

Annual team gathering

Health and wellness support

Co-working budget

Learning & development budget

Company equipment

Premium AI tools access

High-impact responsibilities

International remote environment

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Security Engineer based in Ireland to own application security for a rapidly growing AI-powered platform. You will review code, identify vulnerabilities, and strengthen security across the stack in a fully remote, international environment.

Responsibilities include coordinating external audits, developing security automation, integrating AI tools, and communicating risks clearly to stakeholders. 2+ years of hands-on security experience and English fluency are essential.

Qualifications

• Hands-on cybersecurity experience with a focus on application security.
• Ability to perform regular source code reviews and identify vulnerabilities.
• Experience coordinating external security audits or penetration tests and driving remediation.
• Strong engineering skills with Git/GitHub and scripting (Python/Bash).
• Exposure to modern web technologies (Ruby on Rails or Node.js).
• Familiarity with cloud hosting (GCP/Heroku or equivalent).
• Proven ability to work independently as a sole security lead or owner.
• Weekly code reviews and regular security testing practices.
• Daily use of AI-powered tools to support security engineering and research.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive application security across the organisation, proactively identifying vulnerabilities and ensuring security risks are addressed throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Conduct regular source code reviews to detect security weaknesses before deployment, prioritising critical vulnerabilities and collaborating with engineering teams to implement effective fixes.
• Coordinate external security audits and penetration tests, critically evaluating findings, challenging assessments when necessary and ensuring remediation actions are completed.
• Develop and automate security processes, scripts and internal tools to improve vulnerability detection, streamline security operations and support scalability.
• Integrate AI-powered tools into daily security workflows, leveraging them for code reviews, penetration testing, scripting and security research.
• Act as the primary security point of contact, independently defining priorities, managing security initiatives and communicating technical risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Monitor and respond to security alerts, including participating in occasional night and weekend on-call rotations.
• Maintain risk registers and relevant Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) documentation, ensuring security practices remain organised and up to date.
• Promote security awareness across the organisation by sharing relevant updates, providing guidance and delivering internal security training.
• Monitor emerging AI-specific security threats, including prompt injection, jailbreaks, content moderation bypasses and vulnerabilities affecting third-party AI providers.

Skills

Security engineering

Code review

Penetration testing

Python scripting

Git/GitHub

Cloud platforms

AI tools usage

Communication in English

Tools

GitHub

Python

Bash

Ruby on Rails

Node.js

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Security Engineer based in Ireland to own application security for a rapidly growing AI-powered platform. You will review code, identify vulnerabilities, and strengthen security across the stack in a fully remote, international environment.

Responsibilities include coordinating external audits, developing security automation, integrating AI tools, and communicating risks clearly to stakeholders. 2+ years of hands-on security experience and English fluency are essential.