Senior Cloud App Security Engineer - AI-Driven SaaS

Genesys; Ireland; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Genesys is seeking a Principal Cloud Application Security Engineer to shape security for a multi-tenant SaaS platform across cloud accounts, regions, APIs, and supply chains. You will own the end-to-end security operating model, lead a small team, and drive automation to scale vulnerability triage, detection coverage, and risk decisions.

Role focuses on cloud security with AWS, application security tooling, and exploiting measurable improvements in exploitability while maintaining tenant

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience across application security, product security, vulnerability management, cloud security, or related disciplines.
• Expertise assessing exploitability across authorization flaws, authentication weaknesses, injection, SSRF, multi-tenant isolation risks.
• Experience implementing or tuning SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets scanning, or cloud security posture management.
• Proven experience building automation to improve triage efficiency and coverage.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction of a small Application Security team, strengthening engineering judgment, security standards, and team capability through hands-on leadership and mentoring.
• Own the end-to-end application security operating model, directing how detection coverage evolves, how increasing finding volume is absorbed, and where engineering investment delivers the greatest reduction in exploitable risk.
• Drive scalable detection coverage across SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets scanning, mobile app security testing, cloud security posture management.
• Expand security visibility across web applications, APIs, mobile applications, cloud environments, AI-powered product capabilities, and software supply chains.
• Establish meaningful security coverage metrics that demonstrate testing results and assess the attack surface.
• Own exploitability assessment across automated findings and penetration testing activities.
• Drive consistent vulnerability decisions through evidence, reproducibility, severity rationale, and triage checklists.
• Lead investigation and escalation of high-risk issues, including cross-tenant access and sensitive data exposure.
• Develop AI and automation capabilities to increase security team capacity and reduce false positives.
• Define trust boundaries for AI-assisted security decisions and human validation points.

Skills

Web security

API security

SAST

SCA

DAST

Cloud security

Automation

Leadership

Job description

Genesys is seeking a Principal Cloud Application Security Engineer to shape security for a multi-tenant SaaS platform across cloud accounts, regions, APIs, and supply chains. You will own the end-to-end security operating model, lead a small team, and drive automation to scale vulnerability triage, detection coverage, and risk decisions.

Role focuses on cloud security with AWS, application security tooling, and exploiting measurable improvements in exploitability while maintaining tenant