Senior AppSec Engineer - CI/CD Security Leader

Brightstar Lottery; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 145,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Health and life insurance

Volunteer opportunities

Well-being programs

Other benefits by seniority

Job summary

Brightstar Lottery seeks an Application Security Engineer to drive the strategy, implementation, and maturity of our application security program. You will lead initiatives across the secure software development lifecycle, integrating tools and practices into engineering workflows and partnering with security, DevOps, and engineering leadership.

This high-impact role requires technical depth and a passion for scaling security across product teams, including mentoring other AppSec engineers and

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience in Application Security or Secure Software Development.
• Proven experience leading application security programs in a CI/CD-heavy engineering environment.
• Deep expertise in securing cloud-native applications, and integrating AppSec tools such as Semgrep, Mend, GitHub Advanced Security, HCL AppScan, or equivalent.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD integrations using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar.
• Strong communication and influencing skills; able to drive security adoption across diverse teams.
• Knowledge of DAST tools (e.g., Tenable Web App Scanning) and Pentest methodologies (Burp Suite, Kali Linux).
• Experience with security in modern SDLC environments using containers, microservices, and APIs.
• IAST experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Participate in application security program, including tool selection, policy enforcement, developer engagement, and risk reporting.
• Own integration of AppSec tooling into CI/CD pipelines to enable scalable, developer-friendly security controls.
• Oversee deployment and tuning of tools for SAST, SCA, secrets management, IaC scanning, and DAST (e.g., Tenable Web App Scanning).
• Partner with product teams to embed secure coding practices, review threat models, and triage high-impact vulnerabilities.
• Collaborate with GRC/compliance teams to ensure alignment with relevant standards (e.g., OWASP, FedRAMP).
• Mentor and support other AppSec engineers and champion a security-first development culture.
• Evaluate IAST and runtime protections as part of continuous improvement efforts.
• Develop KPIs to measure security posture and tooling efficacy.

Skills

AppSec experience

CI/CD security leadership

Cloud-native security

AppSec tooling integration

Security communication

DAST/Pentest knowledge

Containers/microservices security

IAST experience

Tools

Semgrep

Mend

GitHub Advanced Security

HCL AppScan

Tenable Web App Scanning

Burp Suite

Kali Linux

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Job description

Brightstar Lottery seeks an Application Security Engineer to drive the strategy, implementation, and maturity of our application security program. You will lead initiatives across the secure software development lifecycle, integrating tools and practices into engineering workflows and partnering with security, DevOps, and engineering leadership.

This high-impact role requires technical depth and a passion for scaling security across product teams, including mentoring other AppSec engineers and