Application Security Engineer: Threat Modeling & Automation

Jobtailor; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Application Security Engineer to join our Atlanta security team. You will lead threat modeling, perform secure code reviews, and drive vulnerability triage and remediation across the product portfolio.

Collaborating with software engineers, product managers, and security professionals, you will strengthen secure development practices, build automation, and ensure production code is robust and secure in a scalable, multi-tenant SaaS environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in application security, or software engineering with security focus.
• Solid knowledge of common vulnerabilities and mitigation techniques.
• Hands-on secure code review and application security testing experience.
• Ability to read source code and identify vulnerabilities beyond scanner output.
• Proficiency in a programming language such as Java or C++.
• Ability to reason about production code.
• Ability to independently own well-scoped security work and deliver reliably.
• Strong documentation and communication skills; ability to collaborate within a team.
• Candidates must reside within a reasonable commuting distance of the Atlanta office.
• This job requisition is not eligible for employment-based immigration sponsorship by Omnissa

Responsibilities

• Lead threat modeling for features and architectures.
• Perform secure code reviews, manual application security testing, and penetration testing.
• Triage and validate product vulnerabilities, assess severity and impact, and drive fixes to closure.
• Build and maintain automation and tooling to improve security processes.
• Identify recurring issues and recommend tooling or process improvements.
• Document findings and guidance clearly.
• Collaborate with developers to strengthen secure development practices across the product portfolio.
• Ramp up on assigned products, architecture, development toolchain, and release process.
• Own routine security work end to end and contribute automation or process improvements.
• Report to the Director of Product Security and take direction from the Manager of Application Security.
• Work with security engineers, product managers, and developers

Skills

Application Security

Secure Code Review

Vulnerability Assessment

Java

C++

Source Code Analysis

Automation Scripting

Documentation

Team Collaboration

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Automation Tools

Scripting (Python/Shell)

AI Tooling

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Application Security Engineer to join our Atlanta security team. You will lead threat modeling, perform secure code reviews, and drive vulnerability triage and remediation across the product portfolio.

Collaborating with software engineers, product managers, and security professionals, you will strengthen secure development practices, build automation, and ensure production code is robust and secure in a scalable, multi-tenant SaaS environment.