Engineer - Application Cybersecurity (Remote)

United Airlines; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Business Resource Groups"

Parental leave

401(k)

Space-available travel

Job summary

United Airlines is seeking an Engineer - Application Cybersecurity (Remote) to ensure our services and applications comply with secure development standards. You will collaborate with development teams across the product lifecycle to enforce security requirements and guide remediation.

The role requires strong vulnerability analysis skills, experience with security testing, and the ability to work independently from a remote setting. Remote work within the United States is supported.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM is required
• 2+ years of relevant experience or ECDLP
• Knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and CWE 25
• Experience with AI-powered security agents and automated workflows in SDLC
• Basic threat modeling understanding
• Familiarity with DevSecOps and CI/CD
• Experience with application testing (SAST, DAST, MAST, RAST, IAST)
• Programming and scripting knowledge
• Understanding of SDLC
• Understanding of API security and cloud security
• Knowledge of vulnerability management and remediation guidance
• Understanding of authentication and authorization in web apps
• Ability to work independently and communicate well
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
• Successful interview process
• Punctual attendance

Responsibilities

• Perform code analysis of applications using manual and automated security testing tools
• Improve security through automation and CI/CD pipelines
• Define and communicate security best practices and standards to product teams
• Support security architecture design reviews and threat modelling of products

Skills

Problem solving

Critical thinking

Interpersonal skills

Collaboration

Written and verbal communication

Independent work

Education

Bachelor’s degree in STEM

Tools

SAST

DAST

IAST

Job description

Engineer - Application Cybersecurity (Remote)

Location Chicago, Illinois, United States

Full-Time

Description

Achieving our goals starts with supporting yours. Grow your career, access top-tier health and wellness benefits, build lasting connections with your team and our customers, and travel the world using our extensive route network.

Come join us to create what's next. Let’s define tomorrow, together.

Connecting People. Uniting the World. There's never been a more exciting time to join United Airlines! As a global company that operates in hundreds of locations around the world - with millions of customers and tens of thousands of employees - we have a unique responsibility to uplift and provide opportunities in the places where we work, live and fly.

We're on a path to becoming the best airline in aviation history. Join our Cybersecurity and Digital Risk (CDR) team to help lead the industry in cyber safety, security and resilience. United's CDR team plays a critical role in protecting our operations by enabling secure and resilient systems, managing threats and vulnerabilities, and ensuring swift response and recovery. Our mission is to seamlessly embed cybersecurity and digital risk management into every aspect of our business. We help drive progress and growth through trusted digital solutions, safeguarding assets and empowering our team, all while promoting a cyber-safe and secure environment that supports resilient airline operations.

United offers a competitive benefits package aimed at keeping you happy, healthy, and well-traveled. From employee-run "Business Resource Group" communities to world-class benefits like parental leave, 401(k), and privileges like space-available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work. Are you ready to travel the world and help us keep our airline cyber safe?

Job Overview and Responsibilities

The Engineer- Application Cybersecurity helps validate that our services, applications, and websites are designed and implemented in accordance with United’s secure development standards. The engineer works closely with development teams, product teams, and other teams across the organization to integrate security into the product lifecycle from design through deployment. The engineer will support the enforcement of security requirements, performing application security assessments, and providing developers with remediation guidance and advice.

• Perform code analysis of applications, manually and using application security testing solutions including mobile application security tests as well as conducting manual vulnerability analysis, and assisting product teams with vulnerability remediation
• Improve the accessibility of security through automation, continuous integration pipelines, and other means including but not limited to developing and maintaining CI/CD templates
• Research, define and communicate security best practices and standards and ensure products development teams understand them
• Support security architecture design reviews and threat modelling of our products

Qualifications

What's needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

• Bachelor’s degree required, STEM field preferred
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience or ECDLP
• Working knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and CWE 25
• Experience designing, developing, or integrating AI-powered security agents and automated workflows to enhance vulnerability triage, exploitability analysis, secure code review, remediation and/or continuous security assurance across the SDLC
• Basic understanding of threat modeling
• Basic understanding of DevSecOps (e.g., CI/CD)
• Working knowledge with application testing (e.g., SAST, DAST, MAST, RAST, IAST)
• Working knowledge of programming languages and scripting
• Basic understanding of SDLC process
• Basic understanding of web and app security stack (e.g., API security)
• Basic understanding of cloud technologies and security
• Basic understanding of vulnerability management processes and proficiency in providing remediation guidance
• Basic technical understanding of authentication and authorization flows in web applications
• Ability to work independently and self-motivate
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, interpersonal, collaboration, written and verbal communication skills
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
• Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
• Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position

Preferred Qualifications

What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):

• IAWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• Certified Application Security Engineer
• Experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling, AI powered-security agents, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security, cloud computing
• Experience with AWS technologies
• Working knowledge of C#, Java, Python, Swift, JavaScript, generative AI/LLMs, agent orchestration frameworks, and API integrations to build scalable security automation. Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI agent frameworks, and AI-assisted code analysis and remediation is highly desirable
• Basic understanding of compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53) and processes
• Working knowledge with technical documentation / Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) creation
• Basic understanding of cryptography
• Basic understanding of networks and network security (e , WAF, Micro-segmentation)

Benefits

• employee-run "Business Resource Group" communities
• world-class benefits like parental leave
• 401(k)
• privileges like space-available travel

The base pay range for this role is $89,965.00 to $117,212.00.

The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.