Remote Application Security Engineer - 12-Month Contract

Radicle Health; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Radicle Health is seeking an Application Security Engineer (Contractor) to join our remote team. You will partner with developers and operations to embed security into our 10 SaaS platforms, conduct internal pentests, create threat models, and automate security workflows with AI.

This 12-month contract may lead to a full-time role. You will influence secure coding practices, review code, and help scale security across product teams while communicating status to leadership.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of scripting and development experience, preferably supporting web applications.
• 2-3 years of cloud engineering experience, preferably using Infrastructure as Code. (Emphasis in AWS)
• Familiarity with Claude AI and other AI tools and leveraging agentic AI for automation.
• NIST and HIPAA experience a plus.
• Demonstrated excellent judgment in assessing and prioritizing technical risk.
• Knowledge of security best practices and standards, such as OWASP and OWASP ASVS, S-SDLC, and BSIMM.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex security issues to technical and non-technical collaborators, with an inclusive mindset.
• You work to identify and remove bottlenecks for your teammates, both in process and technology.
• Familiarity with a wide variety of security tools, technologies, and methodologies

Responsibilities

• Assist initiatives and projects to support and enhance security in our application development processes.
• Bring your ideas forward, evaluating how to optimize the tools we're using and exploring technologies to enhance our security posture and support scalability.
• Conduct internal penetration testing and code reviews.
• Create, update, and maintain threat models for a wide variety of software projects.
• Leverage AI to automate workflows and build efficiencies.
• Work closely with software developers to advise on secure coding practices, assist with vulnerability remediation, establish a proactive security posture, and promote continual process improvement.
• Assist projects to regularly analyze source code, pinpointing and supporting remediation of potential vulnerabilities upon discovery.
• Draft communications detailing status of security projects and programs to provide stakeholder updates and obtain leadership support.
• Support development of security training material and provide guidance for internal software development teams.

Skills

Scripting & development

Cloud engineering

Excellent communication

Risk assessment

Process improvement

Tools

AWS

Claude AI

OWASP

OWASP ASVS

BSIMM

S-SDLC

Job description

Radicle Health is seeking an Application Security Engineer (Contractor) to join our remote team. You will partner with developers and operations to embed security into our 10 SaaS platforms, conduct internal pentests, create threat models, and automate security workflows with AI.

This 12-month contract may lead to a full-time role. You will influence secure coding practices, review code, and help scale security across product teams while communicating status to leadership.