Remote AppSec & Risk Engineer - Clojure & Cloud

Ladder; California City (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent medical, dental, and vision

Flexible paid time off

Stock options

401k match

Paid parental leave

Remote work stipend

Job summary

Ladder is hiring a SecOps/AppSec Engineer to drive vulnerability management within development lifecycles. The role focuses on Clojure-based backend systems, JVM environments, and cloud security operations.

You will balance development-facing security with incident response, risk assessments, and governance while mentoring engineers on secure coding practices in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering and/or cybersecurity experience.
• Hands-on experience coding in Clojure and JVM environment.
• Experience securing modern cloud infrastructures and incident response.
• Ability to read functional code and collaborate with backend engineers.

Responsibilities

• Secure the code by partnering with development teams to champion AppSec vulnerability management.
• Monitor and tune cloud security posture using SIEM/SOAR/CSP tools and respond to threats.
• Conduct risk assessments on internal architectures and third-party vendors.
• Maintain IAM and device compliance while keeping productivity tools secure and frictionless.
• Mentor engineers on secure coding practices and secure defaults.

Skills

Clojure

JVM

TypeScript

JavaScript

Cloud security

Vulnerability management

Tools

Google Security Command Center

Chronicle

Datomic

BigQuery

Kafka

Job description

Ladder is hiring a SecOps/AppSec Engineer to drive vulnerability management within development lifecycles. The role focuses on Clojure-based backend systems, JVM environments, and cloud security operations.

You will balance development-facing security with incident response, risk assessments, and governance while mentoring engineers on secure coding practices in a fast-paced environment.