Remote Security Engineer I — Application Security

Trail of Bits; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Work from home stipend

Learning & development stipend

Parental leave

Job summary

Trail of Bits seeks a Security Engineer I for our Application Security practice. You will contribute to security assessments of client software, own clearly scoped pieces of client engagements, and develop tooling to support vulnerability analysis.

The role blends hands-on code analysis with client delivery and learning from senior engineers. This early-career position emphasizes practical, code-level security work, with direction from a project lead and opportunities to grow in research,

Qualifications

• 1+ year in application security or related area.
• Demonstrable vulnerability-discovery capability.
• Strong code-analysis and debugging skills.
• Hands-on coding in at least two languages listed.
• Understanding memory-corruption vulnerabilities and mitigations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the review of a component or module within a client engagement.
• Find and validate vulnerabilities in code and systems.
• Design and build security-testing tools and automation.
• Review software architectures and recommend mitigations.
• Translate findings into actionable remediation guidance.
• Contribute to security research and open-source tooling.

Skills

Code analysis

Programming languages

Vulnerability research

Security engineering

Communication

Tools

Rust

Go

C

C++

Python

JavaScript

TypeScript

Job description

Trail of Bits seeks a Security Engineer I for our Application Security practice. You will contribute to security assessments of client software, own clearly scoped pieces of client engagements, and develop tooling to support vulnerability analysis.

The role blends hands-on code analysis with client delivery and learning from senior engineers. This early-career position emphasizes practical, code-level security work, with direction from a project lead and opportunities to grow in research,