Senior Application & AI Security Leader

DoubleVerify; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 153,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

DoubleVerify seeks a senior leader to own and evolve the Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC), application security, API security, and AI/LLM security. You will lead people, processes, and tooling to secure code, pipelines, cloud workloads, APIs, and AI systems across the organization.

You will partner with engineering, DevOps, and leadership to advance security postures, drive metrics, and ensure risk-based governance across DV's digital products and AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in information security with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
• Expertise across application security, AI/ML security, software supply chain security, penetration testing, or cloud security.
• Hands-on with AppSec tooling (SAST/SCA/DAST/ASPM) and API security.
• Experience securing AI/ML systems and knowledge of OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, NIST AI RMF.
• Cloud-native focus, especially GCP; Kubernetes and Terraform familiarity preferred.
• Leadership of pentesting programs (web/API/cloud/AI) and familiarity with DevSecOps.
• SBOM, license compliance, OSV/CVE triage knowledge; audits (SOC 2, ISO 27001).
• Strong communication; Python or similar scripting; security certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead DV's application security program, including SAST, SCA, DAST and ASPM tooling.
• Drive ASVS adoption across engineering repos with dashboards and coverage.
• Oversee API security program and attack-surface management activities.
• Partner with DevOps to embed security in CI/CD and SSDLC.
• Develop security metrics and leadership reporting, MTTR and burn-down.
• Direct AI security governance across DV's AI/ML ecosystem.
• Lead vulnerability remediation forums and security leadership meetings.
• Engage with compliance and audit programs (SOC 2, ISO 27001) from security engineering.

Skills

Application security

AI/ML security

Software supply chain security

Penetration testing

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/IS or related field

Tools

SAST tools

SCA tools

DAST tools

ASPM platforms

Ox Security

Snyk

Veracode

Checkmarx

API security tooling

Job description

DoubleVerify seeks a senior leader to own and evolve the Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC), application security, API security, and AI/LLM security. You will lead people, processes, and tooling to secure code, pipelines, cloud workloads, APIs, and AI systems across the organization.

You will partner with engineering, DevOps, and leadership to advance security postures, drive metrics, and ensure risk-based governance across DV's digital products and AI initiatives.