Senior Application Security Engineer — Equity & Impact

NVIDIA; United States; Remote; USD 224,000 - 357,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking an experienced Application Security Engineer to secure services, APIs, developer tools, and data platforms behind autonomous workflows. You will work across architecture, code, and production systems with a focus on identity, authorization, and sensitive data.

Responsibilities include threat modeling, designing auth controls, developing reusable security tooling, and integrating checks into CI/CD. Requires 12+ years in security with hands-on coding in Go, Python, Java, or C++.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant experience and a BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience building and operating production software, with substantial work in application or product security.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, Java, C++, or a comparable language, and the ability to review and modify unfamiliar code.
• Practical understanding of web and API security, authentication, authorization, and common vulnerability classes.
• Experience with threat modeling and security reviews for distributed systems.
• Ability to turn security findings into concrete engineering changes and prioritize work based on risk and impact.
• Clear communication and experience working collaboratively with engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Review application designs and code, develop threat models, and help teams address security risks before deployment.
• Design and implement authentication and authorization controls for APIs, services, and applications, including service identities, tenant isolation, and resource-level access.
• Build reusable libraries, tooling, and reference implementations that make secure patterns straightforward to adopt.
• Improve how applications handle credentials, secrets, sensitive data, and security-relevant logging.
• Integrate practical security checks into development and CI/CD workflows, with actionable findings and clear remediation paths.
• Investigate application vulnerabilities, develop fixes with service owners, and add regression coverage.
• Partner with infrastructure and corporate security teams to prioritize improvements and measure their effectiveness.

Skills

Threat modeling

Security reviews

Go

Python

Java

C++

Communication

Education

BS in Computer Science/Engineering or related

MS in Computer Science/Engineering or related

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud IAM

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD systems

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking an experienced Application Security Engineer to secure services, APIs, developer tools, and data platforms behind autonomous workflows. You will work across architecture, code, and production systems with a focus on identity, authorization, and sensitive data.

Responsibilities include threat modeling, designing auth controls, developing reusable security tooling, and integrating checks into CI/CD. Requires 12+ years in security with hands-on coding in Go, Python, Java, or C++.