Senior Application Security Engineer - Secure Dev Platforms

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 224,000 - 357,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking an experienced application security engineer in California to secure services, APIs, developer tools, and data platforms behind NVIDIA’s workflows. You will work with software and security teams to identify risks, build protections, and enable secure development at scale.

You will design authentication/authorization controls for APIs and services, build reusable security tooling, and improve secret management and secure logging.

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.

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking an experienced application security engineer in California to secure services, APIs, developer tools, and data platforms behind NVIDIA’s workflows. You will work with software and security teams to identify risks, build protections, and enable secure development at scale.

You will design authentication/authorization controls for APIs and services, build reusable security tooling, and improve secret management and secure logging.