Senior DAST Engineer for Web & API Security

Habitat For Humanity Of Durham; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

401k plan

Vacation and sick days

Paid holidays

Job summary

Truist Financial Corporation is seeking an Advanced DAST Engineer to design, configure, and improve testing capabilities for complex web apps and APIs. You will work across the SDLC to ensure accurate assessments and scalable patterns, acting as a technical authority on DAST standards within Security Engineering.

Must have 5+ years in security engineering, deep cybersecurity knowledge, and experience with authenticated testing and automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
• Advanced knowledge in cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.
• Proven experience in software development lifecycle security practices.
• Advanced knowledge of threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing.
• Experience implementing and managing complex information security technologies.

Responsibilities

• Designs, configures, tests, and improves advanced DAST solutions and technical patterns for complex web applications and APIs.
• Performs and validates complex authenticated assessments, including login success, session state, crawl coverage, attack surface coverage, vulnerability results and overall assessment validity.
• Engineers DAST scan policies, authentication workflows, login sequences, session handling, API definitions, custom scripts, integrations, and automation for reliable and repeatable testing.
• Investigates difficult and undefined assessment problems, including multifactor authentication constraints, incomplete crawling, blocked requests, dynamic application behavior, tool limitations, false positives, false negatives, and inconsistent results.
• Uses browser, proxy, HTTP, API, logging, and diagnostic techniques to identify root causes and develop practical, reusable technical solutions.
• Analyzes and documents DAST evidence to distinguish validated vulnerabilities, suspected false positives, coverage limitations, and inconclusive results, and supports remediation verification.
• Partners with application and engineering teams to understand runtime behavior, resolve testability constraints, and establish technically appropriate DAST configurations without assuming ownership of application readiness.
• Serves as a technical escalation point, reviews complex configurations and technical evidence, and shares specialized knowledge through peer reviews, troubleshooting sessions, and reusable documentation.

Skills

Threat modeling

Security testing

Penetration testing

SDLC security

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

DAST tools

Automation scripting

CI/CD integrations

Job description

Truist Financial Corporation is seeking an Advanced DAST Engineer to design, configure, and improve testing capabilities for complex web apps and APIs. You will work across the SDLC to ensure accurate assessments and scalable patterns, acting as a technical authority on DAST standards within Security Engineering.

Must have 5+ years in security engineering, deep cybersecurity knowledge, and experience with authenticated testing and automation.