Senior Engineer, Application Security (R6290)

VulnU; San Diego (CA); Presencial; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Shield AI is seeking an Application Security Engineer for the Hivemind platform to strengthen our cybersecurity engineering team and secure our software lifecycle.

You will define security policies, deploy scanning tools in CI/CD, review results with developers, and collaborate with the architecture team to design secure-by-default products, performing threat modeling and ensuring compliance with secure coding standards.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years in cybersecurity or software engineering.
• Master’s degree with 4+ years in cybersecurity or software engineering.
• Experience developing or testing cyber secure code.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, automated testing, configuration management, and software lifecycle processes.
• Familiarity with threat modeling.
• Experience with software analysis tools (static, dynamic, dependencies, CVE).
• Comfortable in a Linux development environment.
• Strong organizational, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsabilidades

• Define application security policies and deploy/ configure scanning tools in CI/CD pipelines.
• Review scanning results and work with developers to fix issues in code.
• Collaborate with architecture to design secure-by-default software and perform threat modeling.
• Validate designs meet our secure coding standards.

Conocimientos

Cybersecurity

Software engineering

CI/CD

Threat modeling

Linux

Security testing

Python

Go

C/C++

Educación

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Herramientas

Static analysis tools

Dynamic analysis tools

Dependency mapping

CVE scanning

GitLab

Descripción del empleo

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube. What you'll do:As an application security engineer for Hivemind you will join our cybersecurity engineering team to help define our application security policies, deploy and configure scanning tools within our CI/CD pipelines, review scanning results and work directly with our developers to identify and fix security issues in or code.In addition, you will have the opportunity to help solve security issues before they start by working with our architecture team to design a secure-by-default software product, performing threat modeling, and validating designs meet our secure coding standards.Required qualifications:Bachelor’s degree with approximately 5+ years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree with approximately 4+ years of relevant experience, in cybersecurity, software engineering, or a closely related technical fieldExperience developing or testing cyber secure codeStrong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, configuration management, and software lifecycle processesFamiliarity with threat modelingExperience with software analysis tools, including static analysis, dynamic analysis, dependency mapping, CVE scanning, etc.Comfortable working in a Linux development environmentStrong organizational, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skillsBasic understanding of key cryptography conceptsPreferred qualifications:Previous experience on an application security team for a large, complex software productExperience as a DevSecOps engineer, especially in a GitLab environmentExperience writing software or testing Python, C/C++, and/or GoRed-teaming experienceSoftware reverse engineering skillsFull-time regular employee offer package:Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity Temporary employee offer package:Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment) Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your talent acquisition representative for more information. ### Shield AI is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.