Senior Security Engineer - Shift-Left & AI Security

highmarkhealth; Pennsylvania; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Highmark Health is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join our Enterprise Application Security team and embed security into the software development lifecycle across the organization. You will design shift-left controls, drive vulnerability reduction, and automate the security toolchain while partnering with engineers to enable secure AI-assisted development at enterprise scale.

This role emphasizes proactive threat prevention, code review, and governance to protect patient data and support

Qualifications

• Experience embedding security into the software development lifecycle.
• Ability to design and enforce security guardrails across CI/CD.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement shift-left security controls across development pipelines.
• Lead vulnerability risk reduction through triage and remediation tracking.
• Automate and optimize security toolchain and dashboards.
• Serve as embedded security advisor to engineering teams.
• Develop security training and reference architectures.

Skills

Security engineering

Shift-left security

DevSecOps collaboration

Threat modeling

Tools

SAST

DAST

Container scanning

Secret detection

AI/LLM security assessment

Job description

Highmark Health is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join our Enterprise Application Security team and embed security into the software development lifecycle across the organization. You will design shift-left controls, drive vulnerability reduction, and automate the security toolchain while partnering with engineers to enable secure AI-assisted development at enterprise scale.

This role emphasizes proactive threat prevention, code review, and governance to protect patient data and support