Senior Security Engineer: Shift-Left SDLC & AI Security

Highmark Health; Arkansas; On-site; USD 103,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Highmark Health is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join our Enterprise Application Security team and play a pivotal role in shaping how security is built into our software — not bolted on after the fact. This high-impact engineering role focuses on shift-left security, embedding security into every stage of the software development lifecycle.

You will collaborate with engineering teams to deploy security scanners (SAST/DAST), enforce policy, and drive risk reduction across AI-enabled

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field.
• 7+ years of experience in Information Security and related disciplines.
• Experience leading security architecture and SDLC integration for enterprise software.

Responsibilities

• Lead security engineering and architecture efforts to bake security into the SDLC.
• Perform root cause analysis to address recurring security issues.
• Deliver security training, workshops, and reference materials for developers.
• Define and enforce security controls, governance, and safe AI development patterns.

Skills

Security engineering

Shift-left security

Code review

AI security

DevSecOps

Vulnerability management

Threat modeling

CI/CD security

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Information Security

Tools

SAST

DAST

SCA/Dependency Scanning

Container Scanning

Secret Detection

AI security tooling

Job description

Highmark Health is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join our Enterprise Application Security team and play a pivotal role in shaping how security is built into our software — not bolted on after the fact. This high-impact engineering role focuses on shift-left security, embedding security into every stage of the software development lifecycle.

You will collaborate with engineering teams to deploy security scanners (SAST/DAST), enforce policy, and drive risk reduction across AI-enabled