Senior Security Engineer — Shift-Left SDLC & AI Security

Highmark Health; Bastrop (LA); 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. This high-impact engineering role focuses on embedding security into the software development lifecycle, from code to production, and shaping shift-left security practices across the organization.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience with SAST/DAST/SCA tooling, secure coding, and governance for AI-enabled development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field.
• 7+ years in Information Security / application security, or equivalent.
• Experience integrating security into SDLC and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead security guardrails to catch vulnerabilities early in development, including AI-assisted workflows and CI/CD gates.
• Develop and enforce security as code policies across a large distributed engineering org.
• Embed security into SDLC and provide hands-on guidance to engineering teams.

Skills

Security engineering

Shift-left security

AI security

DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field

Tools

GitLab

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

JFrog Xray

Job description

Highmark Health is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join our Enterprise Application Security team. This high-impact engineering role focuses on embedding security into the software development lifecycle, from code to production, and shaping shift-left security practices across the organization.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience with SAST/DAST/SCA tooling, secure coding, and governance for AI-enabled development.