Senior Space App Security Engineer (DoD/NIST)

True Anomaly, Inc.; Laguna Beach (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

PTO & holidays

401K

Parental Leave

HSA/HRA options

Equity participation

Job summary

True Anomaly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Application Security Engineer to design and audit security controls for mission-critical space systems, ensuring compliance with DoD standards.

You will work at the intersection of security engineering, risk assessment, and modern cloud-native architectures. You will implement application-level security controls, including audit logging, incident response, access controls, and monitoring, collaborating with product engineering to balance security and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in application security, product security, or security engineering.
• Hands-on experience implementing security controls for compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, or CMMC.
• Strong software engineering skills with production-quality code in Python, Rust, Elixir, C++, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Create security architectures and operational guides for government authorization.
• Drive vulnerability management with defined SLAs (30/90/180 days by severity).
• Perform security code reviews for Python, C++, Elixir, and JavaScript codebases.

Skills

Application security

Security engineering

NIST compliance

Cloud security

Python

C++

Elixir

OAuth2/JWT

Tools

CodeQL

Semgrep

JFrog Xray

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

True Anomaly, Inc. is seeking a Senior Application Security Engineer to design and audit security controls for mission-critical space systems, ensuring compliance with DoD standards.

You will work at the intersection of security engineering, risk assessment, and modern cloud-native architectures. You will implement application-level security controls, including audit logging, incident response, access controls, and monitoring, collaborating with product engineering to balance security and