Senior Space-Grade Application Security Engineer

True Anomaly; Long Beach, Denver (CA, CO); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401K

Parental Leave

Job summary

A space technology company in Long Beach seeks a Senior Application Security Engineer to design and implement security controls for mission-critical systems. You will ensure compliance with stringent government standards while working on cloud-native architectures. Ideal candidates will have 5+ years of experience in application security, strong coding skills, and the ability to collaborate with engineering teams. The position offers a salary range of $150,000 to $205,000, and a hybrid work environment.

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.
• Strong software engineering skills with ability to write production‑quality code in at least one language.

Responsibilities

• Create security architecture documentation and operational security guides for government authorization processes.
• Drive vulnerability management program with defined SLAs for remediation.
• Collaborate in the triage and management of security automations using SAST and DAST tools.

Skills

Application security

Security engineering

NIST compliance

Cloud security (Azure, AWS)

Software engineering (Python, Rust)

Threat modeling

Collaboration

Education

5+ years of experience in application security

U.S. Citizen eligible for DoD Secret or TS/SCI clearance

Tools

SAST tools (CodeQL, Semgrep)

Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)

Kubernetes security

Job description

A space technology company in Long Beach seeks a Senior Application Security Engineer to design and implement security controls for mission-critical systems. You will ensure compliance with stringent government standards while working on cloud-native architectures. Ideal candidates will have 5+ years of experience in application security, strong coding skills, and the ability to collaborate with engineering teams. The position offers a salary range of $150,000 to $205,000, and a hybrid work environment.