Space Defense Application Security Engineer III (Onsite)

True Anomaly, Inc.; Denver, Long Beach (CO, CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Best-in-class healthcare

Generous time off

Daily catered lunch

401(k) retirement plan

Equity participation

Job summary

True Anomaly, Inc. seeks an Application Security Engineer III to implement and audit security controls for space systems meeting government standards.

You’ll blend security engineering with compliance (NIST/DoD) and cloud-native architectures to secure satellite mission control software and flight systems. You will design and deploy access controls, logging, incident response, and monitoring while partnering with product engineering to maintain velocity and security posture.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in application security, product security, or security engineering.
• Hands-on experience with compliance frameworks (NIST 800-171/800-53, FedRAMP, or CMMC).
• Ability to write production-quality code in Python, Rust, Elixir, or C++.

Responsibilities

• Create security architecture documentation for government authorization processes.
• Drive vulnerability management with defined SLAs (30/90/180 days).
• Collaborate on security automations using SAST, SCA, and DAST tools.
• Work with engineering teams to fix security findings and enforce secure coding.

Skills

Application security

Security engineering

Cloud security

Secure coding

Threat modeling

Authn/Authz patterns

Programming languages

Tools

SAST (CodeQL/Semgrep)

SCA (JFrog Xray)

DAST tools

GitOps

Terraform

Job description

True Anomaly, Inc. seeks an Application Security Engineer III to implement and audit security controls for space systems meeting government standards.

You’ll blend security engineering with compliance (NIST/DoD) and cloud-native architectures to secure satellite mission control software and flight systems. You will design and deploy access controls, logging, incident response, and monitoring while partnering with product engineering to maintain velocity and security posture.