Staff AppSec Engineer - Remote, Equity, High-Impact

The Briefed; United States; Remote; USD 176,000 - 289,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal is seeking a Staff Application Security Engineer to secure its development pipeline, product, and customer environments, and to build AI-assisted security workflows with guardrails. You will lead threat modelling, set security direction, and run the secure development lifecycle including supply chain security across teams.

The role requires 7+ years in security, a CS or cybersecurity degree, production-grade coding, and experience with SAST/DAST and pentesting.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in application or product security.
• A degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience.
• Production-quality code in at least one language.
• SAST, DAST and penetration testing tools.
• Kubernetes security: workload hardening, RBAC and admission control.
• Multi-tenant security architecture.

Responsibilities

• Build security into product design and architecture with engineering teams
• Lead threat modelling and risk reviews across the product
• Set security direction across teams
• Run the secure development pipeline, including supply chain security
• Turn guidance such as the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs into internal policy
• Handle disclosed vulnerabilities in Cloud and open-source products; join on-call

Skills

7+ years security experience

Production-grade coding

Education

CS or Cybersecurity degree

Tools

SAST tools

DAST tools

Penetration testing

Job description

Temporal is seeking a Staff Application Security Engineer to secure its development pipeline, product, and customer environments, and to build AI-assisted security workflows with guardrails. You will lead threat modelling, set security direction, and run the secure development lifecycle including supply chain security across teams.

The role requires 7+ years in security, a CS or cybersecurity degree, production-grade coding, and experience with SAST/DAST and pentesting.