Senior Application Security Engineer

About Huntress

Huntress is a fully remote, global team of passionate experts and ethical badasses on a mission to break down the barriers to cybersecurity. Whether creating purpose-built security solutions, hunting down hackers, or impacting our community, our people go above and beyond to change the security game and make a real difference.

Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress protects all businesses—not just the 1%—with enterprise-grade, fully owned, and managed cybersecurity products at the price of an affordable SaaS application. The Huntress difference is our One Team advantage: our technology is designed with our industry-defining Security Operations Center (SOC) in mind and is never separated from our service.

We protect 4M+ endpoints and 1M+ identities worldwide, elevating underresourced IT teams with protection that works as hard as they do. As long as hackers keep hacking, Huntress keeps hunting.

Job Overview

Reports to: Senior Manager, Internal Security Location: Remote US Compensation: $140,000 to $165,000 base plus bonus and equity

What You’ll Do

The Huntress Information Technology and Security team has the unique honor of securing the infrastructure that enables us to confidently protect over 4 million (and rapidly growing) of our partners’ endpoints. As our application security engineer, you will be responsible for implementing a robust application security program across internal development teams. You will mentor and guide teams to think about application security earlier in the development process and ensure that vulnerabilities are remediated before and after they make it into production.

Responsibilities

• Design, evaluate, and implement software security standards
• Build tools, processes, and solutions that drive continuous improvement in the Huntress security platform
• Influence and guide teams on secure-by-design principles by actively participating in architectural and design discussions to identify and mitigate security risks early in the development lifecycle
• Act as a security subject matter expert, providing a final set of eyes on high-risk pull requests (PRs)
• Lead and conduct secure development training for engineering teams, educating them on common vulnerabilities, bugs, and best practices to proactively embed security throughout the software development lifecycle
• Collaborate with development teams to drive the adoption of security tools and processes, fostering a culture of security awareness and shared responsibility.
• Advocate for and gain buy-in from engineering stakeholders to implement security changes and improvements within existing development processes
• Assist teams in reproducing, triaging, and addressing application security vulnerabilities
• Partner with DevOps to ensure a robust and secure code delivery pipeline
• Own our Vulnerability Disclosure Program, ensuring dazzling service to third-party security researchers
• Assist in the development of security processes and automated tooling that prevent entire classes of security vulnerabilities
• Implement an auditable Application Security program (BSIMM, SAMM, etc.)

What You Bring To The Team

• Demonstrable experience leading application security design and architecture reviews with a key focus on Ruby on Rails
• Extensive experience working with developers and driving application security standards
• Expertise owning software vulnerability management from triage, assessment, and analysis to remediation through collaboration with internal development teams
• Experience securing CI/CD pipelines by enabling strong security controls through the implementation of off-the-shelf and custom-built tooling
• Experience deploying, tuning, and automating common security testing tools within SAST, DAST, SCA, and IaC functional areas
• Expertise in threat modeling frameworks and processes
• Familiarity with IaaS/PaaS cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, and software-oriented architecture

Bonus Points

• Expertise in OS, agent, and me