Senior Application Security Engineer

Qualia

San Francisco, California, United States
Base: $180,000-$210,000; equity: competitive equit...
On-site
8+ years application security experience
Manual penetration testing and exploit development
Aws iam, vpc, and kubernetes security
This role involves setting the technical direction for finding, fixing, and preventing vulnerabilities across Qualia's products and cloud infrastructure

Job Summary

  • This role involves setting the technical direction for finding, fixing, and preventing vulnerabilities across Qualia's products and cloud infrastructure.
  • The successful candidate will partner daily with product engineering teams to raise the technical bar while staying deeply hands-on with code and adversarial testing.
  • Qualia offers a competitive benefits package including comprehensive health plans, a 401k program, parental leave, and flexible time off policies.

Matching Summary

This role involves setting the technical direction for finding, fixing, and preventing vulnerabilities across Qualia's products and cloud infrastructure.

Salary

Base: $180,000-$210,000; Equity: Competitive equity package; Benefits: Comprehensive health plans, 401k, parental leave, flexible time off

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • 8+ years application security experience
  • Manual penetration testing and exploit development
  • AWS IAM, VPC, and Kubernetes security
  • SAST/DAST/SCA pipeline tooling development
  • Python, Go, or TypeScript coding skills

Nice-to-have

  • Fintech or proptech regulated industry experience
  • Bug bounty program contributions
  • Identity and access management systems knowledge
  • Red team or DFIR background
  • Open source security tooling contributions

Key Requirements

  • 8+ years of hands-on experience in application security
  • Production experience with AWS and containerized workloads
  • Ability to write custom detection rules and automation scripts

Work Rights

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