Senior / Staff Application Security Engineer

Suno

$230K — $330K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in security engineering with deep, hands-on application-security expertise.
  • Strong knowledge of vulnerability classes and elimination at the source.
  • Experience building AppSec practices and secure SDLC tooling from the ground up.
  • Familiarity with modern application stacks and AWS.
  • Ability to collaborate with engineers without being a bottleneck.
  • Proficient in writing and shipping production-quality code.
  • Curiosity about emerging AI/LLM threat classes and their defenses.

Responsibilities

  • Execute end-to-end application security including threat modeling and risk remediation.
  • Secure critical application vulnerabilities such as injection and broken authentication.
  • Build and manage a secure Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
  • Harden authentication and authorization processes across the product.
  • Secure AI-specific application surfaces and address new vulnerabilities.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to incorporate security in product design.
  • Establish standards for secure coding practices throughout the engineering team.

Benefits

  • Company equity package.
  • 401(k) with 3% employer match and Roth option.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 11 paid holidays plus unlimited PTO and sick time.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Creative education stipend for professional growth.
  • Generous commuter allowance provided.
  • In-office lunch provided five days a week.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're looking for a Senior / Staff Application Security Engineer to own the security of how our product is built. You'll be the person who makes sure our code, APIs, and services are secure by design - threat-modeling the product, hardening the application layer, and building the AppSec practice from the ground up.

What You'll Do
  • Execute application security end to end: threat-model features and services, and drive remediation of the most significant risks.
  • Secure the application layer against the vulnerabilities that matter most - injection, broken authentication and authorization, and insecure APIs.
  • Build and run a secure SDLC: code-review guardrails, SAST/DAST, dependency and supply-chain security, secrets management, and pre-production testing.
  • Harden authentication, authorization, and session/identity handling across the product.
  • Secure the AI-specific application surface - model and inference endpoints, prompt and input handling, and the new classes of vulnerability that come with shipping generative features.
  • Partner with product and platform engineering to design security in early and raise the security bar across the codebase.
  • Set the standard for how engineering reasons about and ships secure code.


What You'll Need
  • 6+ years in security engineering with deep, hands-on application-security expertise.
  • Strong command of the vulnerability classes that cause incidents and how to eliminate them at the source - code, API, and authz design.
  • A builder who has stood up AppSec practices and secure-SDLC tooling, not only operated established ones.
  • Fluent in modern application stacks and comfortable in AWS.
  • Able to work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers and raise the bar without becoming a blocker.
  • Able to write and ship production-quality code, not only review it.
  • Curiosity about emerging AI/LLM threat classes and how to defend against them as the product evolves.
  • Nice to have: Consumer product at scale, secure-by-design work on generative-AI or ML product surfaces, and/or early security-hire experience.


Perks & Benefits for Full-Time Employees
  • Company Equity Package
  • 401(k) with 3% Employer Match & Roth 401(k)
  • Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (PPO w/ HSA & FSA options)
  • 11 Paid Holidays + Unlimited PTO & Sick Time
  • 16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
  • Creative Education Stipend
  • Generous Commuter Allowance
  • In-Office Lunch (5 days per week)


Additional Notes:
  • Applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
  • This role requires working onsite at one of our three offices.


Compensation:
  • $230,000 to 330,000


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