Hark

Application Security Engineer

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10 hours ago
San Jose, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
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Base Salary

$150k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Threat-model new features and services, focusing on prompt injection, tool misuse, data exfiltration, and cross-tenant access in agent and LLM systems.
  • Review designs and code for backend services, APIs, and mobile apps, and fix vulnerabilities directly when appropriate.
  • Secure authentication, authorization, session handling, OAuth integrations, and multi-tenant systems.
  • Build and tune SAST, dependency, and secrets scanning in CI.
  • Triage and remediate findings from penetration tests and the vulnerability disclosure program.
  • Partner with engineering to embed security through secure defaults, paved roads, and reusable libraries.

Requirements

  • 4–8 years of hands-on application or product security engineering experience.
  • Strong software engineering skills and the ability to read, write, and ship production code; Go is strongly preferred, while Python, TypeScript, Swift, and Kotlin are valuable.
  • Deep knowledge of web and API vulnerabilities, including OWASP Top 10, SSRF, IDOR/BOLA, authorization flaws, and injection.
  • Hands-on experience with OAuth 2.0, OIDC, session management, and securing multi-tenant systems.
  • Experience conducting secure code reviews and threat modeling in a fast-moving engineering organization.
  • Experience converting scanner and runtime findings into fixes using tools such as Wiz Code, Wiz Cloud, and Datadog SIEM or equivalent SAST/SCA, CNAPP, and SIEM tools.
  • Curiosity about LLM and agent security.
  • Preferred qualifications include mobile application security, LLM or agent threat modeling, prompt-injection defenses, AI red teaming, bug bounty work, CVEs, or open-source security contributions.

Benefits

  • Full-time position with a US base salary range of $150,000–$300,000 annually.
  • Additional compensation components and benefits may be included depending on the role.

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