Wave

Senior Application Security Engineer

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30 days ago
Remote, United KingdomSenior

Base Salary

$186k - $186k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead application security initiatives in partnership with product and infrastructure teams.
  • Design and secure agentic SIEM/SecOps pipelines for AI-driven triage, alerting, and response automation.
  • Secure MCP integrations against prompt injection, tool misuse, and credential exposure.
  • Maintain code security review agents tailored to Wave’s codebase, threat model, and regulatory environment.
  • Develop AI governance standards covering acceptable use, data handling, and audit requirements for LLM-powered tools.
  • Centralize application-level login, permissions enforcement, and privileged access management.
  • Improve secrets management using ephemeral secrets and tighter access scopes.
  • Conduct security reviews of public-facing APIs and advise engineers on secure patterns and design.
  • Own security projects from planning through delivery and support the engineering organization through advice and design review.
  • Mentor and help grow the security team.

Requirements

  • Minimum of 7–8 years of professional experience, including 3–5 years in a security-related role.
  • Strong experience with Python.
  • Fluent English.
  • Interest or experience in securing agentic AI systems, LLM-based security tooling, AI governance, and regulated financial-services environments is beneficial.
  • Experience remediating non-conformities and interest in source-code security review and penetration testing are beneficial.
  • Experience with ISO-27001 and PCI-DSS is beneficial, though the role does not require running or overseeing audits.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work from anywhere between UTC -5 and +4 with reliable internet access.
  • Wave covers travel once per year to one of its operating countries in Africa.
  • $1,200 yearly coworker-meeting stipend.
  • Salary up to $185,800 USD depending on experience, plus equity.
  • Subsidized health insurance for employees and dependents and retirement contributions, varying by country.
  • Six months of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance.
  • Flexible vacation, with most employees taking 30–40 days per year.
  • $10,000 annual charitable donation matching.
  • Performance reviews twice yearly, with potential bonuses or promotions for strong performers employed longer than six months.
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