Halter

Senior Application Security Engineer

Halter
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1 month ago
Auckland, New ZealandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Identify, assess, prioritize, and mitigate vulnerabilities, threats, and risks across Halter’s systems.
  • Research, define, and create threat models for application and infrastructure security.
  • Define and evolve organization-wide security practices and standards while balancing risk reduction with developer velocity.
  • Write and maintain code and tooling to resolve security issues across infrastructure and application layers.
  • Provide mentorship, guidance, and technical leadership on security practices across engineering teams.
  • Lead investigations and develop scalable solutions for complex security challenges.
  • Improve security through design reviews, secure coding practices, testing, and architecture changes.
  • Drive security incident response readiness, including detection, analysis, resolution, and follow-up prevention strategies.
  • Define and maintain security incident response playbooks and automate response processes.
  • Collaborate with third-party partners and vendors on audits, assessments, and security tools.
  • Contribute to security education and awareness initiatives.
  • Participate in a 24/7 security on-call rotation.

Requirements

  • Deep experience with security practices and securely scaling systems to millions of end users.
  • Hands-on technical expertise across mobile code, backend systems, infrastructure, and firmware.
  • Ability to work effectively with large codebases and complex, evolving systems.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, ownership, accountability, and decision-making skills.
  • Ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship across engineering teams.
  • Commitment to maintaining high standards for 24/7 system reliability and availability.
  • Motivation to work on meaningful problems in the agricultural technology domain.

Benefits

  • Unlimited paid annual leave and additional wellness days.
  • $1,000 annual self-development budget.
  • Six months of fully paid primary caregiver leave and four weeks of fully paid secondary caregiver leave.
  • Additional family-friendly benefits and subsidized Southern Cross health insurance.
  • Employee participation in a stock ownership plan.
  • Office-first work arrangement, with flexibility when needed, based in a dog-friendly Auckland City office and access to a test farm in Morrinsville.
  • Available snacks and drinks at the office.

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About Halter

501-1,000 employees
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