Senior Application Security Engineer
AlphaSenseabout 3 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior / Staff+
H1B Sponsor
Base Salary
$157k - $216k/yr
Responsibilities
- Operate and continuously tune the SAST, SCA, secrets-detection, and SBOM pipeline.
- Design, ship, and harden security gates for AI-authored PRs.
- Review human and agent-authored PRs for semantic violations.
- Drive closure on security findings at the class level.
- Secure AI-assisted development tools and processes.
- Author and implement AI-Assisted Development Security policies.
- Partner with engineering on agent identity registration and verification.
- Threat model new AI features and ship necessary controls.
- Scale the threat modeling framework across teams.
- Build a security training program for engineers.
- Embed security criteria into PRD templates.
- Integrate with teams managing layered security testing.
- Drive MTTR on critical findings and support DAST deployment.
- Coordinate penetration testing and bug bounty programs.
- Act as the primary responder for application-layer incidents.
Requirements
- 6+ years of engineering experience, with 4+ in AI Application Security.
- Hands-on development experience in multiple programming languages.
- Experience with agentic AI and MCP development.
- Production operation of a SAST/SCA pipeline at scale.
- Demonstrated ownership of a threat modeling or developer security training program.
- Strong understanding of layered security principles.
- Excellent written communication skills.
Benefits
- Foundational hire with a chance to define Application Security.
- Genuinely novel scope at the intersection of AI and security.
- Opportunity to build and own real security surfaces.
- Senior IC role with a clear path to Staff/Tech Lead.
- Remote-first work environment with high autonomy.