Senior Application Security Engineer
Company | Gemini |
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Location | Seattle, WA, USA, New York, NY, USA |
Salary | $152000 – $213000 |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | |
Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in application security or similar roles
- Ability to perform design reviews, threat modeling, secure code reviews, or penetration testing with an attacker mindset
- Strong background in application security best practices and familiarity with common vulnerabilities (e.g. SSRF, race conditions, privilege escalations, etc.)
- Some background in development or scripting experience (Python, Scala, C++, or JavaScript)
- Familiarity with and ability to understand business objectives, business context, and security risk
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate on a cross-functional team
Responsibilities
- Support the Gemini Secure Software Development Lifecycle as an application security subject matter expert through design review, threat modeling, code review, and penetration testing
- Collaborate and advise engineering teams on application security best practices and vulnerability remediation
- Perform deep-dive security reviews to ensure all Gemini products and services follow secure design principles across our product portfolio (web, mobile, and APIs)
- Develop tools and research to scale the Product Security team
- Create and deliver hands-on software security training to engineering teams to increase security awareness
- Participate in the Application Security on-call rotation to support engineering teams during incidents
- Manual source code review
- Penetration testing
- Design and implementation review
- Threat modeling
- Design and implementation consultation
- Continuous assurance activities
- Risk identification and categorization / management
- Engineering education and engagement
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with microservice architectures
- Experience with cloud-native environments
- Experience with preventing application security vulnerabilities through secure design patterns, automated tooling, or frameworks