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Staff Application Security Engineer in USA new

  • BambooHR
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Lead security reviews and threat models for AI features, autonomous agents, MCP servers, and third-party integrations.
  • Define and track adoption of security standards for agent identity, delegated authorization, tenant and user data access, tool output, supply chains, and human approval.
  • Design, build, ship, and evaluate security-team agents for finding validation, triage, review assistance, and remediation with bounded permissions and approval gates.
  • Provide guidance and tooling for developers and security champions to build and use agents safely.
  • Embed AI security requirements and review gates into the software development lifecycle and CI/CD processes.
  • Lead multi-team security programs by setting goals, milestones, metrics, intake processes, priorities, and retrospectives.
  • Represent application security in architecture forums, advise leadership on risk tradeoffs, and coordinate with Legal, Privacy, and GRC on AI governance.
  • Train software engineers on secure design, authentication, authorization, multi-tenancy, AI features, and threat modeling.
  • Mentor security engineers and support onboarding, training, and career development.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and resolution of escalated security issues.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8+ years of security experience, including 5+ years of hands-on application security experience.
  • Experience securing multi-tenant SaaS platforms, including tenant isolation.
  • Cloud and infrastructure security experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Hands-on experience building AI agents or agentic workflows, including handling permissions, failures, and validation.
  • Experience evaluating agentic-system risks such as prompt injection, tool and context poisoning, excessive agency, delegated authorization, data leakage, and supply-chain risk.
  • Ability to design evaluations for agentic workflows covering success, false positives and negatives, adversarial cases, and regressions.
  • Proven experience leading threat modeling and design reviews for complex applications and APIs.
  • Deep understanding of web and API security, authentication, authorization, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, session management, and access control.
  • Strong software engineering skills in Python, TypeScript, PHP, or another language, including testing and maintaining shared tools.
  • Experience leading cross-team initiatives, influencing without authority, explaining technical risk, and mentoring engineers.
  • Preferred qualifications include experience securing MCP servers, AI coding assistants, developer-agent tooling, AI security checks in CI/CD, AI governance and compliance frameworks, relevant security certifications, and security champions programs.

Benefits

  • Remote position available in the listed state.
  • Health, life, and disability insurance.
  • Four weeks of vacation, 12 company holidays, parental leave, and volunteer time off.
  • 401(k) plan with up to a 6% company match.
  • $2,000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus.
  • Employee assistance program through Headspace.
  • Employment is contingent on passing background and credit checks.

BambooHR

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