Application Security Engineer

Who you are

• Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent
• Experience programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language
• Experience with AWS products and services
• Information security professional certification
• Experience implementing security solutions at the business division level or equivalent

What the job involves

• As a successful Application Security Engineer within ATG Security, you will be seen as a leader and play a key role in ensuring security is built into our applications and services and partnering with development teams to maintain a high security bar
• You will collaborate with security champions within our engineering teams to drive the implementation and validation of security controls prior to production launch
• Provide durable, technical security guidance to mitigate identified risks
• Review existing processes and suggest improvements for increased security and efficiency
• Independently solve security problems that require novel methods or approaches
• Embrace GenAI and the security challenges it brings, to be able to guide builders in building leveraging GenAI securely
• Participate in and support application security reviews that include threat modeling, code review, and security testing
• Mentor and guide security champions embedded throughout the engineering team
• As a successful Application Security Engineer within ATG Security, you will be seen as a strong leader who prioritizes well, communicates clearly and compellingly understands how to drive a high level of operational and strategic excellence within a team, while collaborating with a variety of internal and external business partners
• You must show exemplary judgment in making technical trade-offs between short- versus long-term security and business goals
• A successful candidate must be one that can handle several difficult challenges and problems, can make risk-based assessments founded on data and facts rather than older static based security paradigms, though being aware of the older best practices