Remote Senior Application Security Engineer

Summary

Join Gemini as a Senior Application Security Engineer and contribute to protecting the company and its customers against application security threats. As a member of the Application Security team, you will work closely with engineering and product teams to provide security recommendations and identify security issues throughout the software development lifecycle.

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

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

Benefits

• Competitive starting salary
• A discretionary annual bonus
• Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
• Comprehensive health plans
• 401K with company matching
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible time off