Senior Application Security Engineer

Summary

Join Twilio as a Senior Application Security Engineer (L3) and contribute to the delivery of secure products. You will enhance application security capabilities, improve visibility, reduce vulnerabilities, and foster secure engineering practices. This role involves leading application security initiatives, implementing security automation, maintaining security solutions, developing secure coding guidelines, investigating vulnerabilities, and researching emerging threats. The position requires strong application security experience, proficiency in programming, and excellent communication skills. Twilio offers competitive pay, generous time off, parental and wellness leave, healthcare, and a retirement savings program.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in application security, secure software development, or related fields
• Hands on experience with SAST, SCA, DAST, Secrets Management, API Security solutions
• Experience with securing Containers, web, APIs, and cloud-native workloads (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Strong knowledge of OWASP top 10s and modern attack vectors
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Go, Java, TypeScript)
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including an ability to communicate effectively with a diverse array of stakeholders at different levels

Responsibilities

• Contribute and Lead Application Security initiatives across different teams to design, build and implement security best practices
• Implement and enhance security automation within CI/CD pipelines
• Maintain Application Security solutions, measure their effectiveness and continuously improve based on strategic priorities
• Develop and maintain secure coding guidelines and security training for Engineers
• Investigate security vulnerabilities and support incident response as needed
• Research emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and attack techniques to proactively secure applications

Preferred Qualifications

• Application Security certifications (OSCP, GWAPT, GCPN etc)
• Experience with Threat Modeling

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Generous time off
• Ample parental and wellness leave
• Healthcare
• A retirement savings program