Lead Application Security Engineer
Core
Lead an application security team to secure mission-critical software systems by identifying, analyzing, and mitigating application-level vulnerabilities for missile warning and defense programs.
Role type
Senior IC application security engineer (lead)
Builds
Next-Generation Missile Warning software and secure data processing pipelines
Domain
Defense / Cybersecurity
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Application security analysis, SAST, SCA, fuzzing, manual code reviews, CI/CD security integration, threat modeling, secure design reviews
Preferred skills
CVE publication, reverse engineering, runtime instrumentation, MITRE ATT&CK frameworks
Technologies
C++, Python, JavaScript, Rust, Coverity, Klocwork, SonarQube, Snyk, Sonatype, Anchore, JFrog Xray, AFL, AFL++, honggfuzz, strace, eBPF, Ghidra, IDA Pro
Responsibilities
Lead application security team, integrate security tooling into CI/CD pipelines, tune security tools to reduce false positives, assist developers in implementing fixes, support threat modeling and secure design reviews
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership
