CareerPlan

Application Security Engineer (X Money)

Austin, TXFull-time$100k2026-09-30 → 2026-11-10
Citizens or permanent residents only

Core

Protect the security and integrity of payments and financial products throughout the software development lifecycle, focusing on code security, CI/CD pipelines, and systems moving/holding customer funds.

Role type

Application Security Engineer (Fintech/Payments)

Builds

Secure payments, digital wallets, ledgers, and high-value transaction systems

Domain

Fintech, Payments, Digital Wallets, Cloud-Native Security

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Secure coding practices, CI/CD pipeline security, threat modeling, vulnerability management, bug bounty program management, software supply chain security (SBOM), agentic/LLM-based security solutions, Python, Rust, static/dynamic code analysis tools

Preferred skills

AWS security, security certifications (BSCP, OSCP, OSWE), data privacy compliance, GitOps, infrastructure-as-code security, custom security tooling, open-source security contributions

Technologies

Python, Rust, Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, AWS, GitOps, SBOM tools

Responsibilities

Conduct code reviews and static analysis; design secure coding guidelines; integrate security into CI/CD; perform threat modeling for payments/wallets; manage vulnerability tracking; run bug bounty programs; support incident response; secure software supply chains; design agentic/LLM security solutions

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC