Mitek Systems
Sr. Application Security Engineer
United States · Senior
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About the role
- Mitek (NASDAQ: MITK) is a global leader in digital & biometric identity authentication, fraud prevention, and mobile deposit solutions.
- The Senior Application Security Engineer serves as a hands-on technical authority for the security of Mitek's software products.
- This role bridges Information Security and Engineering, working directly with developers to identify, investigate, and remediate security weaknesses throughout the software development lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Perform hands-on security analysis of applications, services, APIs, and supporting components.
- Partner directly with software engineers to troubleshoot vulnerabilities and develop secure solutions.
- Develop reusable secure coding patterns, controls, and automation that prevent recurring vulnerability classes.
- Own application vulnerability remediation from initial finding through validation, prioritization, remediation, retesting, and closure.
- Personally reproduce and validate vulnerabilities rather than relying solely on scanner severity or external reports.
- Drive systemic fixes rather than repeatedly addressing individual instances of the same vulnerability.
- Maintain clear remediation SLAs and escalate unresolved Critical and High findings when appropriate.
- Embed security requirements into architecture, design, sprint, and release processes.
- Partner with Engineering to make secure development practices practical and scalable.
- Partner with developers on dependency upgrades, replacement strategies, exceptions, and compensating controls.
Compensation
- We are committed to creating competitive, equitable compensation & benefits programs and career development opportunities.
Benefits
- We are committed to creating competitive, equitable compensation & benefits programs and career development opportunities.
Company info
- We are headquartered in San Diego, California, with operations in the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Mexico, and the Netherlands.
- At Mitek, the Future of Work is about flexibility and preference wherever and whenever we are working.
- Because we care about our candidates, employees and customers, we include an in-person meeting as part of our hiring process.
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