Qualia
Senior Application Security Engineer
United States of America · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$180k-$210kDetected 77 days ago
TypeScriptPythonGoRubyAWSCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDCybersecurityPenetration TestingDetection EngineeringIncident ResponseSupply ChainOnboardingAPI TestingResearchLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON We're hiring a Senior Application Security Engineer to join a small, high-leverage AppSec team.
- This is the right role for someone who is as comfortable writing a Burp extension or a Semgrep rule as they are pairing with a product engineer to land a fix.
Responsibilities
- Run offensive assessments against Qualia's applications and infrastructure: manual penetration testing, exploit development, authenticated web/API testing, and adversarial review of new designs before they ship
- Lead threat modeling and secure design review for the highest-risk initiatives across the company, and mentor engineers to do the same for their own work
- Own and evolve our AppSec tooling stack end-to-end - SAST, DAST, SCA, secret scanning, IaC scanning, and the CI/CD gates that tie them together. Build the custom rules, detections, and automation that generic tooling doesn't give us
- build automation and guardrails that prevent the same class of issue from recurring
- Partner with Infrastructure and Platform on detection engineering, incident response support, and cross-cutting programs (secrets management, supply chain, runtime security)
- Deep familiarity with building and operating security tooling in a modern engineering org: SAST/DAST/SCA pipelines, custom detection rules, secrets scanning, and CI/CD security gates. You've written tooling, not just configured it
- Harden our cloud posture: review AWS configurations, IAM policies, Kubernetes/EKS workloads, and networking boundaries; build automation and guardrails that prevent the same class of issue from recurring
- Own and evolve our AppSec tooling stack end-to-end
- SAST, DAST, SCA, secret scanning, IaC scanning, and the CI/CD gates that tie them together. Build the custom rules, detections, and automation that generic tooling doesn't give us
- In order to continue building an engaging and dynamic organization, we're committed to giving everyone the support they need to do great work.
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in application security, offensive security, or security engineering, with demonstrable depth in at least two of: offensive testing, security tooling/automation, and cloud/infra security
- Strong offensive skills - you can manually exploit real web and API vulnerabilities beyond what a scanner will find, and you can teach others to do the same
- Production experience with AWS (IAM, VPC, networking, data services), containerized workloads (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar)
- Comfort reading, reviewing, and contributing code in at least one language common to modern web stacks (Python, Go, Ruby, TypeScript, or similar)
- You can make a sharp technical argument to senior engineers, translate risk into business terms for leadership, and write a bug report an engineer actually wants to fix
Nice to have
- Background meaningfully contributing to a bug bounty program
- Experience with identity and access systems (OIDC, SAML, federation, fine-grained authorization)
- Detection engineering, DFIR, or red-team experience
- Open source contributions to security tooling, published research, or CVE credits
- Relevant certifications (OSCP, OSWE, GWAPT, GPEN, etc.) - valued but not required
- Concord, New Hampshire
- and Austin, Texas.
- Qualia is made up of incredibly bright, mission-driven coworkers who are passionate about using technology to solve real-world problems---and we're growing quickly.
Skills
- Reduce toil for the team - write the tools, scripts, and integrations that turn a day of triage into a few minutes
Compensation
- This role has a base annual salary of $180,000-$210,000 plus a competitive equity and benefits package. (Salary to be determined by relevant experience, location, knowledge, and skills of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with m
Benefits
- Our benefits package is designed to allow our team members to be their best selves, both in and out of the workplace.
- In addition to comprehensive health plans, a 401k program, and commuter benefits, we prioritize family and personal well-being through professional development, parental leave, and a flexible time off policy.
Company info
- At Qualia, we've built the leading B2B real estate technology that transforms the home buying and selling experience into a simple, secure, and enjoyable process.
- Our SMB and Enterprise products bring together users from across the real estate ecosystem---homebuyers and sellers, lenders, title and escrow agents, and real estate agents---onto a single shared digital closing platform, providing greater clarity and transparency to real estate transactions.
- Today, through our business customers across the country, millions of consumers use Qualia to close on homes every year.
- We're hiring a Senior Application Security Engineer to join a small, high-leverage AppSec team.
Visa & Work Authorization
- regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, citizenship, socioeconomic status, disability, or veteran status
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