Veilant
Application Security Engineer
Tysons, VA, United States
No sponsorshipDetected 27 days ago
JavaAngularSpringGitSQLPostgreSQLAWSAzureAnsibleCI/CDDevOpsRESTOAuthCybersecurityCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- We were early to the fight against Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance, and we've been pushing the edge ever since.
- You'll work on high-impact, technically challenging problems alongside a team that values teamwork over competition.
Responsibilities
- Analyze source code to identify, isolate, validate, and contextualize vulnerabilities in complex application codebases.
- Build safe proof-of-concept examples to demonstrate exploitation paths and verify the real-world impact of discovered risks.
- Author clear remediation guidance and partner with development teams to implement effective patches, controls, or architectural mitigations.
- Perform threat modeling for web applications based on use cases, data flows, user roles, trust boundaries, and production environments.
- Support container runtime security efforts using monitoring and runtime protection tools such as Falco, NeuVector, or similar technologies.
- Create standardized security reporting that translates technical findings into clear risk narratives for both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.
- Building a repeatable AppSec review process for major and minor software releases, helping engineering teams identify and resolve security issues before deployment.
Requirements
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.
- The ability to communicate information and ideas in a classroom style format, may stand at a podium for long periods of time
- Ability to obtain a Security Clearance
- 2+ years of software development experience in Java.
- Working knowledge of authentication and authorization technologies, including JWT, OAuth, identity providers, Entra, Keycloak, and token-based access models.
- Experience intercepting, decrypting, manipulating, and analyzing web or application network traffic.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions.
- Experience with containerized environments and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
Skills
- Veilant offers a solid work-life balance and flexible remote work options.
Benefits
- Flexible PTO + holidays
- Generous 401k match benefit up to 10%, with an automatic 3% safe harbor contribution and additional matching based on employee contributions.
- Medical (HSA & PPO Plans Available), dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
- Employer Contribution to Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Learning & Development opportunities
Company info
- Be part of a team that supports each other and works toward shared goals.
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
- Integrating and improving SAST, DAST, and SCA checks in CI/CD pipelines so that security testing becomes a reliable part of the development lifecycle rather than a late-stage blocker.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Ability to obtain a Security Clearance
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