Cboe Global Markets
Principal Application Security Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America · Principal
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About the role
- At Cboe Global Markets, we inspire our people to solve complex challenges together because what we do matters.
- We provide the financial infrastructure that powers the global economy.
- Our teams are empowered to share ideas, actively pursue them and bring on a challenge.
Responsibilities
- Own secure architecture reviews and threat modeling for new systems and major changes, establishing architectural direction for Kubernetes trust boundaries, secure service-to-service communication, and API authorization models across the environment
- Provide principal-level guidance for high-risk code and design changes, resolving complex security tradeoffs and driving remediation approaches that are durable, scalable, and aligned to engineering realities
- Act as a senior technical partner to engineering leadership, influencing roadmaps, architecture decisions, and secure-by-default design patterns across the organization
- Own Kubernetes workload security standards across multi-cluster environments, setting technical direction for RBAC, pod security controls, namespace isolation, network policies, secrets management, and platform guardrails
- Drive the design and adoption of DevSecOps guardrails in CI/CD pipelines, ensuring SAST, SCA, secret scanning, container scanning, and IaC scanning are integrated through high-signal workflows that scale across engineering teams with minimal developer friction
- Own the strategy for risk-based software vulnerability management, including triage, exploitability assessment, remediation priorities, service level expectations, and metrics that demonstrate measurable reduction in security risk over time
- Develop and champion secure coding guidance, reusable security patterns, and enablement programs that raise engineering capability and create lasting improvements in how teams design and build software
- Lead security design support during incident response and post-incident follow-through, translating lessons learned into durable architectural, control, and guardrail improvements that prevent recurrence
- Own the secure adoption of AI-enabled development and security capabilities, establishing patterns and guardrails for secure code review, automated assessments, and process improvements throughout the SDLC.
- Provide principal-level architecture and risk guidance for AI implementations and integrations, shaping secure design decisions, control expectations, and review practices for emerging use cases.
Skills
- This position reports to the Senior Manager, Application and Cloud Security.
Compensation
- Salary Ranges (applicable for US locations only)
Company info
- We are committed to fostering a workplace where all individuals are valued and respected. #LI-CP1 This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
- Salary Ranges (applicable for US locations only) At Cboe, we are committed to providing a competitive, transparent, and market‑informed total rewards program.
Equal opportunity
- We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on any legally protected characteristic, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status.
- We are committed to fostering a workplace where all individuals are valued and respected.
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future.
Visa & Work Authorization
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
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