Senior Application Security Engineer

Location: San Diego
Posted on: June 23, 2025

Job Description:

Security sits at the intersection of empowering teams to move quickly and mitigating risks to our overall business. We are enablers who strive to hone our unique craft and minimize friction or red tape. Our security team ensures that we are designing platforms, implementing tools and building products with security in mind. This team owns the security posture of our entire organization, including our development, production environments, and internal concerns. As a part of this team, you are given the space and encouraged to stretch beyond your core function and make a deeper impact on the broader organization. In short, the work you do here matters, and you feel that day in and day out. What you’ll do • Implement SAST, DAST and SCA tooling as part of security hygiene and integrated into CI/CD pipelines • Ensure that we are designing platforms, implementing tools and building products with security in mind. • Serve as trusted advisor and collaborator to developers to identify new threats, attack methods, and techniques, to develop and prioritize mitigation plans (threat modeling & governance) • Influence stakeholders to correct security deficiencies in solution design as well as developed code • Collaborate with partners in infrastructure and engineering to measurably harden, monitor, and ensure resilience for our cloud-hosted platforms and software development lifecycle. • Establish, manage, and own risk based cross-organizational projects and work to continuously improve our security posture • Integrate with a maturing vulnerability management program to ensure tracking and remediation of security issues. What you’ll bring We’re looking for an engineer with passion for working collaboratively with developers and a desire to ensure that software applications are built with the highest level of security. If youre ready to join a dynamic team of developers and security experts, and help create software that is secure from the ground up, we’d love to talk with you! Qualifications The minimum qualifications for this role include: • 3 years of programming and/or DevOps experience and 3 years of information security experience • Experience performing security testing of an application using Static Application Security testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) and Open Source Analysis (SCA) tooling. • Experience in reviewing findings from the above tools to analyze false positives and recommend security fixes. • Demonstrated comprehension of the OWASP Top 10 and an ability to communicate with developers and application architects. Preferred qualifications for this role include: • Information security qualification such as CISSP • GIAC or related certifications related to application pen testing or secure development • Experience with threat modeling and familiar with using frameworks to guide decision making based on risk tolerance and business objectives • Experience with technology/tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, AWS, Github, etc • Experience automating security testing into CI/CD pipelines How you’ll grow Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including: • Experiencing Sprout’s in-depth onboarding, covering everything from our company mission and values, hearing directly from executives and founders, to deep training on our products and the value that Sprout delivers to our customers • Making a plan with your manager to set initial priorities, align on expectations for your role, plant goalposts for your career, and learn about Sprout’s approach to security • Meeting Sprout’s security stakeholders across the organization • Learning our existing tooling and begin monitoring the status of our environments • Collaborating regularly with teammates and members of our infrastructure and development teams and get up to speed on our current and future initiatives • Getting regular feedback on your approach to managing and engaging our existing risks and security capabilities Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by: • Working with your manager and teammates to create and prioritize quarterly team goals • Deconstructing larger security projects into smaller, more manageable deliverables • Starting to understand the breadth and depth of technologies and tools under the team’s purview • Reviewing, refining and triaging alerts triggered from our IDS, vulnerability management tools,and other monitoring platforms • Participating in Security on-call rotation • Building connections with members from other teams through active networking and community building to help foster a security-first culture Within 6 months, you’ll be making a clear impact through: • Improving the security tooling and telemetry used at Sprout • Identifying security gaps within our systems, present plans to mitigate risks, and work with teams to get them prioritized within their workstreams • Regularly evaluating and reporting security health around our SDLC and providing recommendations • Having your first performance conversation with your manager, where you’ll discuss your accomplishments in your role and work together to build goals for your professional growth • Partnering with engineering, IT and other teams to continuously improve our ability to deliver reliable and secure services Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by: • Becoming a go-to expert and security representative within Sprout • Helping define and build the security roadmap for future work • Working and effectively communicating with other groups across the organization to ensure big-picture alignment and encourage cross-team collaboration • Owning cross-organizational projects, demonstrating project management skills, consensus building, and strong leadership • Contributing to in-house technical presentations, employee onboarding, and workshops that share your expertise with large groups of Sprout employees • Surprise us! Use your unique ideas and abilities to change Sprout Security in beneficial ways that we haven’t considered yet Of course what is outlined above is the ideal timeline, but things may shift based on business needs and other projects and tasks could be added at the discretion of your manager. Our Benefits Program We’re proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product and culture. Our benefits program includes: • Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families • Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program • High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best • Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team • Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program and employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. • Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members • Beautiful, convenient, and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago’s Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting

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