Application Security Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Palo Alto, CA; Austin, TX; New York, NY; or Washington, DC

Base salary: $100,000–$258,000 USD per year

Company

xAI develops AI systems focused on understanding the universe and advancing human knowledge.

What you will do

• Conduct code reviews, static analysis, vulnerability tracking, and remediation for financial applications.
• Define secure coding standards and integrate security practices into CI/CD pipelines.
• Perform threat modeling and risk assessments for payments, wallets, ledgers, and other high-value transaction systems.
• Develop controls against fraud, abuse, unauthorized transfers, and integrity issues.
• Manage the bug bounty program and support incident response activities.
• Secure software supply chains, maintain SBOMs, and build agentic and LLM-based security solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of application security experience focused on code security.
• Experience with payments, money transmission, digital wallets, ledgers, or comparable financial platforms.
• Strong knowledge of secure coding, application security frameworks, OWASP Top 10, and Python or Rust.
• Experience with CI/CD security, DevSecOps, software supply chain security, SBOM tools, Burp Suite or OWASP ZAP, and static/dynamic analysis.
• Must satisfy U.S. ITAR eligibility requirements: U.S. citizenship or nationality, lawful permanent residence, refugee or asylee status, or eligibility to obtain required U.S. authorizations.

Nice to have

• Experience securing applications on AWS, with GitOps and infrastructure-as-code security.
• Security certifications such as BSCP, OSCP, or OSWE.
• Experience managing bug bounty programs, financial data privacy and compliance, or building custom security tooling.
• Contributions to open-source security projects or tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Small, highly motivated organization with a flat structure and hands-on engineering culture.
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan, short- and long-term disability insurance, and life insurance.
• Equity, discounts, and additional employee perks.