Senior Application Security Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote employment available in all US states except Arkansas, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Salary: $120,000–$220,500 annually, depending on location, knowledge, skills, and experience. Performance-based incentives or bonuses may also apply.

Company

hirify.global is a retail company building application security capabilities for its web, mobile, and API ecosystem.

What you will do

• Build secure-by-default patterns and paved-road tooling for engineering pipelines and frameworks.
• Own and tune SAST, SCA, secrets-scanning, and DAST tooling to improve signal quality and route findings into existing engineering workflows.
• Automate security work that does not require human judgment while preserving manual review for higher-risk issues.
• Partner with product engineering, DevOps, penetration testing, attack surface management, and platform security teams.
• Mentor engineers and security champions while raising application security standards across the organization.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in application security, secure software development, or a closely related field, plus a relevant degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience shipping security tooling, automation, or reusable secure-development patterns.
• Expert-level threat modeling, security design review, manual code review, and knowledge of application and API vulnerability classes.
• Ability to read and write code in languages such as Java, Kotlin, C#, or Python.
• Hands-on use of AI for security work, with judgment about when to trust and verify its output.
• Knowledge of LLM and agent risks, including prompt injection, unsafe tool and permission use, data leakage, and cloud-native security across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes.

Nice to have

• Experience with GitHub Advanced Security, JFrog Artifactory, or similar tools.
• Offensive security, vulnerability disclosure, bug bounty, or production software engineering experience.
• Certifications such as CSSLP, CISSP, OSWA, OSWE, GWAPT, or GMOB.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental, life, and disability insurance options.
• Retirement benefits including 401(k).
• Paid time away, PTO accruals, and holidays.
• Merchandise discount and employee assistance resources.