Senior Engineer – Cybersecurity Application Security (AI)

Location: Irving, TX, United States

Company

hirify.global operates in financial services and is hiring for application security engineering.

What you will do

• Implement, administer, and continuously improve application security platforms supporting secure software development.
• Integrate security testing and automated controls into CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows.
• Develop and maintain application security standards, policies, procedures, documentation, and operational guidance.
• Analyze security findings, operational metrics, and compliance trends to identify risks and improvement opportunities.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, platform, and cybersecurity stakeholders to advance secure-by-design and secure-by-default practices.
• Support secure SDLC governance, vulnerability management, remediation tracking, and security automation initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of application security engineering experience.
• Experience with SAST, DAST, SCA, IAST, container security, API security testing, and software supply chain security platforms.
• Experience securing APIs across their lifecycle, including discovery, authentication and authorization validation, schema and contract testing, abuse-case analysis, OWASP API Security Top 10 risks, and remediation guidance.
• Experience integrating security tooling and controls into CI/CD pipelines using infrastructure as code, as well as supporting secure SDLC governance and compliance reporting.
• Strong knowledge of application security principles, secure coding, OWASP Top 10 risks, vulnerability remediation, technical documentation, and stakeholder communication.

Nice to have

• CSSLP, GSEC, CISSP, GWAPT, or a similar industry certification.
• Experience in financial services, banking, or other highly regulated environments.
• Experience governing security controls for AI-assisted development, including code-generation tools, prompt and output handling, developer guardrails, and risk monitoring.
• Experience with security automation, scripting, workflow orchestration, and security metrics dashboards.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment.
• Collaboration with cybersecurity, architecture, platform, and engineering stakeholders.
• Opportunity to improve application security maturity and reduce manual operational effort through automation.