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Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including geographic location as well as candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.\r\nSenior Application Security Engineer At Handshake, we believe security should be built into the product, not layered on after the fact. We're looking for a Senior Application Security Engineer who's excited to shape how security shows up in the developer experience, and enable our engineering teams to ship secure code without compromising on velocity.\r\nAbout the Role As a Senior Application Security Engineer, you'll play a critical role in protecting Handshake's users and their data. You'll work closely with our engineering, platform, and cloud teams to make the secure way the easy way and embed security directly into how software gets designed, written, and shipped.\r\nThis role is on our Cloud Security squad on our Infra & Platform team and is an engineering forward role. You'll be building systems, tools, and automation that make secure development the default. You'll bring a modern, opinionated perspective on how application security should work in a cloud-native, AI-enabled environment.\r\nWhat You'll Do Own and grow key areas of our Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) like threat modeling, security reviews, and vulnerability management.\r\nWork collaboratively with and be a trusted partner for engineering teams.\r\nEliminate whole classes of vulnerabilities by building secure by default libraries and tools into our platform.\r\nRaise the bar for security awareness by teaching others and sharing your knowledge through\r\nDesign and build developer facing tooling to help engineers identify and fix security issues before they make it to production.\r\nScale your impact and security knowledge by teaching others, automating processes, and leveraging AI and agentic tooling.\r\nBalance security and speed by using your judgement and expertise to add the right amount of security to our SDLC.\r\nHelp respond to potential security incidents as a member of the security on-call rotation.\r\nWhat We're Looking For A builder mindset and experience working on large codebases and safely shipping code to production.\r\nStrong understanding of common application security risks (OWASP Top 10) and how to mitigate them.\r\nA pragmatic and empathetic approach to security controls that favors guidance over blocking and influence over mandates.\r\nStrong communication skills and the ability to communicate security risks and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences.\r\nExperience with threat modeling and risk assessments.\r\nFamiliarity with securing and running software in a major cloud provider.\r\nCuriosity and a desire to use AI and agenting tooling to scale your and the security team's impact.\r\nNice to Haves Experience working in Google Cloud (GCP)\r\nExperience writing production code in the most popular languages at Handshake: Ruby, Typescript and Go.\r\nExperience building agentic systems to solve security problems.\r\nWhy This Role You'll have real ownership over how application security is built and scaled at Handshake. 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