Application Security Engineer

Appsecops Engineer

The Application Security Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the technical infrastructure that enables scalable application security across the organization. This role bridges software engineering and security disciplines to embed security capabilities directly into development workflows, automate security processes, and create developer-friendly tooling that makes secure development the natural path forward. The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on engineering skills alongside deep application security expertise and a passion for reducing friction without compromising protection.

This role requires a highly self-motivated individual who operates with full ownership and initiative, consistently driving work forward independently without the need for close supervision or repeated direction.

Software Engineering Proficiency

• Proficiency in modern programming languages commonly used in security tooling and automation (Java and JavaScript/TypeScript/Python)
• Demonstrated ability to design, build, test, and maintain production-quality code
• Experience writing maintainable, well-documented, and properly tested code
• Familiarity with version control practices, code review processes, and software development lifecycle disciplines

CI/CD and DevSecOps Experience

• Hands-on experience integrating security scanning tools into CI/CD pipelines using platforms such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or comparable tooling
• Experience configuring security gates with break and warn thresholds
• Demonstrated ability to manage pipeline performance optimization

Security Tooling and Automation

• Demonstrated experience building or customizing security tools
• Experience developing custom parsers or integrations for security tool outputs
• Ability to automate vulnerability triage and routing workflows
• Experience working with APIs to expose or consume security capabilities programmatically
• Familiarity with commercial security platforms and the ability to extend them through custom rules, policies, or plugins

Developer Experience and Enablement

• Experience creating tooling or integrations that improve the developer security experience
• Demonstrated ability to build pre-commit hooks, IDE extensions or plugins, command-line utilities, or developer-facing dashboards and portals
• Ability to surface security findings in actionable, contextually relevant ways

Infrastructure and Platform Administration

• Working knowledge of maintaining security tool infrastructure including monitoring tool health and availability
• Experience managing upgrades and patch cycles and troubleshooting complex platform issues
• Experience with cloud infrastructure fundamentals, containerization platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tooling

Communication and Documentation

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to produce clear, comprehensive technical documentation
• Experience creating architecture decision records, runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and onboarding materials
• Ability to present technical concepts to both engineering and non-engineering audiences

Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels in the company.