Senior Engineer - Application Security

Overview

Senior Engineer - Application Security role to lead and strengthen application security practices across the software development lifecycle, including SAST, SCA and DAST capabilities, penetration testing, and AI-assisted code scanning and secure coding practices.

What you'll do

• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of SAST, SCA and DAST across the application portfolio.
• Lead the Application Security scope and coverage governance process.
• Plan and perform penetration testing of web applications and APIs, validate findings, explain business impact, and support remediation and retesting.
• Embed automated security checks and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows.
• Drive the adoption of AI-assisted code scanning, validate result quality, and improve tooling effectiveness.
• Partner with development and architecture teams on secure design, threat modeling, and remediation of complex vulnerabilities.
• Develop automation using Python, Java or similar languages and integrate security tools through REST APIs.
• Mentor junior team members and act as an escalation point for complex application security issues.
• Track application security risks, remediation progress and key metrics, and communicate priorities to technical and business stakeholders.
• Utilize cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) tools such as Wiz.io to assess and mitigate code and cloud vulnerabilities across AWS, Azure and GCP cloud environments, and conduct regular security assessments to maintain compliance with industry standards.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of hands-on application security experience, including SAST, SCA and DAST.
• Strong experience in penetration testing of web applications and APIs, including manual testing.
• Strong understanding of secure SDLC, OWASP Top 10, CWE, DevSecOps and vulnerability management.
• Coding or scripting skills in Python, Java, or a similar language, with the ability to develop proof-of-concept exploits from scratch and package multi-stage attack chains into automated, repeatable tools.
• Experience integrating security testing into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows.
• Experience with cloud security services and mitigating cloud and code vulnerabilities in multi-cloud environments, including AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to lead cross-functional security initiatives.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI-assisted code scanning or security testing of AI/LLM-enabled applications.
• Relevant certification such as OSCP, GWAPT, CSSLP, CISSP or equivalent.
• Experience supporting an enterprise-scale application security program.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
• Work model is assigned based on core responsibilities (site-essential, site-by-design, field-based or remote-by-design).