Sr. Application Security Engineer

As a Senior Application Security Engineer, you will help strengthen and scale secure development practices across Gen’s products and platforms. Working closely with engineering, platform and product teams, you’ll help embed security throughout the software development lifecycle while enabling teams to build and deliver software efficiently and securely.

This is a senior individual contributor role where success comes through technical expertise, collaboration and influence. You’ll combine hands-on application security work with ownership of key AppSec initiatives, helping teams identify and reduce risk, improve security tooling and drive measurable security improvements across the organization.

You’ll work across a diverse technology landscape, contributing to security reviews, vulnerability management, developer enablement and the evolution of our application security program. We’re looking for someone who enjoys solving complex security challenges, partnering with engineering teams and using AI to improve security and development workflows.

- Partner with engineering, platform and product teams to integrate security into development workflows and release processes.

- Perform application security reviews, threat modeling and security assessments for new features, services and architectural changes.

- Provide guidance on secure coding practices, vulnerability remediation and application hardening.

- Evaluate, implement and optimize application security tooling, including SAST, DAST and Software Composition Analysis (SCA).

- Integrate security controls and testing into CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows.

- Support vulnerability triage, prioritization and remediation efforts across teams.

- Contribute to incident investigations, root cause analysis and long-term security improvements.

- Develop security standards, documentation, playbooks and developer guidance.

- Define and track security metrics to improve visibility, coverage and risk reduction.

- Evaluate emerging security technologies and help drive adoption of tools that create value for engineering teams.

- Promote secure AI-assisted development practices and responsible use of AI technologies.