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Staff Security Engineer, Application Security

NinjaTrader

LocationChicago
ContractFull-time
Anticipated Start Date2026-07-30
Posted22 hours ago

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Staff Security Engineer, Application Security

What you'll do: We're looking for a Staff Security Engineer, Application Security to help scale and mature our security program. You'll own key security domains and initiatives end-to-end, working closely with engineering to ensure systems are secure by design. This role is highly hands-on, with opportunities to drive meaningful impact through automation, secure design, and developer enablement. You'll operate with significant autonomy while partnering with senior engineers and security leadership to scale security across the organization.

In this role you will: Own key security domains such as vulnerability management, application security, API security, and supply chain security

Drive improvements in security coverage, prioritization, and remediation workflows

Partner with engineering teams to integrate security into design reviews, threat modeling, CI/CD pipelines, and developer workflows

Provide actionable, pragmatic guidance that helps teams ship securely

Develop and improve security tooling and automation to reduce manual effort

Implement and tune tools for SAST, SCA, DAST, dependency security, and container security

Leverage AI/LLMs where appropriate to improve triage, detection, and review processes

Triage and prioritize vulnerabilities using risk-based approaches

Partner with teams to ensure timely remediation of critical issues

Help define and improve SLAs, metrics, and reporting

Conduct threat modeling, design reviews, and security assessments

Contribute to incident response and postmortems for security events

Identify and help remediate systemic risks

What you'll need: 7+ years of experience in Application Security, Product Security, or Security Engineering

Strong hands-on experience with threat modeling and secure design

Experience with vulnerability management and application security tooling

Experience working in cloud-native environments such as AWS and GCP

Experience integrating security into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows

Ability to write code in Python, Go, or similar languages for automation and tooling

Strong ability to work cross-functionally with engineering teams

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Job ID: #1871, Published: 22 hours ago, Company registered: 22 hours ago

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