Senior Application Security Engineer

Branch Metrics - Austin, TX

Full-time - Senior

Austin, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

At Branch, we're transforming how brands and users interact across digital platforms. Our mobile marketing and deep linking solutions are trusted to deliver seamless experiences that increase ROI, decrease wasted spend, and eliminate siloed attribution. Our Branch team consists of smart, humble, and collaborative people who value ownership over all. Everything we do is centered around creating a great product, team, and company that lives and breathes our motto: Build Together, Grow Together, Win Together. We are seeking an experienced, Senior Application Security Engineer reporting directly to the Head of Security. The ideal candidate will bring a combination of strong technical skills, experience with application security, and ability to collaborate with the Engineering team. This position will have a significant impact on maturing our SDLC and implementing security best practices. This important role will help develop and implement the security champions program within our Engineering organization and drive security maturity across the organization. As a Senior Application Security Engineer, you'll get to work with the engineering team to assess current secure SDLC processes and make recommendations on security best practices. You will collaborate with the security team on developing and implementing the Security Champions program, demonstrating subject matter expertise in AppSec, DAST, SAST, SCA/SBOM, OWASP Top 10, API Security, and other relevant areas. You will identify tools for code scanning and work with Engineers on procedures for code testing, respond to vulnerabilities from our bug bounty program, and drive remediation with Engineering teams. Additionally, you will work with Engineering and Product teams on identity and access management to systems and tools to ensure the principle of least privilege, assist with the sales enablement process, and participate in compliance efforts such as SOC2, ISO, and HIPAA/HITRUST audits. Educating the Engineering team on secure coding practices and procedures will also be a key part of your role.

Responsibilities

• Work with the engineering team to assess current secure SDLC processes and make recommendations on security best practices.
• Collaborate with the security team on developing and implementing the Security Champions program.
• Demonstrate subject matter expertise in AppSec, DAST, SAST, SCA/SBOM, OWASP Top 10, API Security and other relevant areas.
• Identify tools for code scanning and work with Engineers on procedures for code testing.
• Respond to vulnerabilities from our bug bounty program and drive remediation with Engineering teams.
• Work with Engineering and Product teams on identity and access management to systems and tools to ensure principle of least privilege.
• Assist with the sales enablement process and participate on customer calls to address remediation efforts.
• Participate in compliance efforts such as SOC2, ISO, and HIPAA/HITRUST audits.
• Educate the Engineering team on secure coding practices and procedures.

Requirements

• At least 5+ years experience as a Security Engineer focusing on application security, infrastructure security, or security operations.
• Bachelor's / master's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, (or equivalent experience).
• Experience in the following domains: APIs Security, Vulnerability Scan, compliance and threat detection, OWASP Top 10 API Security, Web App Security, AppSec, SAST, DAST, and SCA (Software composition analysis).
• Experience with different enterprise components to publish and use APIs (e.g., API Gateways, Microservices, Cloud Components).
• Experience with Mobile application development and SDKs.
• Experience with security testing for server-side SDKs.
• Experience with API security testing, vulnerability scan and compliance reporting.
• Experience with OWASP Top 10 for Web App & APIs.
• Experience with OpenAPI, and other common formats for organizing and functionally testing REST APIs.
• Excellent analytical, written, and verbal communication skills - capable of explaining complex requirements in simple words.
• Comfortable with conflicts and capable of influencing cross-functional teams.
• Any programming or integration experience in the past will be highly beneficial.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge or experience with deep linking technologies.
• Experience with regulatory and compliance frameworks such as NIST, SOC2, ISO, PCI, and HIPAA.