Full-Time Senior Application Security Engineer

Lattice is looking for someone to help our product developers build applications that our customers can use with confidence, knowing that at Lattice we work with strong security principles in mind. This role will work across a breadth of areas including application security, infrastructure security, and software supply chain. This role will involve both developing and managing tools, as well as acting as a consultant and partner for product developers. As such, it requires a balance of technical know-how and strong collaboration skills. Your days will vary, including: reviewing design proposals, writing design proposals, meeting with development teams to discuss their approaches and challenges, developing training materials, heads-down coding, and triaging bugs to understand their risks and remediations. You will also be involved in deciding how work is done and what tools and processes are appropriate.

What You Will Do

• Mentor and advise product development teams in the area of application security
• Assist teams in reproducing, triaging, and addressing application security vulnerabilities
• Assist in the implementation of security processes and automated tooling that prevent classes of security issues
• Design and implement Typescript code libraries and patterns to improve application security
• Perform security-focused code reviews
• Work with infrastructure teams to ensure our systems are secure
• Support the bug bounty program
• Evaluate tools, from SAST/DAST to cloud security analysis tooling, among others
• Lead application security reviews and threat modeling, including code review and dynamic testing
• Help develop security training and socialize the material with product development teams

What You Will Bring to the Table

Experience it’s important for you to have at some level:

• Software development experience, ideally with Javascript/Typescript, or another programming language such as Python or Ruby
• Familiarity with secure coding practices
• Familiarity with security tools and libraries such as static/dynamic analysis tools and penetration testing tools
• Familiarity with and ability to explain common security flaws and ways to address them (e.g. OWASP Top 10)
• Strong understanding and experience with common security libraries, security controls, and common security flaws
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Experience that would be helpful:

• Familiarity with AI/LLMs for enhancing code quality and automating security analysis.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, containerd, etc) and Kubernetes
• Experience developing and operating cloud systems in AWS
• Experience with GraphQL