Senior Application Security Engineer
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6 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Senior Application Security Engineer will play a key role within the Application Security team providing hands-on technical expertise guidance and enablement to development teams across Featurespace. This position is responsible for enhancing application security by assessing vulnerabilities promoting secure development methods offering guidance on remediation and making sure Visas security standards and requirements are met.
This position requires strong technical capability excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across engineering product and security stakeholders.
Core Responsibilities:
Application Security & Vulnerability Support:
- Review and triage findings from application security tooling including SAST DAST SCA and container scanning solutions.
- Provide technical guidance to development teams to support remediation of vulnerabilities and improve security posture.
- Conduct or support penetration testing and targeted security assessments where appropriate.
- Review and escalate critical application security risks to the appropriate technical and business stakeholders.
Secure Development & Engineering Partnership:
- Support engineering teams in understanding and meeting Visa security standards and requirements.
- Provide coaching best practices and security knowledge sharing to promote secure development across the organization.
- Deliver training sessions for technical and nontechnical groups on application security topics and processes.
Process & Governance:
- Contribute to continuous improvement of application security processes tooling and standards.
- Support exception management including reviewing risk acceptance submissions and documenting decisions.
- Assist with compliance and evidencing requirements related to application security activities.
Collaboration & Communication:
- Partner closely with development DevOps infrastructure and product stakeholders to drive secure design and remediation outcomes.
- Share expertise and mentor other members of the Application Security team.
- Participate in relevant cross-functional forums (e.g. BCWG) where application security topics arise.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
Qualifications :
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Security or related fieldor equivalent hands-on experience.
Demonstrable experience in application security engineering secure development vulnerability management or related security domain.
Familiarity with common AppSec tooling: SAST DAST SCA container scanning and cloud security tools.
Experience supporting compliance or regulatory requirements (e.g. PCI DSS).
Relevant certifications (e.g. OSCP OSWE GWAPT CISSP) are desirable.
Skills & Attributes:
Strong technical proficiency across application security and vulnerability research.
Excellent understanding of secure coding principles common vulnerability classes and modern application architectures.
Strong analytical mindset and critical assessment skills to evaluate findings and advise on secure solutions.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills capable of influencing and guiding engineering teams.
Ability to evolve with the role as technologies threats and team needs change.
Additional Information :
Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- SQL
- .NET
- Debugging
- C/C++
- Go
- Root cause Analysis
- ASP.NET
- C#
- Application Development
- JavaScript
- Teradata
About Company
Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. Our purpose is to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and b ... View more
