Lead Application Security Engineer

Job Title: Lead Application Security Engineer Job Location: Remote in USA & Canada (offices in SF, NY, and Austin) Salary: $220K - $320K Visa Sponsorship : Open to visa transfers (e.g. OPT, H1B transfers) Equity : Competitive Equity Tech Stack : TypeScript, Go, Cloud: Multi-cloud across AWS, Azure, and GCP HRforGrowth® is engaged as the talent acquisition partner to conduct this search on behalf of a client organization that is hiring for this role. HRforGrowth is not the employer for this position. HRforGrowth identifies, evaluates, and presents top-tier candidates through its global talent acquisition practice; all employment decisions — including final selection, offer terms, compensation, and conditions of employment — are made solely by the hiring organization. Position Summary: They'll work closely with our VP of Engineering and own application security end-to-end. Some problems they'll be working on include multi-tenant isolation, sub-tenant access control, cloud security across multi-region/multi-cloud infrastructure, and internet-facing APIs processing 100K+ events/sec . Role Requirements Seeking a security engineer with a computer science background. Candidate should ideally be an early hire or have experience building security practices from the ground up . Candidate Requirements Must pass technical interviews and have experience with application security. Experience with data infrastructure or security-centric companies like Okta is beneficial . Ideal Candidate Profile Looking for candidates with fast growth, impact, and lead role experience. Seniority Minimum of 6 years of experience as a security engineer with deep knowledge of distributed systems Work experience Been an early security hire (first 3) at a SaaS product or data infrastructure company Must have gone from Backend software engineer -​>​ Security engineer Education CS,​ Math,​ or Physics degree Hard skills Expereince securing systems across multi-​cloud and/or multi-​region infrastructure Se