# Senior Application Security Engineer (Red Team) at Altruist

- Company: Altruist
- What the company does: The AI-forward wealth platform and custodian that unifies account opening, trading, portfolio management, billing, and reporting. Backed by Insight and ICONIQ.
- Company website: https://altruist.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-23
- Apply: https://altruist.com/join-altruist/6186195004?gh_jid=6186195004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/altruist-senior-application-security-engineer-red-team-2/

## About the role

We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all. If you're passionate about challenging the status quo and want to do the most important work of your life, we'd love to meet you!

## What they're looking for

- Break security controls continuously so we can build them better each time
- Perform focused authorization and exploitability assessments on high-risk attack paths
- Conduct cloud pentests and identity-focused offensive testing
- Run purple-team exercises with Detection & Response and help build detections from your tradecraft
- Develop and maintain offensive tooling and repeatable testing playbooks, contribute to phishing and social-engineering assessments
- Document findings with reproducible proofs-of-concept, clear risk ratings, and actionable remediation guidance

Tags: Engineering