# Staff/Lead Application Security Engineer at Beacon

- Company: Beacon
- What the company does: Beacon acquires and grows essential businesses. With our centralized platform, we empower founders with the technology and expertise to better serve their customers. Backed by General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://beaconsoftware.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/beaconsoftware/2cd0e31a-fc69-455e-b089-98f80078e36f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/beacon-staff-lead-application-security-engineer/

## About the role

You will be Beacon's first dedicated application security engineer. You will set the strategy for product security and start to build the program.

## What they're looking for

- Would rather build a system that finds every instance of a bug than fix one at a time
- Already uses AI as part of how you work, with real opinions on where it helps and where it doesn't, including judgment on when to build tooling versus buy it
- Can set architecture and standards across many codebases, not just review one at a time
- Ships production code yourself. You should be able to author a fix, not only specify it
- Expert knowledge of web and API security, identity and access design (authentication, authorization, RBAC/ABAC), and applied cryptography
- Experience securing applications in cloud environments and containerized workloads

Tags: GRC / IT / Security