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About the role
This is application security with real ownership. You’ll partner directly with engineering leaders and architects, influence how products are designed and delivered, and combine deep security craft with emerging AI capabilities. The fundamentals matter here: AI is a force multiplier, but great security judgment comes first. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Substantial application or product security experience , with a track record of partnering directly with software engineering teams
- Deep practical capability in threat modeling and manual code review for web and microservice environments
- Strong understanding of difficult application-security problems such as authorization, multi-tenant isolation, and business-logic vulnerabilities
- Hands-on experience operating application security tooling for source-code analysis, dependency analysis, dynamic testing, and secret detection , including configuration, tuning, pipeline integration, and finding triage
- The technical judgment to distinguish a noisy security finding from an exploitable risk and explain the remediation clearly
- Experience creating automation or engineering tooling for vulnerability management. Applying large language models or agents to security workflows is especially valuable
More about this role
Pax8 is hiring a Senior Application Security Engineer in the United States to help secure the cloud marketplace, financial platforms, and agentic AI products powering our next chapter.
This is application security with real ownership. You’ll partner directly with engineering leaders and architects, influence how products are designed and delivered, and combine deep security craft with emerging AI capabilities. The fundamentals matter here: AI is a force multiplier, but great security judgment comes first.
Pax8 is evolving quickly, and our Platform Security team is growing alongside our product landscape. You’ll join a small, collaborative remote team where you’re trusted to take ownership, work independently, and bring security into engineering conversations early.
We’re building at the intersection of cloud, security, automation, and AI. Get to know more about Pax8 and explore our latest developments in the Pax8 US Newsroom .
- Be a trusted security partner to your product area, working alongside engineering leads and architects to influence secure design and implementation.
- Lead practical threat modeling , helping teams understand where risk lives and turning that insight into...
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