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Senior Application Security Engineer

Sardine · United States · Remote

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About Sardine

The top agentic risk platform used by leading banks and merchants worldwide to stop fraud in real-time, prevent AI-driven attacks, automate fraud & AML operations. Backed by a16z and GV.

About the role

Sardine makes risk and payment decisions for banks and fintechs. Our customers audit us closely, and application security is a large part of what they examine. Money moves through this platform, so real adversaries study it. Your job is to find what they would find, especially authorization flaws and business logic abuse, and then make the whole class of bug go away. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Vulnerability management, automated. Experience running vulnerability management end to end, and automating it with code against scanner, ticketing, and source-control APIs
  • An engineering background. You have shipped and maintained real software. You read unfamiliar code quickly, review it rigorously, and reason about architecture and failure modes
  • Ownership to done. You take problems all the way through, including fixes that depend on other teams. You follow up on the fix you recommended three sprints ago
  • Judgment over tenure. We care more about the depth of your judgment than your years of experience
  • Code auditing in at least one of Go, Python, Node.js, Ruby, or Java, and the willingness to work in the rest
  • Practical command of the OWASP Top 10, with real depth in broken access control and business logic flaws
More about this role

Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. Sardine’s platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums in the market, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide. Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.

We hire talented, self-motivated individuals with extreme ownership and high growth orientation.

We value performance and not hours worked. We believe you shouldn't have to miss your family dinner, your kid's school play, friends get-together, or doctor's appointments for the sake of adhering to an arbitrary work schedule.

We're a remote-first team spread across time zones, so no office to report to - work from wherever helps you do your best work. Just a couple of things to keep in mind: pay is based on where you're located, and you'll need to keep a home base in the country you're hired in....

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