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Sr. Staff Back-End AppSec Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
13 days ago
Salary
$184K - $230K / year
Seniority
Lead
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Sr. Staff Back-End AppSec Engineer
SentinelOne
Role Description As a Sr. Staff Back-End AppSec Engineer, you will be tasked with becoming the trusted advisor customers turn to on Python and NodeJs stacks when the stakes are highest. You'll work directly on top of the output of our agentic code scanning pipeline, validate findings with human judgment, deliver results to diverse technical and leadership audiences, and shape the methodology that scales the practice. What Will You Do? - Lead Wayfinder Frontier AI Services customer engagements end-to-end, scope the work, deliver the technical findings, and present results to executive and technical stakeholders. - Review and triage findings from our agentic code scanning pipeline against customer Python and JS codebases. Validate true positives, eliminate noise, and ensure every finding that reaches the customer is a decision they can act on. - Conduct deep code review across Python and Node.js code and common frameworks. - Present findings to stakeholders, translate technical risk into business impact and map exposures into end-to-end exploitation chains. - Author and maintain SAST rule packs that scale across the customer base, and partner with our AI/ML engineers to improve our agentic scanning engine. - Provide expert remediation guidance to customer development teams and validate fixes through follow-up review. - Work closely with our engineering teams to enhance our agentic code scanning pipeline, and reduce false positives. - Mentor Senior-level AppSec engineers and dev-skilled threat hunters; raise the technical bar of the practice and shape the service line's methodology, engagement playbooks, and scoping templates. Qualifications - 7+ years in application security or product security with a strong software development background. - Proven track record translating complex findings into technical and executive-level debriefs. Excellent written and verbal communication is essential. - Experience delivering customer-facing or consulting-style engagements end-to-end, comfortable in a distributed remote organization. - Expert-level Python backend stack; Django, Flask, FastAPI. - Expert-level Node.js / TypeScript; Express, NestJS. - Working knowledge of front-end framework (React, Next.js, or Angular) and can follow how auth, CSRF, and data move between the client and the API. - Mastery of OWASP Top 10, CWE Top 25, and modern authentication infrastructure (SAML, OAuth, OIDC, JWT internals). - Hands-on experience authoring custom static-analysis rules and queries for modern SAST engines; familiarity with AI-assisted code review workflows and validating findings produced by automated and agentic analysis pipelines. - Working knowledge of Python and JS packaging and dependency-resolution behaviors (pip/Poetry/uv; npm/pnpm/yarn) and the supply-chain failure modes specific to each. - Fluency with Git-based source control and CI/CD pipelines, including build-pipeline security controls, runner hardening, and release-gate enforcement. - Experience with AI accelerated development / code scanning methodologies. Benefits - Equity & Rewards - Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) - Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) - Time Off & Wellbeing - Flexible time off - Paid company holidays and paid sick time - Gender-neutral parental leave - Grandparent leave - Insurance & Financial Security - Medical, dental, and vision coverage - 401(k) retirement plan with company match - Life and disability insurance - Health and dependent care FSA - Voluntary benefits (hospital, accident, critical illness) - Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - ARAG pre-paid legal - Nationwide pet insurance - Cancer Care program - Global business travel medical insurance - Work Perks & Flexibility - Home office allowance - Mobile phone reimbursement - Wellness & Lifestyle - Wellness coach - Wellness/gym reimbursement - Fertility coverage - Adoption & surrogacy reimbursement
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Role Description As a Sr. Staff Back-End AppSec Lead, you will be tasked with: - Acting as a trusted advisor to customers by reviewing and validating AI-generated findings on Java and .NET back-end systems during high-stakes security engagements. - Working directly with SentinelOne’s agentic code scanning pipeline to analyze vulnerabilities, apply expert human judgment, and communicate actionable results to both technical teams and executive stakeholders. - Helping build and scale the Wayfinder Frontier AI Services practice by refining methodologies, improving AI-assisted exposure management workflows, and collaborating with elite offensive and defensive security experts. What Will You Do? Primary responsibilities include: - Lead Wayfinder Frontier AI Services customer engagements end-to-end, scope the work, deliver the technical findings, and present results to executive and technical stakeholders. - Review and triage findings from our agentic code scanning pipeline against customer Java and .NET codebases. Validate true positives, eliminate noise, and ensure every finding that reaches the customer is a decision they can act on. - Conduct deep code review across Java and .Net code and common frameworks. - Present findings to stakeholders, translate technical risk into business impact and map exposures into end-to-end exploitation chains. - Author and maintain SAST rule packs that scale across the customer base, and partner with our AI/ML engineers to improve our agentic scanning engine. - Provide expert remediation guidance to customer development teams and validate fixes through follow-up review. - Work closely with our engineering teams to enhance our agentic code scanning pipeline, and reduce false positives. - Mentor Senior-level AppSec engineers and dev-skilled threat hunters; raise the technical bar of the practice and shape the service line's methodology, engagement playbooks, and scoping templates. Qualifications - 7+ years in application security or product security with a strong software development background. - Proven track record translating complex findings into technical and executive-level debriefs. Excellent written and verbal communication is essential. - Experience delivering customer-facing or consulting-style engagements end-to-end, comfortable in a distributed remote organization. - Expert-level Java / Spring, you've identified and explained vulnerabilities at the framework level, not just the application level. - Expert-level .NET Framework and ASP.NET Core, vulnerabilities and secure coding methodologies. - Mastery of OWASP Top 10, CWE Top 25, and modern authentication infrastructure (SAML, OAuth, OIDC, JWT internals). - Hands-on experience authoring custom static-analysis rules and queries for modern SAST engines; familiarity with AI-assisted code review workflows and validating findings produced by automated and agentic analysis pipelines. - Strong threat modeling experience throughout the secure SDLC. - Fluency with Git-based source control and CI/CD pipelines, including build-pipeline security controls, runner hardening, and release-gate enforcement. - Experience with AI accelerated development / code scanning methodologies. Benefits - Equity & Rewards: Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) - Time Off & Wellbeing: Flexible time off, Paid company holidays and paid sick time, Gender-neutral parental leave, Grandparent leave - Insurance & Financial Security: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k) retirement plan with company match, Life and disability insurance, Health and dependent care FSA, Voluntary benefits (hospital, accident, critical illness), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), ARAG pre-paid legal, Nationwide pet insurance, Cancer Care program, Global business travel medical insurance - Work Perks & Flexibility: Home office allowance, Mobile phone reimbursement - Wellness & Lifestyle: Wellness coach, Wellness/gym reimbursement, Fertility coverage, Adoption & surrogacy reimbursement Base Salary Range $184,000 — $235,000 USD
• Experience with cloud computing (AWS, GCP, OCI and/or Azure). • Strong knowledge of Linux and systems administration. • Experience with containerization, Kubernetes (k8s) and Helm. • Knowledge of infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform / Terragrunt / CloudFormation). • Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo CD). • Experience with web servers (Apache, Nginx). • Scripting knowledge (Shell and/or Python). • Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, OCI and/or GCP). • Knowledge of Grafana. • Previous experience in high-scale environments.
- Garantir a disponibilidade, escalabilidade e desempenho das aplicações e serviços; - Implementar e evoluir práticas de **observabilidade**, incluindo métricas, logs e traces; - Criar e manter **dashboards (dashs)** para acompanhamento de indicadores de saúde dos sistemas; - Definir e gerenciar **alarmísticas**, com foco em alertas eficientes e redução de ruído; - Atuar na identificação e resolução de incidentes, realizando análise de causa raiz (RCA); - Trabalhar em conjunto com times de desenvolvimento para melhoria contínua (DevOps); - Automatizar rotinas operacionais e processos de monitoração; - Apoiar a definição e acompanhamento de SLIs, SLOs e SLAs; - Contribuir para a cultura de confiabilidade e engenharia de resiliência.
• Analyze, design, develop and implement high-quality software solutions; • Work closely with the team ensuring continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD); • Actively participate in agile ceremonies, ensuring alignment between technical objectives and business goals; • Develop and maintain applications using Microsoft technologies; • Build and evolve APIs, WebServices and system integrations; • Work on automation of pipelines and DevOps processes; • Identify, analyze and resolve technical and operational issues; • Ensure application stability, scalability and performance; • Contribute to the continuous improvement of development and deployment processes; • Work with cloud solutions, preferably Azure; • Use code assistants and AI to accelerate feature development; • Create effective prompts for code generation, refactoring and documentation; • Critically validate code and suggestions generated by AI before approval; • Ensure best practices for security and data privacy when using public and private AI


