Senior Application Security Engineer - Remote

Overview

As an application security engineer at Confluent, you will join a team of security architects and engineers responsible for defining and executing on the security strategy of our product for both on-prem offerings and Cloud services. You will ensure that security is embedded in how we build our products from design and development to testing to how we run them in the cloud, and partner with product and engineering teams to strategically guard against existing or emerging threats.

In Short

• Drive and influence software security across the organization by partnering with key stakeholders throughout Confluent.
• Keep up to date with emerging security vulnerability classes.
• Perform security threat modeling and design reviews.
• Conduct product security feature specific implementation reviews.
• Enhance security automation and tooling.
• Propose, design, build, and deploy security solutions.
• Identify opportunities for additional technology controls.

Requirements

• A data-driven, decision-making mindset.
• 4+ years of relevant application security industry experience.
• Strong knowledge of security fundamentals.
• Experience with common software development stacks and CI/CD systems.
• Experience reading and writing code for software automation (preferably in GoLang, Python, Java).
• Experience working with distributed teams.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and provide effective leadership.
• Decision-maker with autonomy.
• Ability to oversee numerous initiatives collaboratively.

Benefits

• Belonging isn’t a perk; it’s the baseline.
• Work across time zones and backgrounds.
• Space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.
• Equal opportunity workplace.