Senior Application Security Engineer

About us

Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines comprehensive insurance coverage and innovative cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate potential cyberattacks.   

Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real—and happening daily at Coalition.

 

About the role

As a Senior Application Security Engineer, you'll be central to shaping Coalition’s product and engineering culture by embedding security throughout our technology. You’ll look beyond individual vulnerabilities to identify and implement the strategic solutions that both reduce risk and increase Engineering velocity.  You’ll be a trusted partner to the engineering team at the earliest stages of exciting projects involving AI and other new technologies.  Finally, you will gain broad experience through the operational responsibilities, such as bug bounty and incident response, which are core to a modern application security progam. If you’re excited about proactively defending applications and sharing your expertise to create lasting security improvements, come join us!

Responsibilities

• Perform technical security assessments, code and design reviews.
• Develop internal application security solutions including CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentor and train engineers to build secure products.
• Implement automated, proactive security measures (e.g., SAST/DAST/Frameworks)
• Help run offensive pen-testing operations.

Skills and Qualifications

• At least 5+ years of direct experience either working on or guiding an application security team
• Good understanding of computer science fundamentals and at least one programming language (preferably Python or Go)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with demonstrated examples of influencing others.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and handle ambiguity.

Bonus Skills

• Bug bounty management
• Teaching experience
• Incident response

Compensation

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The US base salary for this position ranges from $151,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $202,000/year in our highest geographic market. Consistent with applicable laws, an employee's pay within this range is based on a number of factors, which include but are not limited to relevant education, skills, job-related knowledge, qualifications, work experience, credentials, and/or geographic location. Your recruiter can share more on target salary for your location during the interview process. Coalition, Inc. reserves the right to modify this range as needed.

Perks

• 100% medical, dental and vision coverage
• Flexible PTO policy
• Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
• Mental & physical health wellness programs (One Medical, Headspace, Wellhub, and more)!
• Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement

 

Why Coalition? 

Work at Coalition is centered on the joint mission to Protect the Unprotected. We have built a remote-first, highly inclusive culture that welcomes people from diverse backgrounds. We trust each other to take responsibility, share ownership of outcomes, and put in the work together to protect businesses from digital risk. Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes while remaining true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion.

We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.

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