Senior Application Security Engineer

As an Application Security Engineer, you will conduct security reviews, and design and prototype new tooling and features across the organization. You will work with architects and engineering teams to guide the implementation of secure practices across different areas like cloud, API, applications and mobile devices. You will provide training in security best practices, and enforce our policies and standards. You will identify trends and risks across multiple platforms, and engage with senior leadership to provide action plans and strategy.

What You'll Do:

• Provide security expertise for cloud, web and mobile projects, helping teams meet the enterprise and IT security policies, industry regulations, and best practices.
• Implement company-wide programs that deploy security patterns and controls across applications and computing environments, together with business resiliency, privacy, and compliance frameworks.
• Work with security and engineering teams to maintain a security architecture that provides security controls throughout all platforms to mitigate risk, and to meet goals and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure the quality of our applications and products by guiding them through the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) process.
• Advocate, research, develop new tools to support our security patterns and standards.
• Monitor our exposure to, and assess the impact of, newsecurity threats, vulnerabilities and risks.

What we are looking for:

• 4+ years' experience in the application security industry, solving security problems in large-scale systems.
• Experience with security design reviews, and threat-modeling exercises.
• Expertise in verifying and measuring common security vulnerabilities, and demonstrated ability in communicating these concepts to your partners in engineering. From the OWASP Top Ten to more advanced concepts, you've seen it before, and can describe it with ease.
• Familiarity with the responsibilities and workflow of software developers and machine learning engineers. The Application Security team works with engineering to meet both business needs and security requirements. You can speak their language, and sympathize with their challenges.
• Facility with implementing standards, e.g., PCI-DSS, ISO, OAuth, NIST Cyber Security framework.
• Basic working knowledge of one or more of the following languages: Java, Scala, Node JS, Typescript, Python, Golang, Rust.

What we would like to see:

• Exposure to most of the following technologies: Google Cloud, iOS, Android, CircleCI, IAM, Snyk, Consul, Kubernetes, Hashicorp Vault, PKI, OPA, React, GraphQL, Thrift, Kafka, and Splunk.
• Working familiarity with one or more LLM platforms: GPT, Gemini, Claude, Llama
• Experience defining security architecture patterns and standards in a large enterprise organization.
• Knowledge of cryptography including algorithms, standards, and their practical applications such as TLS and HMAC.
• Experience performing threat modeling of applications to identify potential security issues.

Benefits at Credit Karma Include:

• Medical and Dental Coverage
• Retirement Plan
• Commuter Benefits
• Wellness perks
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick, Baby Bonding, Cultural Observance, & More)
• Education Perks
• Paid Gift Week in December

Pay Transparency Notice:

Credit Karma’s mission of championing financial progress for all starts from within. That’s why we implemented role-based compensation, which ensures people who are in the same role receive the same pay with variations for geographic location only. It’s all part of a more comprehensive DEI strategy that helps level the playing field. The base salary range for this role is $190,000-$270,000, plus equity and benefits.