Application Security Engineer

Salario mediano: $138,500 USD · BLS 2024Aproximadamente $2,424,000 MXN al tipo de cambio actual. Tu banco aplicará el tipo de cambio real al momento de cualquier transacción.

An Application Security Engineer reduces the security risk of the code the company ships. You sit inside or next to engineering teams, not in a silo. Morning you review a PR for a new authentication endpoint; afternoon you triage the SAST backlog; later in the week you pair with a developer to fix a deserialization issue. The role rewards engineers who can read the code as well as write it, who can say 'this is a real risk' or 'this is a noisy finding' with credibility. The work goes badly when AppSec becomes a gate team that says no. It goes well when AppSec ships tools and patterns that make the secure path the easy path.