# Application Security Engineer (X Money)

**Company**: SpaceXAI
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $100,000 - $258,000 USD
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

SpaceXAI is seeking a skilled and innovative Application Security Engineer to join 𝕏 Money. In this role, you will protect the security and integrity of payments and financial products throughout the software development lifecycle, focusing on code security, CI/CD pipelines, and systems handling customer funds.

## Responsibilities:

- Conduct in-depth code reviews and static analysis to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities in financial applications.

- Design and implement secure coding guidelines and best practices for development teams.

- Collaborate with development teams to integrate security practices throughout the CI/CD pipeline.

- Perform threat modeling and risk assessments for payments, wallets, ledgers, and related product surfaces, developing mitigation strategies for fraud, abuse, and unauthorized fund movements.

- Manage vulnerability tracking and remediation efforts, providing guidance to development teams.

- Manage the bug bounty program, including intake, triage, researcher communication, and coordinated disclosure.

- Support incident response activities related to application security.

- Stay current on emerging threats against financial and cloud-native systems, continuously strengthening controls.

- Evaluate and secure software supply chains, including producing and maintaining Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs).

- Design and implement agentic and LLM-based solutions to detect, investigate, or prevent security problems.

## Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field.

- 3-5 years of experience in application security, with a strong focus on code security practices.

- Experience in payments, money transmission, digital wallets, or related financial platforms.

- Deep understanding of secure coding practices, application security frameworks, and common vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP Top 10).

- Proficiency in Python or Rust and experience with secure coding practices in these languages.

- Experience securing CI/CD pipelines and implementing DevSecOps practices.

- Familiarity with software supply chain security and SBOM generation tools.

- Experience with security testing tools (e.g., Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP) and static/dynamic code analysis.

- Experience securing payments, wallets, ledgers, or other high-value transaction systems, including controls against fraud, abuse, and integrity issues.

- Experience designing and implementing agentic and LLM-based solutions for security problems.

- Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex security issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.

## Preferred Skills and Experience:

- Hands-on experience securing applications on AWS; familiarity with other cloud platforms is a plus.

- Relevant security certifications (e.g., BSCP, OSCP, OSWE).

- Experience managing bug bounty programs.

- Background in data privacy and compliance relevant to financial products and cloud-native applications.

- Experience with GitOps and infrastructure-as-code security.

- Experience building custom security tooling to enhance and automate security processes.

- Contributions to open-source security projects or tools.

## Compensation and Benefits:

$100,000 - $258,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Rust
- OWASP Top 10
- CI/CD pipelines
- DevSecOps
- Software supply chain security
- SBOM generation
- Burp Suite
- OWASP ZAP
- Secure coding practices
- Application security frameworks

### Nice to have
- AWS
- Cloud platforms
- BSCP
- OSCP
- OSWE
- GitOps
- Infrastructure-as-code security
- Custom security tooling
- Open-source security projects

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