# Senior Application Security Engineer

**Company**: Airbnb
**Location**: United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $196,000-$227,000 USD
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63327

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**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_fdaa373d-25e

## Description

As a Senior Application Security Engineer at Airbnb, you will own the security partnership with one or more product engineering areas, lead high-impact security initiatives, and be the subject matter expert that product engineers and other security engineers turn to for the hardest application security problems.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the identification and elimination of entire classes of application security vulnerabilities by designing and delivering scalable solutions that strengthen Airbnb's defense-in-depth strategy.

- Own the security partnership with one or more product engineering areas: run threat models, design reviews, and code reviews for complex and high-risk systems, set security requirements early in design, and drive them through to launch.

- Lead security initiatives that span multiple teams, from problem definition to measurable outcome, influencing engineering leaders and partner teams without direct authority.

- Act as a subject matter expert and escalation point for the Appsec team; mentor and coach other security engineers and help onboard new team members.

- Educate and empower software engineers to strengthen their security expertise and foster a culture of security awareness throughout Airbnb.

- Investigate, prioritize, and drive the resolution of application security vulnerabilities, including the most complex and highest-risk findings, ensuring timely remediation across Airbnb products.

Requirements:

- Deep understanding of web and mobile application security, including common vulnerabilities, attack vectors, and secure development practices.

- Hands-on software development experience, ideally with Java, JavaScript, Python, and Swift.

- Knowledge of modern frameworks like ReactJS, Dropwizard, and GraphQL.

- Track record of leading security initiatives across multiple teams.

- Strong communication and leadership skills.

- 5+ years of experience in application security or a similar field.

Benefits:

- The base pay range is $196,000-$227,000 USD.

- This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits.

## Skills

### Required
- web application security
- mobile application security
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- Swift
- ReactJS
- Dropwizard
- GraphQL
- threat modeling
- architecture reviews

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