Applications Security Engineer

Ladder is hiring an Applications Security Engineer to lead application vulnerability management within its engineering teams and strengthen security across development lifecycles. The role also covers cloud security operations and incident response, security risk reviews and compliance support, workspace security, and promoting secure coding practices.

Responsibilities:

• Partner directly with development teams to champion application security vulnerability management. You will triage vulnerabilities within a high-scale Clojure ecosystem and assist with remediation code fixes
• Configure, fine-tune, and monitor our cloud security posture leveraging Security Operations tools (SIEM, SOAR, CSP, CNAPP) to detect and respond to threats in real time
• Conduct thorough Security Reviews and risk assessments on internal architecture, third-party vendors, and APIs to ensure alignment with our corporate risk tolerance and compliance standards
• Maintain and optimize our day-to-day corporate workspace security, ensuring identity access management, device compliance, and productivity tools are highly secure yet frictionless for the team
• Act as a security advocate across teams. Mentor engineers on secure coding practices, establish secure defaults, and make practical risk decisions that scale with our growth

Requirements:

• The ideal candidate is well-rounded and has the ability to interact with all levels of management and external auditors, and operate effectively in a rapidly scaling, dynamic environment
• We are looking for someone who is organized, self-motivated, has excellent problem-solving and writing skills, and enjoys working with people in a challenging and fast-paced environment
• Ladder is not currently sponsoring or transferring OPT or H1-B visa's
• 4+ years of software engineering and/or cybersecurity experience, backed by a strong foundation in Computer Science, Cyber Security, or a related field
• Hands-on working within the JVM environment
• You are comfortable reading functional code, understanding immutable data structures, and collaborating directly with backend engineers on code-level fixes
• Hands-on experience securing modern cloud infrastructures, as well as experience working incident response
• Thrive in dynamic environments
• You don't just clear alerts; you look for the root cause of issues to design security frameworks that prevent entire classes of vulnerabilities from happening in the first place
• Hold baseline certifications such as CompTIA Security+ or equivalents
• Having an advanced credential like the CISSP is highly preferred and considered a major plus