AlphaSense
SeniorApplicationSecurityEngineer
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“Senior Application Security Engineer at AlphaSense. Skills: Application Security, AI Security, Agentic Development, Cloud Security. Forensic investigation. Architectural containment”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; False-positive tuning; Troubleshooting
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
6+ years engineering experience, 4+ years AI AppSec/Product Security, SaaS or cloud-native company, Not consulting/audit background, Hands-on recent development background, Write code, not just review, Read PRs fluently, Comfortable in Terraform, Comfortable in Helm, Comfortable in Kubernetes manifests, Production SAST/SCA pipeline operation, Rule authoring, False-positive tuning, CI/CD integration, Demonstrated ownership of threat modeling, Demonstrated ownership of developer security training, Layered security thinking, Defense-in-depth across layers, Author policy, Author guidance, Author runbooks, Author PR comments
Nice to Have
Open-source contributions, Shipping deterministic compliance gate, API security experience, DAST experience, Modern container security, Kubernetes security, AWS security depth, AI/ML production environments exposure, Customer-facing posture dashboard, DDQ response process, Public writing on developer security, Public writing on AI/agent security, Public writing on AppSec automation, Pre-IPO experience, Familiarity with SOC 2 Type II, Familiarity with ISO 27001:2022, Familiarity with ISO 42001, Familiarity with SOX, Familiarity with GDPR
What You'll Do.
Forensic investigation
Architectural containment
Post-incident hardening
Build agentic tooling
Integrate agentic tooling
Operate agentic tooling
Integrate Claude Code
Work with autonomous coding agents
Build autonomous coding agents
Harden autonomous coding agents
Operate SAST pipeline
Tune SAST false-positives
Integrate SAST into CI/CD
Tune SCA false-positives
Integrate SCA into CI/CD
Develop threat modeling program
Develop developer security training
Design for compounding control
Design for redundant control
Author policy documents
Author guidance documents
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional partnerships; Senior IC team
Communication Scope
Written communication; Technical writing
Full Job Description
About AlphaSense: The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S leading the forensic investigation, architectural containment, and post-incident hardening requirements. What You Bring Required 6+ years engineering experience, with 4+ in a dedicated AI Application Security / Product Security role at a SaaS or cloud-native company. Not a consulting / audit background. Development background , hands-on and recent. You write code, not just review it. You can read PRs fluently in at least two of Python, TypeScript / JavaScript, Java / Kotlin, or Go, and you are comfortable in Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes manifests. Hands-on experience with agentic AI and MCP development. You have personally built with, integrated, or operated agentic tooling. Examples that qualify: built an MCP server; integrated Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot into a real engineering workflow under governance; worked with autonomous coding agents or harnesses; built or hardened an agent gateway; shipped guardrails for prompt injection, jailbreak resistance, or output sanitization in production. Production operation of a SAST / SCA pipeline at scale , Snyk, Semgrep, G
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