Hopper
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SeniorSecurityEngineer
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“Senior Security Engineer at Hopper. Skills: Security tooling, Automation, Application security. Own vulnerability management program. Evolve vulnerability management program”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5 years experience software engineering, 5 years experience platform engineering, Design production-quality tools, Build production-quality tools, Maintain production-quality tools, Deep experience application security, Deep experience vulnerability management, Hands-on experience cloud infrastructure, Adapt to our stack, Habit of using AI tools, Bias toward automation, Comfort with ambiguity, Comfort with ownership, Experience influencing engineering culture, Written communication skills, Verbal communication skills
Nice to Have
GCP/GKE experience, Use AI tools as core part, Make developers care about security, Not slowing developers down, Articulate security posture to customers
What You'll Do.
Own vulnerability management program
Evolve vulnerability management program
Build security tooling
Maintain security tooling
Integrate tooling into CI/CD
Integrate tooling into developer workflows
Build intelligent tooling
Assess telemetry usage
Improve telemetry usage
Influence secure development practices
Investigate security findings
Respond to security findings
Build systems that prevent issues
Build systems that detect issues
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Engineering teams; Small dynamic teams
Communication Scope
Written communication; Verbal communication
Process & Methodology
Agile
Full Job Description
About the Role Hopper's Security team is small by design and consequential by impact- and this role sits at the centre of it. As a Senior Security Engineer, you'll own the tooling, automation, and processes that keep our applications secure across their entire lifecycle, building the systems that make security invisible to developers and unavoidable by default. This is a builder's role in every sense: you'll write code, ship tools, and use AI as a core part of how you work — not as a novelty, but as a force multiplier. What would your day-to-day look like - Own and evolve our vulnerability management program with a focus on application security — container images, dependencies, code scanning, and runtime detection - Build and maintain security tooling that integrates directly into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows, so security happens automatically rather than as a gate - Use AI extensively to write code faster, automate analyses that would otherwise require manual review, and build intelligent tooling that scales beyond what a small team could achieve manually - Assess and improve how we leverage available telemetry across our systems - Work directly with engineering teams to influence secure development practices — not by writing standards and documents, but by shipping tools and defaults that make the secure path the easy path - Investigate and respond to security findings when needed, but spend more of your time building systems that prevent and detect issues than manually chasing them - Adapt quickly as priorities shift — our team is agile and tomorrow's challenge may look different from todays An ideal candidate has - At least 5 years experience software and/or platform engineering, with the ability to design, build, and maintain production-quality tools - Deep experience in application security and vulnerability management — you understand CVEs, dependency risks, container security, and SDLC integration, and you have opinions about what's worth fixing a
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