Senior Application Security Engineer

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September 30

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Canary Technologies

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Canary Technologies is a leader in hospitality technology that provides hoteliers with easy, intuitive, and secure solutions to help hotels provide an ideal guest experience.

11 - 50 employees

📋 Description

• Define and enforce best practices for secure coding, dependency management, and design reviews across engineering teams • Integrate and manage SAST, DAST, and SCA tools within CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions) • Partner with developers on new features and systems to identify risks early in the lifecycle • Implement best practices for secrets handling, API authentication/authorization, and data protection • Build security guidelines, training, and reusable libraries/patterns so that teams can ship secure code faster • Triage and prioritize findings from bug bounties, penetration tests, and automated scans, ensuring timely resolution • Act as the bridge between application developers and platform engineers to align app security with infra and compliance requirements • Implement monitoring, alerting, and remediation for security incidents across our platform • Scan and remediate vulnerabilities in container images, OS packages, dependencies, and IaC templates • Design and maintain least-privilege IAM roles, secrets management, and authentication flows • Automate evidence gathering and control enforcement for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and others • Own strategy for application security tooling, automation, and developer enablement; collaborate with SREs, infra, and data engineers to keep platform secure and scalable

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years in security engineering, DevSecOps, or related roles, including experience at scale • Excellent communication and teamwork abilities • Strong experience integrating security into modern SDLC pipelines • Hands-on with AppSec tooling (Snyk, OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, SonarQube, Checkmarx, etc.) • Solid understanding of web app security (OWASP Top 10, API security, auth flows, input validation) • Familiarity with AWS/Kubernetes security • Strong programming skills (Python, Go, or JavaScript) to build tools, write secure code, and contribute to developer libraries • Proven track record in partnering with product and engineering teams to drive security adoption without slowing down velocity • Strong AWS security skills (IAM, KMS, Security Hub, GuardDuty, WAF) • Experience with Kubernetes security (RBAC, OPA/Gatekeeper, network policies) • Hands-on with Terraform, Helm, and GitOps practices • Familiarity with security tooling (Trivy, Falco, Snyk, Aqua) • Knowledge of networking, encryption, and cloud-native security best practices

🏖️ Benefits

• Canary Days:  As a company we want to ensure that the team has time to recharge. Each month we provide company wide days off to ensure there is at least one extended weekend or day off. • Self Improvement Club: We meet each month and share our personal goals for the month. Each individual is provided a budget towards any purchases that help us achieve these goals. • Professional Development Chats: We provide budget to help drive cross functional professional development conversations across the organization. • Travel Reimbursement: Team members are able to visit our offices across New York, San Francisco or Dallas when they choose, and are provided a travel stipend for doing so.  Spend time working with the team in their office, and use the rest of your time exploring a new city! • Personal Travel Reimbursement: If you stay at a hotel that Canary works with, we provide a credit towards your stay.