Senior Application Security Engineer

🕒 June 28

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First Advantage

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5001 - 10000 employees

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

HR Tech • SaaS • B2B

First Advantage is a leading provider of global software and data for the HR technology market. Enabled by proprietary technology and AI, it delivers employment background screening, digital identity and verification services, APIs, and risk-monitoring products across the employee lifecycle. The company emphasizes automation and continuous identity verification, serving roughly 80,000 organizations in over 200 countries and territories, and maintains large proprietary databases (over one billion records). Headquartered in Atlanta and publicly traded (NASDAQ: FA), First Advantage focuses on helping customers hire smarter and onboard faster through software, data and services.

📋 Description

• Design and implement secure application code bases and processes to support the software development life cycle (SDLC) across the global enterprise. • Serve as a liaison between third-party penetration testing vendors and internal application teams, collaborating to schedule, scope, test, and remediate. • Review security findings from multiple tooling sources as well as customer inquiries, assessing validity and risk levels. • Perform threat modeling and application design reviews, working closely with stakeholders. • Configure SAST and DAST tooling, analyze findings, and address ticketing and remediation with multiple other teams. • Contribute to the development and automation of security testing tools and processes. • Assist with incident response (IR) activities that may relate to application security. • Partner with teams such as SecOps, Threat Intel/Hunt, Vulnerability Management, DevOps, AppDev, Networking, and Product to ensure a strong security posture across the organization.

🎯 Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience with a combination of application security engineering, penetration testing, web application/API development (.NET/C#, Java, JavaScript), system administration, networking, and information security. • Relevant industry certifications from organizations such as OffSec, SANS, or isc2. • Familiarity with web application/API testing, static code analysis, threat modeling, and vulnerability scanners. • Practical knowledge with source code review to address common security issues.

🏖️ Benefits

• Employee Impact Groups • FA Cares volunteer opportunities • Mentorship Advantage Program • SOAR, award-winning manager development program • Generous Paid Time Off Program* • Volunteer Time Off (VTO) Policy to encourage involvement in philanthropic activities* • Competitive benefits (medical, dental, etc.)* • Global Employee Assistance Program (EAP) available to all team members • Opportunities to connect with colleagues across six Employee Impact Groups and participate in Employee Experience events throughout the year