Staff Application Security Engineer

1 month, 1 week ago
Full-time
Lead
Cybersecurity
Thumbtack

Thumbtack

Thumbtack is a platform that connects individuals with local professionals for a wide range of services, from house painting to personal training. By answering a few questions, users receive quotes from qualified professionals, making it easy to compar...

Construction & Engineering
1K-5K
Founded 2009
$698M raised

Description

  • Own the long-term technical direction for application security across Thumbtack and drive remediation of systemic risks across the application stack.
  • Build prioritized security roadmaps and lead large, cross-functional security initiatives from problem definition through delivery.
  • Design secure-by-default architectures, standards, and paved paths for engineering teams.
  • Design and implement shared security tooling, libraries, patterns, and services that help teams ship quickly and safely.
  • Embed security into CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and developer workflows.
  • Partner with engineering and product leaders to prioritize security investments based on risk, impact, and business goals.
  • Lead application security design reviews, architectural discussions, and threat modeling for critical systems.
  • Contribute code, reviews, and designs to address complex or novel security risks.
  • Mentor engineers and raise the overall security bar across the organization.
  • Support security incident response and drive learning through post-incident analysis.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering and application security.
  • Strong understanding of secure coding practices and application security frameworks.
  • Deep expertise in secure system design and architecture.
  • Experience with modern application security tools, patterns, and practices, including threat modeling, secure design patterns, authentication and authorization, secrets management, and vulnerability discovery and remediation workflows.
  • Strong experience securing modern cloud-native systems, especially AWS and/or GCP.
  • Proven track record leading large, cross-functional technical initiatives with sustained impact.
  • Strong product intuition and analytical, risk-informed thinking.
  • Ability to balance pragmatism and rigor when making tradeoffs between risk, velocity, and maintainability.
  • Strong ownership and accountability, with the ability to mentor others and drive organization-wide improvements.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence without authority and explain complex security issues to technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits

  • Remote-friendly role with #LI-Remote designation.
  • Competitive salary range of $249,900-$323,400 in SF Bay Area, San Jose, New York City, or Seattle metros.
  • Competitive salary range of $225,300-$291,500 in Austin, Washington DC, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, or Washington.
  • Competitive salary range of $212,500-$275,000 in all other U.S. locations.
  • Reasonable accommodation support for applicants with disabilities.
  • Equal opportunity workplace with consideration for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable law.

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