Sr. Application Security Engineer

About the role

ABOUT US:

Gen is a global company dedicated to powering Digital Freedom through its trusted consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, MoneyLion and more. Our combined heritage is rooted in financial empowerment and cyber safety for the first digital generations, and today we deliver award-winning cybersecurity, online privacy, identity protection and financial wellness solutions to nearly 500 million users in more than 150 countries.

Together, we share a collective passion and vision to protect consumers and help them grow, manage and secure their digital and financial lives. We’re always looking for smart, fearless and high-impact talent who see AI as a teammate – leveraging it to move faster and deliver meaningful results.

When you’re part of Gen, you’ll have the flexibility, tools and support to do your best work and grow your career – from flexible working options and time off to competitive pay, benefits and well-being programs.

At Gen, we are scrappy and relentlessly customer driven. We create room for healthy debate, experimentation and continuous learning, and we seek out people with different experiences, identities and ideas to join our team. You’ll work with people who back each other, respect each other and understand that our differences are a competitive advantage.

If this sounds like you, we’d love you to be part of Gen.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

As a Senior Application Security Engineer, you will help strengthen and scale secure development practices across Gen’s products and platforms. Working closely with engineering, platform and product teams, you’ll help embed security throughout the software development lifecycle while enabling teams to build and deliver software efficiently and securely.

This is a senior individual contributor role where success comes through technical expertise, collaboration and influence. You’ll combine hands-on application security work with ownership of key AppSec initiatives, helping teams identify and reduce risk, improve security tooling and drive measurable security improvements across the organization.

You’ll work across a diverse technology landscape, contributing to security reviews, vulnerability management, developer enablement and the evolution of our application security program. We’re looking for someone who enjoys solving complex security challenges, partnering with engineering teams and using AI to improve security and development workflows.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

- Partner with engineering, platform and product teams to integrate security into development workflows and release processes.

- Perform application security reviews, threat modeling and security assessments for new features, services and architectural changes.

- Provide guidance on secure coding practices, vulnerability remediation and application hardening.

- Evaluate, implement and optimize application security tooling, including SAST, DAST and Software Composition Analysis (SCA).