Airbnb Staff Application Engineer Security 

United States 

16846595

A Typical Day:

• Identify unaddressed areas of weakness and drive cleverly engineered, scalable solutions that improve our defense-in-depth.

• Helping engineers design more secure systems via design input and code review.

• Mentoring team members to uplevel technical and interpersonal security skills.

• Evangelize security to ensure engineering stays informed of security best practices.

• Define and refine measurements of security risk.

• Uplift security of acquired business units by creating security processes and onboarding security tools.

Your Expertise:

• Significant experience working on an application security team.

• Strong understanding of web or mobile application security.

• Experience developing software, ideally with Java and Python.

• Experience partnering with product engineers to develop secure products by default.

• Penetration Testing, threat modeling, and architecture review experience.

• Strong communication skills across organizations.

• 7+ years experience in application security.