Senior Application Engineer — Cybersecurity SaaS

Description

The company is an early-stage cybersecurity firm building an AI-native platform for exposure and risk intelligence.

The platform helps customers find security exposures, assess vulnerabilities, rank risks, manage fixes, and track security gains.

It combines assessment tools, analytics, automation, and AI insights to make risk management easier to access and act on.

The company is preparing for commercial launch and growing its engineering team for product work, customer readiness, and later growth.

The company is self-funded and focused on disciplined product development and steady growth.

This senior role is hands-on engineering across backend services, application features, security integrations, data processing, and customer-facing SaaS functions.

You will work inside the existing application architecture alongside AI and cloud infrastructure engineers to improve functionality, reliability, security, and scale.

The team wants someone who likes hard engineering problems and can turn business and product needs into software that holds up.

Responsibilities

• Build, extend, and maintain the core SaaS application.
• Design and ship scalable backend services and APIs.
• Create customer-facing features and workflows.
• Improve performance, reliability, and maintainability, and refine data models and processing.
• Implement authentication, authorization, and access control.
• Shape application architecture and write technical documentation.
• Build and extend connections to security assessment and scanning tools.
• Create workflows for asset discovery, vulnerability assessment, and security analysis.
• Collect, process, and normalize security findings securely and at scale.
• Build reliable scan orchestration, scheduling, and execution management.
• Support integration with external security platforms and enterprise systems.
• Enhance asset inventory, exposure management, and vulnerability tracking.
• Extend multi-tenant capabilities, including tenant isolation and role-based access.
• Build customer onboarding and tenant administration workflows.
• Develop subscription management and usage-based services.
• Add customer configuration, reporting, admin tools, and lifecycle support.
• Build dashboards and analytical interfaces for findings.
• Improve vulnerability and exposure workflows, including risk tracking, remediation, and validation.
• Add reporting, visualization, and export.
• Bring AI-powered insights into customer features.
• Improve usability and the overall customer experience.
• Write reliable, maintainable, well-tested components and automated tests.
• Work with infrastructure engineers on deployment and operations.
• Find and fix performance, security, and reliability issues.
• Help set engineering standards and best practices.
• Support production releases and customer onboarding.

Requirements

• Significant professional experience building production software.
• Strong backend development experience.
• Experience designing and building APIs and service integrations.
• Proficiency with modern application development technologies.
• Experience with relational databases and data-heavy applications.
• Understanding of secure application development.
• Experience building or running scalable SaaS platforms.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and containers.
• Experience connecting external systems, services, or software components.
• Ability to deliver reliable, production-ready features on your own.
• Strong problem solving, communication, and teamwork.
• Preferred: experience building cybersecurity or security management applications.
• Preferred: familiarity with security assessment, vulnerability management, or exposure analysis.
• Preferred: experience integrating scanning engines or security analysis tools.
• Preferred: knowledge of multi-tenant SaaS design.
• Preferred: experience building analytical dashboards and reporting applications.
• Preferred: familiarity with subscription management and customer lifecycle workflows.
• Preferred: experience with distributed systems and asynchronous processing.
• Preferred: prior work in a startup or early-stage product team.

Conditions

Initially a flexible part-time or contract engagement.

Pay and terms will be discussed based on experience, availability, responsibilities, and project needs.

Benefits

• Work on a developing security platform that combines security engineering, intelligent automation, and modern SaaS.
• Take real technical ownership and contribute directly to product development and the company's technical direction.
• Possible growth paths include Principal Engineer, Lead Application Engineer, or Engineering Manager as the company expands.
• Opportunities may include owning application architecture, leading technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, and taking on longer-term engineering work.
• Additional compensation or equity may be considered, subject to company approval and mutually agreed terms.
• The company values initiative, accountability, technical curiosity, and reliable software.