Application Security Engineer (Contractor)

The role

The Application Security Engineer will architect software security tooling and integrate security into the software development process. This person works with software development and production operations teams to support 10 SaaS platforms.

What you will do

• Assist initiatives and projects to support and enhance security in application development processes.
• Evaluate how to optimize tools and explore technologies to enhance security posture and support scalability.
• Conduct internal penetration testing and code reviews.
• Create, update, and maintain threat models for software projects.
• Leverage AI to automate workflows and build efficiencies.
• Advise software developers on secure coding practices and assist with vulnerability remediation.
• Analyze source code to pinpoint and support remediation of potential vulnerabilities.
• Draft communications detailing status of security projects and programs.
• Support development of security training material and provide guidance for internal software development teams.
• Support incident response.

Required qualifications

• 3-5 years of scripting and development experience
• 2-3 years of cloud engineering experience
• Familiarity with Claude AI and other AI tools and leveraging agentic AI for automation.
• Demonstrated excellent judgment in assessing and prioritizing technical risk.
• Knowledge of security best practices and standards, such as OWASP and OWASP ASVS, S-SDLC, and BSIMM.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex security issues to technical and non-technical collaborators.
• Familiarity with a wide variety of security tools, technologies, and methodologies

Nice to have

• supporting web applications
• using Infrastructure as Code (Emphasis in AWS)
• NIST and HIPAA experience

About the company

Radicle Health is a collection of human services software products designed to foster collaboration and innovation. The company builds mission-driven products that support organizations in delivering essential services.