Security Engineer, Application Security

About this role

Serval, an AI-native automation platform, is seeking an Application Security Lead to build and scale their product security program from the ground up. You'll establish secure development practices, lead a growing security team, and address novel challenges in agentic AI systems while partnering closely with engineering to embed security by design.

What you'll do

• Design and operate application security program including secure SDLC, threat modeling, code review, and vulnerability remediation
• Build, lead, and mentor a team spanning product security, secure software development, and vulnerability management
• Establish engineering rigor through secure coding standards, libraries, and security design patterns
• Implement and tune automated security tooling (SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning, CI/CD gates)
• Own vulnerability lifecycle from intake through triage, assessment, tracking, and coordinated disclosure
• Partner with Engineering and Product to embed security in authentication, authorization, data protection, and agentic AI workflows

What they're looking for

• Application security and secure software development (10+ years)
• Building and leading product security and secure-SDLC functions
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with code reading/writing ability
• Modern application security tooling (SAST, DAST, SCA, fuzzing, supply-chain security)
• Secure cloud-native and distributed-systems architecture
• Leadership and cross-functional influence
• Agentic AI security challenges (prompt injection, tool safety, data exfiltration)
• Adversary tradecraft and threat modeling