Staff Security Engineer, Application Security

What you'll do:

We're looking for a Staff Security Engineer, Application Security to help scale and mature our security program. You'll own key security domains and initiatives end-to-end, working closely with engineering to ensure systems are secure by design. This role is highly hands-on, with opportunities to drive meaningful impact through automation, secure design, and developer enablement.

What you'll need:

• Own key security domains such as vulnerability management, application security, API security, and supply chain security
• Drive improvements in security coverage, prioritization, and remediation workflows
• Possibly Partner with engineering teams to integrate security into design reviews, threat modeling, CI/CD pipelines, and developer workflows
• Provide actionable, pragmatic guidance that helps teams ship securely
• Develop and improve security tooling and automation to reduce manual effort
• Implement and tune tools for SAST, SCA, DAST, dependency security, and container security
• Leverage AI/LLMs where appropriate to improve triage, detection, and review processes
• Triage and prioritize vulnerabilities using risk-based approaches
• Help define and improve SLAs, metrics, and reporting
• Conduct threat modeling, design reviews, and security assessments
• Contribute to incident response and postmortems for security events
• Identify and help remediate systemic risks

Compensation:

The salary range for this role will be $210,000.00 - $260,000.00 USD. In addition, this position will also receive an annual target bonus of 12%. Bonus pay at NinjaTrader is based on individual performance (50%) as well as company/team performance (50%). Salary and bonus earnings are only two components of the total compensation package offered by NinjaTrader. NinjaTrader offers a 401K plan through ADP under which the company will match up to 3.5% of employee contributions.

Benefits:

• Generous PTO
• 7 Paid Holidays Annually + 5 Conditional Holidays Annually
• 1 Service Day Annually
• 401k with 3.5% Company Match
• Paid Parental Bonding Leave
• Health, Vision, Dental Coverage
• Life and Disability Insurance Covered 100% by NinjaTrader