Senior Application Security Engineer

Senior Application Security Engineer responsible for driving application security outcomes across Hippo's engineering organization, serving as a trusted subject matter expert in application security, and influencing secure design decisions across multiple teams, products, and services.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in application security or product security roles.
• Demonstrated impact improving application security outcomes across multiple teams, systems, or business domains.
• Deep experience securing web applications, APIs, distributed systems, WAFs, and customer identity platforms.
• Strong understanding of authentication and identity protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, JWT, MFA).
• Proven ability to review system designs, data flows, and identify architectural security risks.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native application architectures and CI/CD pipelines from an application risk perspective.
• Experience designing or maintaining automated security tooling and pipelines (SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets detection).
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages.

Benefits

• Healthy Hippos Benefits
• Equity
• Training and Career Growth
• Flexible Time Off
• Little Hippos Program
• Hippo Habitat