Lead Application Security Engineer
Apollo.io
About Apollo
Apollo.io combines a buyer database of over 250M contacts and powerful sales engagement and automation tools in one, easy to use platform. Trusted by over 160,000 companies including Autodesk, Rippling, Deel, Jasper.ai, Divvy, and Heap, Apollo has more than one million users globally. By helping sales professionals find their ideal buyers and intelligently automate outreach, Apollo helps go-to-market teams sell anything.
In the last year, we’ve grown ARR 3x, quadrupled our active users, and closed a $110M Series C led by Sequoia Capital in March of 2022. This year, we continue to grow faster each month with record months of sales and added ARR. We hope you apply.
Working at Apollo
We are a remote-first inclusive organization focused on operational excellence. Our way of working ensures clear expectations and an environment to do your best work with ample reward.
About the role:
The Lead Application Security Engineer will be responsible for building the AppSec program at Apollo, interacting with engineering to create a secure SDLC and implementing tools, education and processes to reduce risk of security issues in the tech stack.
Daily Adventures & Responsibilities:
- Own all aspects of the secure SDLC
- Select or build tooling to help developers build secure code
- Provide overall security architectural advice to Engineering and IT
- Manage issues sourced from penetration tests and bug bounty programs
- Manage security champions program
- Help Product, Engineering and IT incorporate security requirements into new products from inception
- Assist in the creation and maintenance of Security Risk Models for new projects and existing systems
What We're Looking For:
- 7+ years of development with some security experience in the AppSec domain.
- Strong Linux knowledge
- Strong software development skills ideally in Ruby or similar languages
- Ability to influence others
- Knowledge of common AppSec issues and tooling
- Experience with cloud services, ideally GCP Experience with vulnerability management, or pentesting is a plus
What You’ll Love About Apollo
Besides the great compensation package and culture that thrives in openness and excellence, we invest tremendous effort into developing our remote employees’ careers. The team embraces that we have a sole purpose: to help customers maximize their full revenue potential on the Apollo platform. This mindset opens us up to a lot of creative approaches to making customers successful at scale. You’ll be a significant part of a lean, remote team, empowered to really own your role as a proactive educator. We’re very collaborative at Apollo, so you’ll be able to lean on your teammates, even in adjacent departments, to help you achieve lofty goals. You’ll be supported and encouraged to experiment and take educated risks that lead to big wins. And, you’ll have a whole team remotely by your side to help you do it!