Staff Application Security EngineerActive$240K–$300K

The opportunity

Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to…

What you'll do

  • Lead the technical vision and strategic roadmap for the Application Security: team, aligning security objectives with Brex's enterprise growth and high-velocity engineering metrics.

  • Establish technical standards and secure defaults across the entire: engineering organization, fostering a culture of collaborative security excellence and bridging product platforms, infra, and trust.

  • Architect and secure novel AI/ML and agentic workflows, applying cutting-edge: practices to mitigate risks such as prompt injection, model manipulation, and data poisoning.

  • Mentor and coach engineers within the team and across the broader: organization, guiding technical growth, helping individuals level up their security expertise, and accelerating team delivery.

  • Drive proactive vulnerability discovery and offensive security testing: strategies, executing complex attack chains to demonstrate business impact and prioritize cross-functional remediation.

  • Partner with Product Platform, Cloud Infrastructure, and Data engineering: teams to ensure core primitives, APIs, and microservices are secure by default from design to deployment.

What they're looking for

  • + years of experience in Application Security, Product Security, or software: engineering with a primary focus on offensive and defensive application security.
  • Proven track record of technical leadership and team mentorship on complex,: multi-quarter security engineering initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
  • Deep proficiency and technical expertise in AI security, including hands-on: experience securing agentic architectures, LLM gateways, and evaluating adversarial AI vectors.
  • Strong systems-thinking capabilities with extensive experience defining: secure product development lifecycles, threat modeling complex topologies, and cloud-native container security (AWS, Kubernetes).