Application Security Engineer

About the role

You will do hands-on work across our four focus areas: Standards, Secure Architecture and Design, Preventative Controls, Adoption and Enablement. You will own defined pieces of this work, with guidance from senior engineers, and you will be measured on the outcomes below rather than on activity. The team is small, so you will also be expected to automate repetitive work, using AI tools where they help. You are not expected to know all of this on day one. We are looking for people who have started working in this space and want to learn and grow at speed.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain the preventative controls in development pipelines, including secrets prevention, dependency and artifact policy, and scan configuration as code.
• With guidance from senior engineers, work with development teams to establish what needs to be scanned, ensure accurate scans policies and that the results can be trusted.
• Help write security standards specific enough to test and build the automated checks that show whether teams conform to them.
• Ensure agent-generated code conforms to the highest security standards and controls through defining and implementing guardrails for AI coding agents.
• Support design reviews and threat modeling for applications, build tooling and internal platforms.
• Enable the team to scale at speed through automation of repetitive tasks, standards checks and review support.

By the end of your first year, we would expect

• The controls you built or maintain are enforced in the pipeline and reported by organization.
• The teams you worked with have accurate scan configuration, comprehensive coverage that matches the standard, with no unknown gaps.
• The standards you helped write have automated checks, so conformance is measured and not self-attested.
• Agent-generated code is covered by the same standards and controls as other code.
• The repetitive team work you automated no longer needs manual effort, and the team's time has moved to higher-value work.

Experience you'll need

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Can write and maintain tooling in Python and at least one of Go, TypeScript, or JavaScript.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Buildkite, Jenkins, Git workflows, and containers.
• Basic grounding in application security: OWASP Top 10, threat modeling, secrets management, and software supply chain risk.
• Practical experience using AI tools such as Claude or Claude Code to build or automate real work, and the judgment to check the output before trusting it.
• Clear writing and speaking, and a willingness to learn fast in an area that changes every few months.

Preferred qualifications

• You have built an automation or AI-assisted workflow that replaced manual work and you can explain how you checked that its output was right. Claude skills, agents and MCP servers count.
• You have set up or tested controls on an AI coding agent or assistant (permissions, sandboxing, hooks, tool restrictions), and you can describe the risk each one reduced, such as prompt injection, excessive agency, data exfiltration, or a malicious MCP server.
• You have written evals, test cases, or review checks that caught bad LLM output before it was used.
• You have put a security check into a CI/CD pipeline (secrets scanning, SAST, SCA, or dependency and artifact policy).
• Working knowledge of AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Additional information

The minimum and maximum base salaries for this role are posted below; additionally, the role is eligible for bonus potential, equity and benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the role based on U.S. location. Within the range, the salary offered will be determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US Pay Range $124,200 - $186,200 USD

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Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK) is the Security and AI Operations Company, delivering one platform built at the intersection of data, identity, and AI. The platform enables agentic cyber resilience and trusted AI operations for enterprises worldwide, built to recover before disruption strikes and stay a step ahead, so security is never the reason ambition stalls.

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At Rubrik, we are dedicated to fostering a culture where people from all backgrounds are valued, feel they belong, and believe they can succeed. Our commitment to inclusion is at the heart of our mission to secure the world's data.

Our goal is to hire and promote the best talent, regardless of background. We continually review our hiring practices to ensure fairness and strive to create an environment where every employee has equal access to opportunities for growth and excellence. We believe in empowering everyone to bring their authentic selves to work and achieve their fullest potential.

Our inclusion strategy focuses on three core areas of our business and culture:

• Our Company: We are committed to building a merit-based organization that offers equal access to growth and success for all employees globally. Your potential is limitless here.
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