Senior Application Security Engineer (Remote)

the opportunity to work with every engineering team across Brex. You should be enthusiastic about working with a variety of backgrounds, roles, and needs. Building a world-class financial service requires world-class security. Brex is pioneering the next wave of AI-driven financial services for dynamic, high-impact companies like Coinbase, Robinhood, and Anthropic. We're at the early stages of integrating AI across our product suite, this role will have the opportunity to influence and secure the future of AI Security at Brex. You'll be at the forefront of securing our novel AI implementations, identifying attack vectors in agentic-powered features, and partnering with product and engineering teams to build AI capabilities that our customers can trust with their critical financial operations. Responsibilities Identifying vulnerabilities, demonstrating business impact, and articulating the risk of specific vulnerabilities to drive prioritization efforts Perform penetration testing and design reviews, looking for vulnerabilities and insecure designs, work with engineering and product to design secure product features Maintain and build internal tools to automate security efforts, perform SAST and DAST testing of the Brex platform, and support secure development practices Build and contribute to a culture of collaborative security excellence through technical leadership, learning sessions, and mentorship within the team and wider organization Requirements 5+ years work experience in an Application Security or related role Ability to find vulnerabilities in complex systems, demonstrating business impact through custom attack chains Experience with a wide range of secure development activities including— threat modeling, developer education, and incident response Knowledge of Python, scripting languages, and AI/agentic workflows to automate tasks, build tools and improve productivity Collaborative mindset paired with strong written and verbal communication skills Bonus points Proficiency with Kotlin, gRPC, GraphQL, Kubernetes Previous experience as a software engineer Consultancy experience performing web application security reviews Experience with securing distributed systems in AWS and cloud environments Experience with pentesting and securing agentic features and systems Contributions to the wider technical community— open source, public research, mentorship, community organizing, blogging, CVEs, presentations, etc Experience submitting to bug bounty programs or responsible disclosure programs Compensation The expected salary range for this role is $192,000 - $240,000. However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package. Brex LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, N.A. Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.