Application Security Team Lead

SmartRecruiters Inc. delivers an AI-powered hiring platform used by more than 4,000 companies globally. In 2025, SmartRecruiters joined SAP to combine AI innovation with SAP’s enterprise applications. The company operates with empowered product teams responsible for business outcomes and customer-focused solutions.

• Significant professional experience in Application Security, Product Security, or Secure Software Development with leadership or mentoring experience
• Ability to lead a small team by setting priorities, delegating, developing people, and delivering results while remaining hands-on technically
• Deep understanding of common vulnerability classes (injection, broken access control, cryptographic failures, SSRF, etc.) and secure design principles
• Strong hands-on experience with penetration testing of web applications, APIs, and modern cloud-native architectures
• Solid knowledge of authentication, authorization, cryptography, and API security patterns
• Experience building or maturing an application security program including processes, tooling strategy, and metrics
• Experience with security testing methodologies and tools across SAST, DAST, IAST, and SCA
• Familiarity with microservices architectures and cloud environments, particularly AWS
• Excellent communication skills to articulate technical risks, translate security priorities for leadership, and build trust across teams

• Lead and grow a team of Application Security Engineers, setting direction, coaching, and owning the AppSec roadmap and KPIs
• Drive end-to-end application security: threat modeling, design reviews, internal penetration testing, manual and automated code reviews, and security testing (SAST/DAST/IAST/SCA)
• Own vulnerability management and bug bounty: define processes and SLAs, triage and validate findings, and drive remediation with engineering teams
• Define and optimize the AppSec tooling stack, integrating security into CI/CD and developer workflows to shift left without slowing delivery
• Secure AI/ML features and LLM integrations by assessing AI-specific risks and defining guardrails and best practices
• Set secure coding standards (OWASP) and promote a security-first culture through training, documentation, and security champion initiatives

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