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Senior Application Security Engineer

ExecutivePlacements.com
Philadelphia, PA Full Time
POSTED ON 11/22/2025 CLOSED ON 12/16/2025

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Job Tilte: Senior Application Security Engineer

Location: REMOTE - East Coast hours

Hourly Rate: $ 80/hr W2

  • W2 Candidates Only***** Client is not sponsoring visa for this role at this time.

Senior Application Security Engineer

Our client is looking for an experienced Application Security Engineer (Contract) to help elevate our software security posture across a fast-moving, large-scale engineering organization. Youll partner with development teams across the company, shaping the security of products used by 400 million global listeners while working with a distributed team of security specialists who love to teach, collaborate, and continuously improve.

What Youll Do

  • Strengthen product security across diverse engineering disciplines by aligning teams to modern security best practices and frameworks.
  • Lead and facilitate Threat Modeling sessions, while teaching both theoretical and practical security concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Drive cross-functional security initiatives that improve the resilience of Spotifys engineering ecosystem.
  • Advance the adoption and tuning of SAST tools(e.g., CodeQL), refining detections and workflows based on developer feedback.
  • Develop and codify application security guidelines, patterns, and guardrails used across Spotify.
  • Collaborate closely with engineering teams to embed security into the SDLC and enable secure-by-default design.

Who You Are

  • 5 years of hands-on Application Security experience, ideally in high-scale or modern engineering environments.
  • Deep knowledge of AppSec frameworks: OWASP Top 10 (Web & API required; Mobile/LLM preferred)
  • Strong Threat Modeling experiencebuilding, running, and scaling the practice.
  • Comfortable writing code to integrate tools and automate security workflows (Java, Python, Scala, C , TypeScript, etc.).
  • Ability to analyze and interpret SAST findings and reduce false positives; experience writing CodeQL queries is a strong plus.
  • Exceptional communication skillsable to explain complex technical concepts to engineers, leaders, and cross-functional partners.
  • Curious, collaborative, and passionate about uplifting security practices across an entire engineering organization.

Estimated Min Rate: $60.00

Estimated Max Rate: $80.00

Whats In It for You?

Requirements

We welcome you to be a part of the largest and legendary global staffing companies to meet your career aspirations. Yohs network of client companies has been employing professionals like you for over 65 years in the U.S., UK and Canada. Join Yohs extensive talent community that will provide you with access to Yohs vast network of opportunities and gain access to this exclusive opportunity available to you. Benefit eligibility is in accordance with applicable laws and client requirements. Benefits include:

  • Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Benefits (for employees working 20 hours per week)
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) (for employees working 20 hours per week)
  • Life & Disability Insurance (for employees working 20 hours per week)
  • MetLife Voluntary Benefits
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • 401K Retirement Savings Plan
  • Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll
  • Referral Bonus Programs
  • Certification and training opportunities

Note: Any pay ranges displayed are estimations. Actual pay is determined by an applicant's experience, technical expertise, and other qualifications as listed in the job description. All qualified applicants are welcome to apply.

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Visit https://www.yoh.com/applicants-with-disabilities to contact us if you are an individual with a disability and require accommodation in the application process.

For California applicants, qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. All of the material job duties described in this posting are job duties for which a criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment.

It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

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