Staff/Lead Application Security Engineer

The role

You will be Beacon's first dedicated application security engineer. You will set the strategy for product security and start to build the program.

Beacon's application security surface spans both Beacon's own engineering and our portfolio companies' products, each independently built with its own stack and engineering team. You will embed with the teams that own the code, whether at Beacon HQ or within a portfolio company, working inside their design reviews and planning, and own the technical roadmap for product security as Beacon grows.

What Application Security owns

This is the full remit of Application Security at Beacon. It is more than one person can cover at once. As the first member of the team, you will stand up the essentials, prioritize the highest-leverage work first, and build the rest into a roadmap.

• Secure design and architecture: lead threat modeling and security architecture review for new product work and platform initiatives, and define standards for authentication, authorization, encryption, and tenant isolation.

• Acquisition assessment: own the product security review of newly acquired codebases and cloud environments, establishing baseline post