Lead Application Security Engineer

CAIS is the pioneer in democratizing access to and education about alternative investments for independent financial advisors, empowering them to engage and transact with leading asset managers on a massive scale through a wide variety of alternative investment products and technology solutions. CAIS provides financial advisors with a broad selection of alternative investment strategies, including hedge funds, private equity, private credit, real estate, digital assets, and structured notes. CAIS also delivers industry-leading technology, operational efficiency, and world-class client service throughout the pre-trade, trade, and post-trade experience. CAIS serves over 2,500 wealth management firms that support more than 65,000 financial advisors who oversee approximately $8.5 trillion in end-client assets.

Application security sits at the center of how CAIS earns and keeps the trust of the advisors and asset managers who rely on our platform. As our lead for application security, you will own how we protect the applications and services we build and embedding security into the heart of how we design, write, and ship software.

You will define and drive our approach to secure development: setting threat modeling strategy, owning security architecture and secure code reviews, and designing the controls that live inside our SDLC. Just as importantly, you will use automation and AI to scale that work, turning security from a manual ch