Python Django Senior Application Security Engineer Hybrid - US
Energy SolutionsChicago, Illinois
Full Time
Posted November 20, 2025
$119k - $147k
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Job Description
A Senior Application Security Engineer responsible for managing security and risk for internal applications, including conducting security reviews, implementing secure coding practices in Django Python, and ensuring compliance with security standards within a primarily remote, growing company.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage security and risk for internal applications by contributing to security roadmap, prioritizing risks, and sequencing work.
- Conduct security reviews of code, including pull request assessments, static code analysis, and guiding secure refactoring.
- Develop and implement reference security patterns in Django Python, such as authentication, input validation, and secrets handling.
- Translate security standards like SOC 2 and NIST into technical stories, controls, and automated evidence within CI/CD pipelines.
- Perform threat modeling and document secure architecture patterns, ADRs, and RFCs for development teams.
- Oversee security tasks throughout the Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC) to ensure compliance and security standards.
- Collaborate with developers, security, privacy, and compliance teams to align security requirements with technical implementation.
- Review architecture and code changes for security impact and ensure adherence to security policies and standards.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years experience in application security experience.
- Practice and implementation with Django Python with a clear application-security focus, including production experience and impact, not just theory.
- Engineering background in software or DevOps SRE with the ability to read, modify code, review pull requests, and build proof-of-concept solutions.
- Experience with GitHub security, including reviewing static code scans, triaging findings, eliminating noise, and driving remediation with owners.
- Experience embedding secure Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) into Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines, including pre-commit hooks, pipeline gates, and policy-as-code.
- Practical knowledge of SOC 2 and familiarity with NIST 800-53 standards to translate requirements into technical tasks and evidence.
- Ability to operate across code, application, and DevOps containers, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) basics, secrets management, and logging and monitoring.
- Ability to read, review, and make recommendations on secure Django Python patterns, including authentication, input validation, secrets handling, rate limiting, and geo-based access.
- Experience serving as a steward for static application security testing (SAST) scanning, reviewing results, triaging findings, and driving remediation.
- Experience mapping SOC 2 and NIST standards to engineering work, translating requirements into stories, controls, and automated evidence in CI/CD.
- Ability to review architecture and code changes for security impact and ensure compliance with all company security policies and standards.
- Experience managing and maintaining all security-related tickets, including making recommendations, testing, and validation.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate security requirements and recommendations.
- Strong time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
- Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills.
- Ability to collaborate with software developers, code base leads, and act as a liaison between technical requirements from security, privacy, compliance, and development teams.
Benefits & Perks
Salary range of $119,100 - $147,400 annually, with a target compensation of $119,000 to $131,600 based on experience and qualifications
Generous retirement package
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Pre-tax contribution plans
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
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