Application Security Engineer

The Role

Are you excited by the idea of thinking like an adversary to protect organizations from advanced threats? Does the challenge of overcoming sophisticated defenses get your blood pumping? Are you excited about joining Moveworks’s Red Team and helping build it up from the ground floor? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you.

At Moveworks, our mission is to leverage AI to transform the way companies support their employees. As a Red Team Security Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, building, and expanding our Red Team while performing highly impactful security engagements. You'll collaborate closely with our Blue Team to conduct Purple Team exercises, ensuring that our detection and response capabilities are top-notch. In our dynamic team, you'll take on multiple roles essential for the success of the Red Team, including social engineering, malware development, infrastructure building, and operations. Lastly, you will have the opportunity to learn how to be a successful Red Teamer.

Join us to elevate your adversarial skills and gain deep insights into AI at the fastest-growing AI startup in its field. You'll have access to a wealth of expertise from skilled AI practitioners, allowing you to explore various interests. This unique opportunity will accelerate your career, nurturing your creativity, problem-solving abilities, and innovative thinking.

What you'll do:

• Perform Red Team engagements.
• Identify vulnerabilities across our services, endpoints, networks, and physical security.
• Build tools and infrastructure for Red Team engagements.
• Create bypasses for security tools such as EDR and other monitoring solutions.
• Design and emulate threat actors in Red and Purple team engagements.
• Use social engineering techniques to gain initial access to systems.
• Be a sparring partner with the SOC to test and improve detection and response capabilities.
• Learn and develop the skills necessary to become a successful Red Teamer.
• Maintain an attacker’s mindset with the depth to dive into detailed analysis when needed.
• Work closely with Machine Learning, Search, Product, Infrastructure, Data, and Frontend Teams to ensure secure solutions.
• Empower teams to make informed security-related decisions.

What you bring to the table:

• 3+ years in Penetration Testing, Red Teaming, Vulnerability Research, and/or Application Security.
• 2+ years of experience in Python, JavaScript, Golang, and C/C++.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• Skilled in working with containers and orchestration services like Kubernetes.
• Proven ability to build long-lasting relationships with various teams.
• Capability to successfully execute Red Team engagements.
• Expert understanding of network security, application security, authentication, authorization, identity systems, encryption, and secure coding practices.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, and/or Azure.
• Strong curiosity about engineering disciplines outside of your immediate expertise and a constant desire to learn.
• Experience working in environments with compliance requirements like SOC2, HIPAA, ISO27001, FedRAMP, etc.
• BS or higher in Computer Science or a related field.

Base Salary Compensation Range: $160,000-188,000

*Our compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions or bonus plans. 
Ultimately, in determining pay, final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, the role’s scope and complexity, the candidate’s experience and expertise, and other factors.

Moveworks Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
*Moveworks is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.

Who We Are 

Moveworks is an AI Assistant that helps all employees find information, automate tasks, and be more productive. We give the entire workforce one interface to get answers and take action across every enterprise system. And for developers, we make it easy to build and deploy AI agents that bring the power of Moveworks to every business process or workflow.

It’s all powered by a pioneering Reasoning Engine paired with an Agentic Automation Engine that, together, are able to handle even the most complex requests by understanding queries, then building and executing intelligent plans to fulfill them — in seconds.

Founded in 2016, Moveworks has raised $315M in funding, and eclipsed $100M in ARR in 2024 thanks to our award-winning product and team. Along the way, we’ve earned recognition as a leader in the Forrester Wave for Conversational AI Platforms for Employee Services, as a member of the Forbes Cloud 100 and AI 50 lists, and as one of America’s Most Loved Workplaces according to Newsweek. 

Today, Moveworks has over 500 employees in six offices globally, and is backed by some of the world's most prominent investors including Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, Bain Capital Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Iconiq, and more.

Over 350 leading organizations like Marriott, Databricks, Toyota, CVS Health, and Honeywell trust Moveworks to increase operational efficiency, enhance the employee experience, and drive lasting AI transformation.

Come join one of the most innovative teams on the planet!