Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. athenahealth is a healthcare technology company working to deliver accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare. The Lead Application Security Engineer will define and operate application security capabilities, lead API security testing, improve Security Development Lifecycle adoption, and partner with engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, and security teams to strengthen secure product delivery.

Responsibilities

• Security strategy and SDLC adoption
• Socialize and drive execution of key security best practices across the R&D organization
• Contribute to the enterprise security catalog of best practices, techniques, and patterns
• Improve the quality and adoption of Security Development Lifecycle practices
• Application security capability ownership
• Own the evaluation, design, implementation, integration, reliability, and continuous improvement of application security capabilities
• Support SAST, SCA, DAST, API security testing, and vulnerability management workflows
• Document, share, and help automate coverage for common abuse cases and attacks
• API security program leadership
• Lead the API security testing program
• Manage API discovery, authenticated and unauthenticated testing, scanner attribution, onboarding, exclusions, ownership mapping, findings routing, and operational readiness
• Identify and explain feature-level design or architectural weaknesses that could create security issues
• Cross-functional partnership and issue management
• Partner with enterprise security leadership to track and prioritize open issues and follow through on resolution
• Work with DevOps, Infrastructure, IAM, API Gateway, NOC, Enterprise Security, and application teams to design and operate security-hardened platforms

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cyber Security, or similar, or equivalent experience
• At least 3 years of experience as a software developer and 3–5 years in a security-focused development role in an agile environment
• Experience in software and product design and architecture, product security, and security issue prevention and mitigation
• Strong software engineering background with the ability to develop, review, and troubleshoot code in one or more languages
• Practical experience with Docker and Terraform
• Strong knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, SAML, and service-to-service authentication
• Solid understanding of RESTful services, service bus architectures, JSON, and related web services concepts
• Experience with SAST, SCA, DAST, API security testing, vulnerability aggregation, and CI/CD security controls
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, containers, infrastructure as code, secrets management, and CI/CD
• Knowledge of HIPAA, HITRUST, and PCI-DSS is a plus

Benefits

• Short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans
• Health and financial benefits
• Commuter support
• Employee assistance programs
• Tuition assistance
• Employee resource groups
• Collaborative workspaces
• Some offices even welcome dogs.
• Flexibility to find a fulfilling and productive work-life balance
• Book clubs
• External speakers
• Hackathons
• A company culture based on learning
• The support of an engaged team
• An inclusive environment where all employees are valued

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