Application Security Engineer
US$177,000 – US$240,000 / yr base salary
Posted 16 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Staff Application Security Engineer”
BranchFactor Summary
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- Expected experience
- 8+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Remote
- Visa sponsorship
- Not offered
| Base salary | US$177,000 – US$240,000 / yr |
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CertificationsOSCP, OSWE, GWAPT, CSSLP
Fingerprint empowers enterprises to detect and stop online fraud with the world’s most accurate device intelligence. We lead our industry with bleeding-edge identification capabilities and work on turning new ideas and discoveries in the fraud detection space into reality. Our customers range from innovative startups to leading enterprise companies, including Plaid, Dropbox, and Booking.com.
Fingerprint is a globally dispersed, 100% remote company. We were named on on the 2026 Forbes Best Startup Employers list and ranked #803 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies.
We have raised $77M and are backed by Craft Ventures (Tesla, Facebook, Airbnb ), Nexus Venture Partners ( Postman, Apollo.io, MinIO, Druva) and Uncorrelated Ventures ( Redis, Rollbar, Gradle).
The Role in Context
Fingerprint's device intelligence platform processes billions of identification events for some of the world's most security-conscious companies — financial institutions, fraud prevention operators, and enterprises that rely on us to stop attackers. That makes our own application security a product feature, not a back-office function: our customers' adversaries are, by definition, motivated to probe what we build.
As we scale with large enterprise customers, we're investing in application security as a dedicated, first-class engineering discipline. Security is already part of how our teams build — scanning in the pipeline, a Cloud Platform team that treats security as a partner, and a mature compliance posture — and we're now standing up a focused AppSec function, led by a Senior Manager, Application Security who owns the program and strategy, to take it to the next level. You will be the founding senior engineer of that function — the person who turns strategy into a working secure SDLC, finds and fixes what matters, and raises the security bar across engineering through technical depth, tooling, and influence.
This is a hands-on Staff role. You will design, build, and operate — not just advise.