<div class="content-intro">Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.</div>Engineering at Brex Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and intention. Our teams span Software, Data, Security, and IT, and operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration. We tackle hard technical problems, own our outcomes, and push for excellence at every level — from architecture to deployment. It’s an environment where engineering is a craft, and builders become leaders. What you’ll do As a Senior Application Security Engineer, you will focus on finding and responding to security vulnerabilities across the Brex platform. In this role, you will perform code reviews, design reviews, penetration testing, and vulnerability management. You will develop and maintain tooling to perform static and dynamic testing of the Brex platform and tooling which supports secure developer workflows. Application Security is part of our wider Financial Scale organization, which means you will work closely with Security Operations, GRC, Product Security, Front End Platform,&nbsp; IT Infrastructure teams. We’re looking for individuals with a strong background and interest in penetration testing. You should have a demonstrated ability to find vulnerabilities in complex systems and craft exploits to demonstrate business impact. This role is highly cross functional and collaborative, you will have the opportunity to work with every engineering team across Brex. You should be enthusiastic about working with a variety of backgrounds, roles, and needs. Building a world-class financial service requires world-class security.&nbsp; Brex is pioneering the next wave of AI-driven financial services for dynamic, high-impact companies like Coinbase, Robinhood, and Anthropic. We're at the early stages of integrating AI across our product suite, this role will have the opportunity to influence and secure the future of AI Security at Brex. You'll be at the forefront of securing our novel AI implementations, identifying attack vectors in agentic-powered features, and partnering with product and engineering teams to build AI capabilities that our customers can trust with their critical financial operations. Responsibilities <ul> <li>Identifying vulnerabilities, demonstrating business impact, and articulating the risk of specific vulnerabilities to drive prioritization efforts</li> <li>Perform penetration testing and design reviews, looking for vulnerabilities and insecure designs, work with engineering and product to design secure product features</li> <li>Maintain and build internal tools to automate security efforts, perform SAST and DAST testing of the Brex platform, and support secure development practices</li> <li>Build and contribute to a culture of collaborative security excellence through technical leadership, learning sessions, and mentorship within the team and wider organization</li> </ul> Requirements <ul> <li>5+ years work experience in an Application Security or related role</li> <li>Ability to find vulnerabilities in complex systems, demonstrating business impact through custom attack chains</li> <li>Experience with a wide range of secure development activities including— threat modeling, developer education, and incident response</li> <li>Knowledge of Python, scripting languages, and AI/agentic workflows to automate tasks, build tools and improve productivity</li> <li>Collaborative mindset paired with strong written and verbal communication skills</li> </ul> Bonus points <ul> <li>Proficiency with Kotlin, gRPC, GraphQL, Kubernetes</li> <li>Previous experience as a software engineer</li> <li>Consultancy experience performing web application security reviews</li> <li>Experience with securing distributed systems in AWS and cloud environments</li> <li>Experience with pentesting and securing agentic features and systems</li> <li>Contributions to the wider technical community— open source, public research, mentorship, community organizing, blogging, CVEs, presentations, etc</li> <li>Experience submitting to bug bounty programs or responsible disclosure programs</li> </ul> Compensation The expected salary range for this role is $192,000 - $240,000. However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package. Brex LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, N.A.<div class="content-conclusion">Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a&nbsp;<a class="c-link" href="http://brex.com/" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="http://brex.com" data-sk="tooltip_parent">brex.com</a>&nbsp;domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.</div>

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