Lead Application Security Engineer- DevSecOps

About the Team

This team solves application security problems at scale and partners across engineering and security functions to help protect athenahealth’s products and platforms. The work combines security engineering, software development, and cross-functional communication to support secure product delivery in a healthcare environment.

Core 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.

Required Experience & 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.

Why This Role Matters

This role is central to strengthening secure software delivery across athenahealth. It combines technical depth, security leadership, and cross-functional influence to improve how security is built into products from the start.