Senior Application Security Engineer in Belfast

We’re looking for a deeply technical Application Security Engineer to embed inside engineering and help secure Cloudsmith 2.0, the operating system for the modern software supply chain. The ideal person is a software engineer at heart who chose to specialize in security. You should be comfortable moving between code, architecture, and security design.

About Cloudsmith: Cloudsmith is building the operating system for the modern software supply chain. We run a global, fully managed, multi-tenant SaaS platform that helps organizations, from startups to the Fortune 500, secure, govern, and distribute software artifacts at scale. Worldwide, our customers use Cloudsmith as a critical infrastructure control plane for CI/CD, developer workflows, security controls, compliance, and software distribution, supporting 30+ formats and ecosystems across languages, containers, and operating systems. We recently raised our Series C to accelerate Cloudsmith 2.0: deeper artifact intelligence, stronger policy and provenance, faster package-aware delivery, and infrastructure built for engineering teams, as well as the modern AI-driven software factory. By developers, for developers: we care about craft, architecture, and enterprise scale.

The Role: As a Senior Application Security Engineer, you’ll report to the Head of Security and embed directly into one of our engineering tribes. You’ll work alongside Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Principal Engineers, and product engineers as part of the tribe’s day-to-day rhythm. Your job is to advocate for security from within the core engineering function, not from the sidelines. That means joining design discussions early, reviewing code and architecture, identifying risks early, and helping the tribe land secure, pragmatic fixes. We are building a model where security engineers are part-IC, part-security specialist. You should be able to contribute directly, but your greater leverage lies in raising the security judgment of the engineers around you, so good security becomes part of how we work.

Key Responsibilities:

• Embed inside an engineering tribe and participate in planning, design review, code review, incident learning, and delivery conversations.
• Collaborate across security, platform, and engineering guilds so security work routes to the right team, at the right time, with the right priority.
• Threat-model product and platform changes across APIs, workers, data stores, queues, object storage, CDNs, identity, policy, and tenant boundaries.
• Review production code and architecture for authentication, authorization, data access, secrets handling, artifact integrity, signing, auditability, and abuse cases.
• Build and improve security tooling, paved roads, checks, libraries, and automation that make securing Cloudsmith easier for engineers.
• Tune and operate security controls across SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning, container scanning, IaC scanning, dependency analysis, and runtime signals.
• Investigate, triage, and remediate vulnerabilities identified through internal testing, third-party testing, responsible disclosure, customer reports, and security tooling.
• Support security incidents, red/blue exercises, detection work, and post-incident actions, improvements, and other investigatory/preventative follow-ups.
• Support technical control work for SOC 2, ISO 27001, EU CRA, and related frameworks, working with GRC where security engineering input is needed.
• Raise the tribe's security capability by helping engineers understand risks, threat-model their own work, and recognize what good secure design looks like.