Secure Software Engineer at Brightvision in Kirkland, WA
- Company: Brightvision
- Location: Kirkland, WA
- Posted: Sep 18, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Salary: $100,000–$150,000 Annually
- Experience: 6+ years
Overview
Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.
Job description
- Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.
- This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.
- Job Title: Secure Software Engineer
- Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)
- Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2
- Salary Range: $100,000–$150,000 Annually
- Experience Required: 6+ years
- Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.
- We are looking for an Application Security Engineer to embed security throughout the software development lifecycle, partnering with engineering teams to design secure systems, identify vulnerabilities, and reduce risk across our application portfolio. The role blends hands-on offensive and defensive skills with strong communication and collaboration, helping development teams build secure software efficiently rather than slowing them down. The ideal candidate brings deep technical security expertise, strong software engineering fundamentals, and a track record of shipping security improvements that meaningfully reduce risk in production.
Responsibilities
- Embed security throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Partner with engineering teams to design secure systems, identify vulnerabilities, and reduce risk across the application portfolio.
- Blend hands-on offensive and defensive skills with strong communication and collaboration.
- Help development teams build secure software efficiently rather than slowing them down.
- Ship security improvements that meaningfully reduce risk in production.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- Five or more years of application security or security engineering experience.
- Strong understanding of OWASP Top 10, common vulnerability classes, and modern exploit patterns.
- Hands-on experience performing code review across at least two major languages.
- Deep familiarity with SAST, DAST, SCA, and CI/CD-integrated security tooling.
- Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, and cryptographic primitives.
- Experience with cloud security and modern infrastructure controls.
- Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language for tooling and automation.
- Experience working closely with engineering teams in an Agile environment.
- Industry certifications such as OSCP, OSCE, GWAPT, or CISSP.
- Experience with offensive security tooling and red-team operations.
- Bug bounty experience, public CVEs, or open-source security contributions.
- Familiarity with AI/LLM application security considerations.
- Exposure to regulated industries with strict compliance requirements.
Skills
Required
- OWASP Top 10
- SAST
- DAST
- SCA
- CI/CD-integrated security tooling
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Cryptographic primitives
- Cloud security
- Offensive security tooling
- Red-team operations
- AI/LLM application security