Contract: Application Security Engineer

Upwork(13 days ago)

RemoteFull TimeMedior$111,295 - $147,512 (estimated)Cybersecurity

About this role

An Application Security Analyst on Upwork’s Hybrid Workforce Solutions team focuses on identifying, analyzing, and reducing application-layer security risk across the platform. The role emphasizes triage, validation, and prioritization of findings from automated scanners and external researchers rather than tool administration or architecture ownership. The analyst collaborates with engineering, vulnerability management, and security operations to ensure findings are accurate and remediated in a risk-informed way.

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Required Skills

SAST
DAST
SCA
Vulnerability Triage
Bug Bounty
BurpSuite
OWASP Top10
Code Review
CI/CD
API Security

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