Senior Application Security Engineer

We're hiring a Security Engineer to help us secure the next generation of fintech products.

Location: Gurugram (on-site)

1. Application Security Engineer

Position Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively & proactively with software engineering verticals to define secure application, infrastructure, and deployment requirements.
• Participate in architecture discussions to recommend security best practices during design stages.
• Maintain an application vulnerability management program and carry out assessments to uncover security risks across applications, APIs, and services.
• Conduct secure code reviews, threat modeling, and security assessments across the software development lifecycle (SSDLC).
• Design and develop automated solutions to integrate SAST, DAST, and SCA tools into CI/CD pipelines.
• Provide guidance on secure coding practices and support developer enablement through training and playbooks.
• Partner with product managers and engineering to ensure security is embedded from design to release.
• Support compliance / regulatory requirements (e.g., PCI, SOC2, GDPR) related to applications.

Position Requirements

• 24 years of hands-on experience in Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing for Web and Mobile applications.
• Strong experience in SAST, DAST, SCA, and application penetration testing methodologies.
• Knowledge of API security, OWASP Top 10, and secure microservice/API design.
• Experience conducting application security reviews, root cause analysis, and secure architecture reviews.
• Familiarity with modern cloud-native application architectures (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Ability to collaborate with software engineering teams to integrate security into DevOps/DevSecOps practices.

Good to have experience / skills:

• Experience with threat modeling frameworks (e.g., STRIDE, PASTA).
• Exposure to container security (Docker, Kubernetes, image scanning).
• Experience implementing security automation within CI/CD pipelines.

Pluang Offers

• Attractive compensation packagecompetitive salary, flexible bonus scheme.
• We are always looking for ways to promote and inspire innovation. So, come build your dream with us.
• Individual career pathmanagement and technical career growth, enhanced by learning and development program, regular performance assessment, and teams of multinational IT professionals.
• Healthy work environmentcompany-sponsored medical program, food and beverage program, and open communication.
• Friendly policies to support work-life balance, team building, and celebrations.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Pluang Company Overview

Empower millennial to achieve financial freedom through a diversified range of simple investment options

At Pluang, it is our dream to provide access to all financial products and investment options in a simple and easy way. We believe that people from any background should be able to access the market of financial products.

Supported by robust technology, Pluang empowers you to achieve future financial freedom. Our user-friendly application helps you to do financial investment with a very low budget but high return.

Pluang is affiliated with PG Berjangka, which has a trading license from Bappebti.