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Application & API Security Engineer / Lead
<p>This role leads application and API security assessments and partners with engineering teams to ensure secure design practices across internally developed applications, AWS-hosted services, and enterprise integrations. The focus is on identifying and mitigating security risks early, including during prototype and pre-production stages.</p><p>Key responsibilities</p><p>• Lead application and API security assessments and security design reviews for internally developed applications, cloud-native services, and enterprise integrations</p><p>• Evaluate authentication, authorization, transport security, secrets management, logging, error handling, rate limiting, session management, and data exposure risks</p><p>• Partner with engineering and architecture teams to embed secure-by-design principles across application and integration patterns</p><p>• Support secure design and security review of prototype solutions prior to enterprise adoption or production deployment</p><p>• Assess external exposure risks, reverse engineering threats, and control hardening needs</p><p>• Provide actionable security recommendations and guidance aligned with enterprise standards and best practices</p><p>• Contribute to application security patterns, guardrails, and repeatable review processes</p><p><br></p>
<p>• Strong experience in application and API security, including design reviews and threat modeling</p><p>• Hands-on knowledge of authentication and authorization models (OAuth, OIDC, JWT, service-to-service auth)</p><p>• Experience securing APIs, microservices, and cloud-native architectures (AWS preferred)</p><p>• Familiarity with secure coding practices, secrets management, logging, and monitoring</p><p>• Ability to communicate security risks clearly to engineering and architecture stakeholders</p><p>• Experience reviewing systems prior to production go-live</p><p><br></p>
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  • Minneapolis, MN
  • remote
  • Temporary / Contract
  • 85.5 - 120 USD / Hourly
  • <p>This role leads application and API security assessments and partners with engineering teams to ensure secure design practices across internally developed applications, AWS-hosted services, and enterprise integrations. The focus is on identifying and mitigating security risks early, including during prototype and pre-production stages.</p><p>Key responsibilities</p><p>• Lead application and API security assessments and security design reviews for internally developed applications, cloud-native services, and enterprise integrations</p><p>• Evaluate authentication, authorization, transport security, secrets management, logging, error handling, rate limiting, session management, and data exposure risks</p><p>• Partner with engineering and architecture teams to embed secure-by-design principles across application and integration patterns</p><p>• Support secure design and security review of prototype solutions prior to enterprise adoption or production deployment</p><p>• Assess external exposure risks, reverse engineering threats, and control hardening needs</p><p>• Provide actionable security recommendations and guidance aligned with enterprise standards and best practices</p><p>• Contribute to application security patterns, guardrails, and repeatable review processes</p><p><br></p>
  • 2026-05-05T00:00:00Z

Application & API Security Engineer / Lead Job in Minneapolis, MN | Robert Half