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Principal Security Engineer, SDO AppSec EMEA

📍 Location
London
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
June 08, 2026

About the Role

Description
As a Principal Security Engineer in the Appstar organization, you lead application security reviews across complex systems, identify and advise on critical security risks, and mentor the broader security engineering team. You own security outcomes that reduce persistent risks and proactively shape organization-level security posture.

You are responsible for establishing and maintaining the enterprise-wide application security review methodology — including threat modelling philosophy, security testing standards, and remediation validation. You design security patterns and standards that serve as the foundation for secure development across all engineering organizations, with a focus on increasing automation of discoverable vulnerabilities and reducing manual security work for both builder and security teams.

You make critical architectural decisions for systems handling billions in revenue, evaluating high-risk design decisions and setting security stan...

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