Application Security Engineer

As PandaDoc continues to scale, we’re expanding our security team and looking for an Application Security Engineer to help shape and strengthen our security foundations. In this role, you’ll take ownership of key security initiatives across our application, working closely with engineering to embed security into every stage of development. You’ll contribute to building a proactive, automation-driven security culture while addressing both current risks and emerging challenges, including AI security.

In this role, you will:

Review, test, and monitor our applications to identify security weaknesses
Manage vulnerabilities from discovery through remediation, working directly with engineering teams to resolve them
Respond to infrastructure security alerts and perform hardening, including reviewing roles and permissions across services and APIs
Participate in incident response and root cause analysis
Analyze and monitor relevant security threats and prevention measures based on industry trends and standards
Partner with product, development, and infrastructure teams to embed security requirements into how they build
Integrate and operate automated security testing across the development lifecycle, including SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets detection, container, and supply chain security
Develop security automation and tooling to scale security across engineering
Drive threat modeling and secure-by-design practices across our services
Assess our overall security posture and identify risks, providing recommendations to strengthen it
Assist in addressing emergent threats in AI security as PandaDoc deploys AI in its product and for internal use

Our stack:

Service-oriented architecture
Main development stacks: Java/Spring, Python/Django, JavaScript/React
Docker, Kubernetes
Amazon Web Services: EKS, RDS, S3, ElastiCache, etc.
Monitoring stack: Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir
Source control & CI/CD: GitHub / GitHub Actions
A combination of AWS native and 3rd party security solutions for infrastructure and application security (WAF, CNAPP, SCA/SAST, DAST, IDS/IPS, etc.)

About you:

3+ years of experience with application security tools such as SAST/SCA, DAST, WAF, CI/CD security, and penetration testing
2+ years of cloud security experience implementing security controls and best practices in AWS, GCP, or Microsoft Azure
Strong background in web application security, including common vulnerability classes (OWASP Top 10, CWE Top 25), attack vectors, and mitigations
Good understanding of access control and identity management principles (SAML 2.0, OAuth, OIDC, JWT, etc.)
Practical skills building security automation and tooling with Python, Bash, or equivalent languages
Experience implementing DevSecOps practices across the SDLC
Familiarity with containerized, Kubernetes-based environments and their security
Solid interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
Upper-Intermediate English level (B2+)

Company Overview:

PandaDoc empowers more than 60,000 growing organizations to thrive by taking the work out of document workflow. PandaDoc provides an all-in-one document workflow automation platform that helps fast scaling teams accelerate the ability to create, manage, and sign digital documents including proposals, quotes, contracts, and more. For more information, please visit https://www.pandadoc.com.

Company Culture:

We're known for our work-life balance, kind co-workers, & creative virtual team-bonding events. And although our Pandas are located across the globe, we stay connected with the help of technology and ensure that everyone on our team feels, well, like a team.

Pandas work best when they're happy. We retain our talent by upholding our values of integrity & transparency, and selling a product that changes the lives of our customers.

Check out our LinkedIn to learn more.

Salary:

The monthly base salary for this role is 21,000 PLN to 24,750 PLN.

Benefits:

Our team members and their families have access to comprehensive benefits including:

Multisport Card for fitness and wellness activities (individual or family plan)
LuxMed healthcare coverage (individual or family plan)
UNUM life insurance protection (individual or family plan)
Onboarding benefit allowance that can be used for necessary work equipment and setup
6 self-care days beyond standard Polish vacation entitlements
Wellness, learning and development budgets
Employees may be able to purchase company stock or receive annual bonuses.

PandaDoc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal treatment of all employees without regard to race, national origin, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, physical or mental disability or other basis protected by law.

EXTERNAL RECRUITERS

Approval Requirement

The use of external recruiters/staffing agencies requires prior approval from our HR Team. The HR Team at PandaDoc requests that external recruiters/staffing agencies not to contact PandaDoc employees directly in an attempt to present candidates. Complying with this request will be a factor in determining future professional relationships with PandaDoc.