Sr. Software Engineer CICD Platforms

We are a leading global asset management firm with over 3,000 employees across 20 offices in 15 countries; we help millions of investors around the world pursue their financial goals.

We hire critical thinkers. People who thrive in a collaborative culture like ours where we solve real problems while building the future of finance.

You

• Are excited to be part of a vibrant engineering community that values diversity, hard work, and continuous learning.

• Love solving complex real-world business problems.

• Recognize that cross-functional collaboration is a core component of success for the team.

• Believe there are multiple ways to solve most technical problems and are willing to debate the trade-offs.

• Have become a stronger engineer by making mistakes and learning from them.

• Are a doer, someone who wants to grow their career and gain experience across technologies and business functions.

We

• Continuously invest in a high-performance and inclusive culture, in which a diversity of backgrounds, experiences and viewpoints are celebrated and valued.

• Encourage career mobility, so you can benefit from learning different functions and technologies, and we gain the benefits of your experience across teams.

• Run technology pro bono programs that help the non-profit community and give our engineering community opportunities to volunteer and participate.

• Offer education reimbursements and ongoing training in technology, communication, and diversity & inclusion.

• Embrace knowledge sharing through lunch-and-learns, demos, and technical forums.

• Consider our people to be our greatest asset—we will help you learn what PIMCO Technology has to offer so you can participate in activities that benefit your career while delivering impactful technology solutions.

Role Overview

We are hiring a Senior Application Security Engineer to build scalable security solutions that make application security simple, practical, and developer-friendly across PIMCO. You will partner closely with developers, infrastructure, platform engineering, and security to deploy solutions at scale.

If you love building, teaching, and solving real-world security problems across complex environments, this role is for you.

What You Will Do

1). Lead Security Campaigns & Build Solutions (60%)

Design and integrate scalable technical solutions that address application security weaknesses.

Build tools and automation; integrate security across the SDLC/CI-CD.

Develop code samples, demo apps, libraries, and templates that make secure development easy.

Partner with infra/platform teams to operationalize solutions and reduce app risk.

2). Support Engineering Teams (20%)

Provide hands-on guidance to help teams triage and remediate vulnerabilities.

Advise on secure design, patterns, and remediation approaches that work in production.

3). Build Education Content & Documentation (10%)

Create Wikis, runbooks, secure coding guides, and short-form learning content.

Lead internal sessions focused on practical, developer-first security.

4). Cross-Functional Collaboration (10%)

Work with product, cloud, architecture, and security to integrate security early.

Drive adoption of secure-by-design practices across a global, matrixed org.

Requirements

• 5+ years as a Software Developer or Application Security Engineer.

• Proficient in one or more languages: Java, Python, Go.

• Strong engineering fundamentals; Linux and shell scripting experience.

• Hands-on with SCA, Secrets Scanning, SAST, DAST and secure coding practices.

• Cloud exposure: AWS, Azure, containers, Kubernetes.

Nice to have

• Experience with vulnerability management platforms (ArmorCode or similar).

• Proven ability to work independently and drive outcomes end-to-end.

• Comfortable operating in a global, matrixed organization.

• Developer empathy with a track record of making security approachable.

• Strong written and verbal communication; clear documentation and enablement mindset.

PIMCO follows a total compensation approach when rewarding employees which includes a base salary and a discretionary bonus. Base salary is the fixed component of compensation that is determined by core job responsibilities, relevant experience, internal level, and market factors. The discretionary bonus is used to award performance and therefore is determined by company, business, team, and individual performance.
Salary Range: $ 130,000.00 - $ 168,000.00

Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Statement

PIMCO recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, national origin, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity and expression), age, military or veteran status, disability (physical or mental), any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other basis such as medical condition, or marital status under applicable laws.

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