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Application Security Engineer

Census Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Posted: 20 May 2025

Financial

  • Estimate: $70k - $100k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Office Only
  • Apply from abroad
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Intermediate
  • English: Professional

Position

CENSUS is looking for talented and ambitious professionals to join our Product Security Professional Services team. In this role, you will leverage your expertise in Application Security to conduct design reviews, implementation assessments, and mitigation consulting across various industry products. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Executing comprehensive security posture assessments for mobile, web, cloud, and special purpose applications through methodologies such as source code auditing, functional testing, fuzz testing, and reverse engineering.
  • Reviewing product security designs, supporting threat modeling efforts, and documenting security control gaps while driving enhancements.
  • Researching and proposing technologies that meet client requirements while aligning with their strategies.
  • Validating CI/CD pipelines and auditing deployment configurations across various hosting environments.
  • Ensuring that output implementations align with the security architecture and requirements.
  • Documenting and presenting security risks in both technical and business-oriented language.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • MSc or BSc in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2+ years of experience in application security, which may include engineering, development, assessment, or consultancy roles.
  • Proven experience in developing, auditing, or testing application-level security solutions for platforms such as mobile, web/cloud, embedded/IoT, or special-purpose computing.

Key Skills:

  • Experience identifying and reporting security vulnerabilities related to web/cloud, mobile, or IoT applications (e.g., OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities).
  • Proficiency in reading and understanding source code, identifying security flaws across a range of programming languages including Swift, Kotlin, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, C++, and more.
  • Familiarity with various authentication and authorization technologies such as OAuth, MFA, SSO, JWT, and PKI.
  • Basic understanding of cryptographic methods and key management.

Language Requirements: Proficiency in English is expected; additional languages may be a plus.

Nice-to-Have:

  • Experience in performing design-level security reviews.
  • Familiarity with application reverse engineering or fuzz testing methods.
  • Knowledge of DevSecOps processes and tools for applications hosted on-premise or cloud environments.

CENSUS is an internationally acclaimed cybersecurity services provider. We support the needs of multiple industries, delivering IT and OT security services to public and private organizations worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies. Our cutting-edge research and extensive engineering experience enable us to provide unparalleled security consulting and assessment services for a wide range of cybersecurity products, infrastructure, and organizations.

Location: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Work Conditions: On-site, Full-time

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About Census

Census is an independent, privately funded and internationally acclaimed Cybersecurity services provider. We support the needs of multiple industries, providing IT and OT security services to public and private organizations around the world, including international financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies. Powered by cutting edge research, scientific analysis and real-world engineering, CENSUS delivers unparalleled security assessment services for software, devices, infrastructure, and organizations. Through assessment services that cover all aspects of product development we enable clients to meet the requirements of planned product releases. Through focused consultancy services we help clients in their cybersecurity maturity journey, improving their cyber resilience and protecting their digital investments. CENSUS is committed to the highest standards of service delivery and operations. We are an ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and CREST certified company, while our engineering team holds Offensive Security, CREST, GCIH, CEH, ISACA Cobit5 and ISO 27001 & 9001 auditor certifications. We constantly strive for technical excellence in our work and high-quality deliverables, to best support the complex needs of those that define the Digital Now.