Which roles ask for Application Security at tech companies · 63 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
63 roles counted that list Application Security, one per company, title and level; 97 postings in the window.
In short
Application Security: listed in 63 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 50 and preferred in 13. The largest group is security engineer roles: 32 of 63 (51%).
- Required
- 50 of 63 (79%)
- Of the roles that list Application Security
- Preferred
- 13 of 63 (21%)
- Of the roles that list Application Security
- Largest group
- 32 of 63 (51%)
- Security engineer
Roles that ask for Application Security
Roles listing Application Security, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.
| Role | Roles | Of the role's roles we read |
|---|---|---|
| Security engineer | 32 | 32 of 126 (25%) |
| Software engineer | 18 | 18 of 719 (3%) |
| Software architect | 5 | 5 of 32 |
| Data engineer | 2 | 2 of 99 (2%) |
| Platform engineer | 2 | 2 of 57 (4%) |
| AI engineer | 1 | 1 of 70 (1%) |
| DevOps engineer | 1 | 1 of 58 (2%) |
| QA engineer | 1 | 1 of 63 (2%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 1 | 1 of 70 (1%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- Axonius2 roles
- Black Duck Software, Inc.2 roles
- Cohere2 roles
- Datadog2 roles
- Datavant2 roles
- Endor Labs2 roles
- Glean2 roles
- Semgrep2 roles
- Stripe2 roles
- abridge2 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 63 Application Security roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| CI/CD | 26 of 63 (41%) |
| Python | 22 of 63 (35%) |
| AWS | 20 of 63 (32%) |
| Authentication | 16 of 63 (25%) |
| Authorization | 16 of 63 (25%) |
| Cybersecurity | 16 of 63 (25%) |
| Threat Modeling | 15 of 63 (24%) |
| Cloud Security | 14 of 63 (22%) |
| Git | 14 of 63 (22%) |
| Go | 14 of 63 (22%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| CI/CD | 9 of 63 (14%) |
| AWS | 8 of 63 (13%) |
| GCP | 7 of 63 (11%) |
| Kubernetes | 7 of 63 (11%) |
| Python | 7 of 63 (11%) |
| AI | 6 of 63 (10%) |
| AI Coding Tools | 6 of 63 (10%) |
| LLMs | 6 of 63 (10%) |
| Agile | 5 of 63 (8%) |
| Azure | 5 of 63 (8%) |
Experience
Of the 36 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 36 of 36
- 2+ years
- 35 of 36
- 3+ years
- 34 of 36
- 5+ years
- 28 of 36
- 8+ years
- 9 of 36
- 10+ years
- 4 of 36
Degree
Of the 49 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 1 of 49
- Required, or experience instead
- 11 of 49
- Preferred
- 3 of 49
- Not mentioned
- 34 of 49
Pay and remote work
Of the 63 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 35 of 63 (56%)
- Remote roles
- 41 of 63 (65%)
How we count: 63 roles from 52 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology