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Role Overview

NBCUniversal is seeking a Staff Cyber Systems Engineer to build and scale modern application security capabilities across the enterprise.

This hands-on role within Software Security Services combines deep AppSec expertise, software engineering skills, cross-team thought leadership, and experience building automation, integrations, platforms, and developer-facing security capabilities.

The role turns application security strategy into working solutions, including golden paths, remediation automation, secure AI guardrails, and integrated developer workflows.

Although primarily focused on Application Security engineering, this role works closely with Cloud Security, Platform Engineering, and Software Engineering teams at NBCUniversal.

Key Responsibilities

Application Security Engineering

• Design, build, and improve application security capabilities that support secure software development across NBCUniversal.
• Build reusable security automations, integrations, APIs, workflows, and developer tools that reduce manual effort and improve scalability.
• Implement secure-by-default golden paths, paved roads, and engineering patterns that make secure development easier to adopt.
• Design and implement scalable security solutions spanning source code, open source dependencies, containers, cloud-native applications, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, developer platforms, and software supply chains.
• Partner with Cloud Security on capabilities spanning application code, containers, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, cloud platforms, and software supply chain workflows.
• Improve vulnerability prioritization, triage, remediation, validation, reporting, and speed to remediation.

Secure AI and Agentic Workflow Enablement

• Build security patterns, guardrails, and reusable implementations that support safe use of AI-assisted development tools and coding assistants.
• Build capabilities that secure agentic workflows, AI-enabled developer tooling, and machine-assisted software delivery.
• Use automation and AI-enabled techniques to improve vulnerability triage, remediation planning, developer guidance, and workflow efficiency.
• Tooling, Automation, and Platform Integration
• Build integrations between application security platforms, GitHub, CI/CD systems, developer portals, ticketing systems, reporting platforms, and other engineering tools.
• Create telemetry, dashboards, and reporting pipelines for actionable visibility into application risk, coverage, and remediation progress.

Technical Leadership and Enablement

• Serve as a senior technical expert for application security engineering, secure software development, software supply chain security, and secure AI development.
• Partner with architects, platform engineers, cloud security engineers, and development teams to turn security direction into working technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers and improve the team’s engineering practices, automation skills, and technical depth.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Application Security, Security Engineering, DevSecOps, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Deep experience with secure software development, application security, vulnerability management, and software supply chain security.
• Hands-on experience building security automations, integrations, APIs, platforms, developer tooling, or similar engineering solutions.
• Strong software engineering and scripting skills using Python or similar languages.
• Hands-on experience integrating AppSec technologies such as SAST, SCA, secrets detection, container security, CI/CD security, and vulnerability management into developer workflows.
• Ability to solve complex, ambiguous technical problems and influence adoption through implementation, documentation, and collaboration.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, and related security considerations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Snyk, Wiz Code, Github Advanced Security, Checkmarx, Veracode, or similar application security platforms.
• Experience building secure developer platforms, internal tools, paved roads, golden paths, or reusable engineering services.
• Experience across AppSec and CloudSec domains, including cloud-native architectures, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD security, CSPM, CNAPP, or related technologies.
• Experience with software supply chain security, SBOM capabilities, dependency risk workflows, or artifact security processes.
• Experience using AI to improve vulnerability management, remediation workflows, security operations, or developer productivity.

Additional Requirements: 

• Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-NBCUniversal worksite, most commonly an employee’s residence. 

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $120,000 - $145,000 (bonus eligible) 
We are accepting applications for this position on an ongoing basis. 

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. 

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