Engineer - Application Cybersecurity (Remote)

About the role

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Description

Connecting People. Uniting the World. There’s never been a more exciting time to join United Airlines! As a global company that operates in hundreds of locations around the world — with millions of customers and tens of thousands of employees — we have a unique responsibility to uplift and provide opportunities in the places where we work, live and fly.

We’re on a path to becoming the best airline in aviation history. Join our Cybersecurity and Digital Risk (CDR) team to help lead the industry in cyber safety, security and resilience. United's CDR team plays a critical role in protecting our operations by enabling secure and resilient systems, managing threats and vulnerabilities, and ensuring swift response and recovery. Our mission is to seamlessly embed cybersecurity and digital risk management into every aspect of our business. We help drive progress and growth through trusted digital solutions, safeguarding assets and empowering our team, all while promoting a cyber-safe and secure environment that supports resilient airline operations.

United offers a competitive benefits package aimed at keeping you happy, healthy, and well-traveled. From employee-run "Business Resource Group" communities to world-class benefits like parental leave, 401(k), and privileges like space-available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work. Are you ready to travel the world and help us keep our airline cyber safe? Apply today!

Job Overview and Responsibilities

The Engineer- Application Cybersecurity helps validate that our services, applications, and websites are designed and implemented in accordance with United’s secure development standards. The engineer works closely with development teams, product teams, and other teams across the organization to integrate security into the product lifecycle from design through deployment.

The engineer will support the enforcement of security requirements, performing application security assessments, and providing developers with remediation guidance and advice.

Perform code analysis of applications, manually and using application security testing solutions including mobile application security tests as well as conducting manual vulnerability analysis, and assisting product teams with vulnerability remediation

Improve the accessibility of security through automation, continuous integration pipelines, and other means including but not limited to developing and maintaining CI/CD templates

Research, define and communicate security best practices and standards and ensure products development teams understand them

Support security architecture design reviews and threat modelling of our products

Qualifications

What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

Bachelor's degree required, STEM field preferred

Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience or ECDLP

Working knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and CWE 25

Experience designing, developing, or integrating AI-powered security agents and automated workflows to enhance vulnerability triage, exploitability analysis, secure code review, remediation and/or continuous security assurance across the SDLC

Basic understanding of threat modeling

Basic understanding of DevSecOps (e.g., CI/CD)

Working knowledge with application testing (e.g., SAST, DAST, MAST, RAST, IAST)

Working knowledge of programming languages and scripting

Basic understanding of SDLC process

Basic understanding of web and app security stack (e.g., API security)

Basic understanding of cloud technologies and security

Basic understanding of vulnerability management processes and proficiency in providing remediation guidance

Basic technical understanding of authentication and authorization flows in web applications

Ability to work independently and self-motivate

Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, interpersonal, collaboration, written and verbal communication skills

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship

Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification

Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position

What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):

IAWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Certified Application Security Engineer

Experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling, AI powered-security agents, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security, cloud computing

Experience with AWS technologies

Working knowledge of C#, Java, Python, Swift, JavaScript, generative AI/LLMs, agent orchestration frameworks, and API integrations to build scalable security automation. Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI agent frameworks, and AI-assisted code analysis and remediation is highly desirable

Basic understanding of compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53) and processes

Working knowledge with technical documentation / Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) creation

Basic understanding of cryptography

Basic understanding of networks and network security (e.g , WAF, Micro-segmentation)

Job Post Expiration 11/9/2026

The base pay range for this role is $89,965.00 to $117,212.00.

The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.

You may be eligible for the following competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges.

United Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request an accommodation, contact JobAccommodations@united.com

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