# Lead Security Engineer (Application Security)

About us Encord is the universal data layer for AI that helps 300+ AI teams train and run models on the right data. Our platform indexes, curates, annotates, and evaluates data across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production. Trusted by Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more. We're an ambitious team of 100+ working at the frontier of AI and have raised $60M in Series C funding from Wellington Management, CRV, Next47 and Y Combinator. About the role As Lead Security Engineer, you'll own application security across our platform, embedding secure practices into how we design, build, and ship software, and setting the direction for a growing security function. What you'll do Own the application security program end to end: threat modelling, secure design reviews, code review, and vulnerability management. Build security into the SDLC with SAST, DAST, dependency/SCA, and secrets scanning integrated into CI/CD without slowing teams down. Partner with engineering on authentication, authorization, multi-tenancy isolation, and data protection across our APIs and SDKs. Lead penetration testing, bug bounty triage, and incident response for application-layer issue

- **Id**: 4187839
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/encord-lead-security-engineer-application-security>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T16:50:28Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T18:45:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3321
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual leave, Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Application Security, MLOps, AI Training Data & Annotation

## Company

- **Id**: 557
- **Name**: Encord
- **Domain**: encord.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/encord>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 38
- **Ghost share**: 0.079
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 69
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GDPR** — Optional: no
- **HIPAA** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **OWASP Top 10** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SOC 2** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **UiPath** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T18:45:50Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 69
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T20:52:12Z

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