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We provide the financial infrastructure that powers the global economy. As a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, Cboe delivers cutting-edge trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world.\nWe’re building meaningful ways to support professional and personal development while strengthening the trust we’ve earned as a global market leader. Our teams are empowered to share ideas, actively pursue them and bring on a challenge. As champions of internal mobility and access to opportunity, we encourage our people to “go for it” and equip our managers with the training to coach their teams to the next level. We strive to provide employees a safe space to network, share ideas and create opportunities.\nTo support strong partnership and team connection, this role follows a four day in office work model.\nLocation Overview\nCboe HQ is located in the historic Old Post Office district, it’s a landmark that blends classic architecture with modern amenities. The building features expansive spaces with high ceilings and large windows, offering an abundance of natural light and panoramic views of the city skyline and the Chicago River.\nWith its prime location in the heart of downtown, the OPO Building provides easy access to major transportation hubs, including Union Station and multiple CTA lines, making it convenient for commuters. The building is home to a variety of amenities, including restaurants, a fitness center, and collaborative workspaces, creating a vibrant and dynamic work environment in one of Chicago's most iconic areas.\nRole Overview\nCboe’s Cybersecurity team is seeking a Principal Application Security Engineer to provide senior technical leadership and end-to-end ownership for embedding pragmatic, scalable security across our hybrid engineering ecosystem. In this role, you will partner closely with application, platform, and infrastructure teams to define secure-by-default architecture patterns, shape strategic security direction, and drive implementation of security controls throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) across microservices, APIs, and containerized workloads operating in both public cloud and on-premises Kubernetes environments.\nYou will operate as a principal-level individual contributor with broad technical influence, accountable for setting direction in complex or ambiguous situations, making high-impact architectural decisions, and driving consistent security outcomes across multiple teams and platforms. This role requires deep hands-on expertise, strong systems thinking, and the ability to influence engineering practices, standards, and priorities at scale while serving as a trusted technical leader for both security and engineering stakeholders.\nThis position reports to the Senior Manager, Application and Cloud Security.\nYour responsibilities will be:\nApplication & API Security\nOwn secure architecture reviews and threat modeling for new systems and major changes, establishing architectural direction for Kubernetes trust boundaries, secure service-to-service communication, and API authorization models across the environment\nDefine, mature, and drive adoption of application and API security standards, including authentication and authorization patterns, input validation requirements, and mitigations for common vulnerability classes such as SSRF, injection, and access control flaws\nProvide principal-level guidance for high-risk code and design changes, resolving complex security tradeoffs and driving remediation approaches that are durable, scalable, and aligned to engineering realities\nAct as a senior technical partner to engineering leadership, influencing roadmaps, architecture decisions, and secure-by-default design patterns across the organization\nKubernetes, Container & DevSecOps Security\nOwn Kubernetes workload security standards across multi-cluster environments, setting technical direction for RBAC, pod security controls, namespace isolation, network policies, secrets management, and platform guardrails\nEstablish and continuously evolve the container image security strategy, including secure base image standards, vulnerability management expectations, SBOM practices, and deployment controls that prevent risky configurations from reaching production\nDrive the design and adoption of DevSecOps guardrails in CI/CD pipelines, ensuring SAST, SCA, secret scanning, container scanning, and IaC scanning are integrated through high-signal workflows that scale across engineering teams with minimal developer friction\nSoftware Vulnerability Management & Security Enablement\nOwn the strategy for risk-based software vulnerability management, including triage, exploitability assessment, remediation priorities, service level expectations, and metrics that demonstrate measurable reduction in security risk over time\nDevelop and champion secure coding guidance, reusable security patterns, and enablement programs that raise engineering capability and create lasting improvements in how teams design and build software\nLead security design support during incident response and post-incident follow-through, translating lessons learned into durable architectural, control, and guardrail improvements that prevent recurrence\nAI Implementation Security\nOwn the secure adoption of AI-enabled development and security capabilities, establishing patterns and guardrails for secure code review, automated assessments, and process improvements throughout the SDLC.\nProvide principal-level architecture and risk guidance for AI implementations and integrations, shaping secure design decisions, control expectations, and review practices for emerging use cases.\nDrive governance and technical controls to define, monitor, and enforce data boundaries, permissions, and approved usage patterns for AI-related data access.\nThe ideal candidate has\n12+ years of experience in application security, product security, or software engineering, including significant experience shaping architecture, setting standards, and driving security outcomes across complex production environments\nExperience directly writing and delivering production software as a software engineer\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field preferred\nRelevant certifications preferred (e.g., CSSLP, CKS, OSCP, AWS/Azure Security Specialty)\nProven ability to read, write, and review production-grade code in at least one modern backend language (e.g., C++, Go, Java, C#, Python, Node.js), with the judgment to guide secure engineering decisions in high-impact systems\nStrong working knowledge of Kubernetes security primitives (RBAC, namespaces, service accounts, pod security) and container build practices\nHands-on experience integrating DevSecOps tooling (SAST, SCA, secret scanning, IaC/container scanning) into CI/CD pipelines\nExperience securing hybrid environments with workloads running in both public cloud (EKS, AKS, GKE) and on-prem Kubernetes platforms\nExceptional communication, influence, and technical leadership skills, with a demonstrated ability to drive alignment, establish direction, and own outcomes across engineering, platform, and security stakeholders\nBenefits and Perks\nWe value the total wellbeing of our people - including health, financial, personal and social wellness. We believe standard benefits like health insurance and fair pay are given at any organization. Still, you should know what we offer:\nMedical Coverage\nPrescription Drug Coverage\nAdditional Medical Benefit\nDental Coverage\nVision Coverage\n401K or Pension Company Match\nSpending Accounts\nLife and AD&D Insurance\nRetirement Savings Plan\nEmployee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)\nVoluntary & Additional Benefits\nPaid Time Off\nMore About Cboe Global Markets\nWe’re reimagining the future of the workplace by focusing on what matters most, our people. Our journey is an inclusive one. We’re investing deeply in leadership programs and career development initiatives that ensure everyone has an equal chance to succeed.\nWe work with purpose, solving problems with ingenuity, collaboration, and a lot of passion. We’re an engaged and excited team connecting markets across borders and embracing growth in all its forms to achieve incredible outcomes.\nLearn more about life at Cboe on LinkedIn and Cboe.com.\nEqual Employment Opportunity\nWe’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on any legally protected characteristic, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status. We are committed to fostering a workplace where all individuals are valued and respected.\nThis position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship now or in the future.\nSalary Ranges (applicable for US locations only)\nAt Cboe, we are committed to providing a competitive, transparent, and market-informed total rewards program. The anticipated base salary range for this role is $163,625-$211,750, with actual compensation determined by job-related factors such as skills, relevant experience, education, internal alignment, and location.This role may also be eligible for annual incentive compensation and, where applicable, participation in Cboe's long-term equity programs.\nAdditional information about Cboe's total rewards program, including benefits and other compensation components, can be found here: Total Rewards at CBOE.\nAny communication from Cboe regarding this position will only come from a Cboe recruiter who has a @cboe.com email or via LinkedIn Recruiter. 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