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title: 'Security Engineer, Application Security at Saronic Technologies'
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# Security Engineer, Application Security at Saronic Technologies

- **Company:** [Saronic Technologies](https://feeny.ai/companies/saronic-technologies)
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/saronic/127af12f-be14-45d6-9085-fd4b7b347134

## Job description

Saronic Technologies is a leader in revolutionizing autonomy at sea, dedicated to developing state-of-the-art solutions that enhance maritime operations through autonomous and intelligent platforms.

Security at Saronic is a force multiplier, not a blocker. We’re looking for a Security Engineer for Application Security to empower our teams to ship fast without trading away safety to secure the software development lifecycle and supply chain across product, cloud, and enterprise systems. The software org ships rapidly and rely on the security team to provide guardrails to enable that speed and scale safely. You’ll be that owner, and you’ll fix whole classes of problems rather than chasing one bug at a time. You’ll partner closely with Software, DevOps, Cloud, and Platform Engineering to make secure the default, not the exception. This is an opportunity to build the application-security function from a strong foundation, own the security of the pipelines and supply chain that produce mission-critical software, and build the guardrails and paved roads that let teams deploy securely by default.

## What You’ll Do

- Secure SDLC & DevSecOps: Run threat modeling and secure design and code reviews for new and existing systems. Integrate SAST, DAST, and SCA into CI/CD and secure pipelines from commit to deploy with gates that developers actually welcome.
- Software Supply Chain: Own dependency and supply-chain security: SCA, SBOMs, artifact signing and provenance, and reducing accumulated dependency and secrets exposure.
- Secrets & Application Controls: Govern secrets management, application allowlisting/blocklisting, and support data-loss-prevention through software controls.
- Secure Self-Hosting Infrastructure: Design and harden the infrastructure and patterns for securely self-hosting software applications, for internal enterprise use, embedded within our products, and delivered to our customers, across AWS, Azure, and on-prem. Provide hardened base images, network isolation, identity and secrets management, patching, and monitoring so any team can stand up a self-hosted application securely by default instead of routing every request through manual review.
- Partnership: Embed with engineering teams and build the tooling that scales security across the org.

Required Qualifications

- 5+ years in application security, DevSecOps, or product security, or an equivalent combination of experience and demonstrated ability
- Hands-on secure SDLC: threat modeling, secure code review, and SAST/DAST/SCA in CI/CD
- Software supply-chain security (SCA/SBOM/signing) and secrets management
- Experience securing the deployment and self-hosting of applications (hardened images, isolation, identity, patching, monitoring)
- Comfortable in scripting and Infrastructure-as-Code so you can build durable tooling, not one-off commands and clicks
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

## Preferred Qualifications

- Container and cloud security; application allowlisting
- Securely self-hosting or delivering applications to customers across AWS, Azure, and on-prem
- An attacker’s mindset; bug-bounty triage experience
- Experience in defense, aerospace, or other high-assurance environments If this role is based in the United States, it requires access to export-controlled information or items that require “U.S. Person” status. As defined by U.S. law, individuals who are any one of the following are considered to be a “U.S. Person”: (1) U.S. citizens, (2) legal permanent residents (a.k.a. green card holders), and (3) certain protected classes of asylees and refugees, as defined in https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/8/1324b.

Saronic does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

## About Saronic Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Saronic Technologies builds autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) that combine hardware, software, and artificial intelligence to deliver scalable maritime security and domain awareness for naval forces.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, total funding $2.6B)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Dino Mavrookas (CEO), Vibhav Altekar (CTO), Doug Lambert (COO), Rob Lehman (CCO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Defense and Space Manufacturing – autonomous maritime systems
- **Target customers**: U.S. and allied naval forces, government defense agencies (B2G)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Redefine maritime superiority” by providing the most advanced and capable autonomous vessels to address emerging threats and revolutionize naval warfare.

## Products & Services
- **Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASVs)**: A family of unmanned vessels (including models like *Mirage*, *Cipher*, and the 150‑foot *Marauder*) designed for launch from small craft, fleet assets, or beachheads. Capabilities include adaptive path planning, passive sensor tracking, resilient multi‑channel communications, and diverse payload integration.
- **Echelon Platform**: A unified software suite for mission planning, simulation, and command‑and‑control of autonomous surface vessels.
- **Capabilities Suite**: Integrated hardware/software stack covering launch, maneuver, perceive, communicate, execute, enable, and recover.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (latest Series D at $1.8B implies a valuation well into the billions)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $2.6B (Seed, Series A, Series B, and Series D); annual revenue reported at $9.5M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: 8VC (Seed lead), Caffeinated Capital (Series A lead), Andreessen Horowitz (Series B lead), Kleiner Perkins (Series D lead). Strategic acquisition of Gulf Craft (April 2025) to accelerate shipbuilding.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 785 employees (+218.7% YoY), 296 active job postings, awarded a $392M Navy contract, international offices in Australia, United Kingdom, and Japan.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founder experience**: Co‑founder/CEO Dino Mavrookas is a former Navy SEAL with eight combat tours; the leadership team includes veterans and technologists who understand military needs firsthand.
- **Proven technology**: Autonomous vessels already deployed in contested environments, with a $392M Navy contract validating the platform.
- **Vertical integration**: In‑house manufacturing and software development, plus the acquisition of Gulf Craft for scaled shipbuilding.
- **Rapid scaling**: Massive funding and headcount growth signal strong investor and customer confidence.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling production of ASVs from prototype to full manufacturing lines (new Head of Manufacturing hired).
- Expanding vessel lineup with larger platforms (150‑foot *Marauder*) and international partnerships in the Indo‑Pacific and Europe.
- Deepening the software ecosystem (Echelon) for mission planning and manned‑unmanned teaming.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include “United We Win” (teamwork, respect), “Trust Fuels Triumph” (transparency, integrity), “Solutions Driven” (creative problem‑solving), and “One Mission” (national security focus).
- **Work environment**: Primarily on‑site in Austin, TX, with additional offices in Australia, UK, and Japan. High‑growth startup pace with a mission‑driven defense focus.
- **Perks & ratings**: LinkedIn employer rating 4.2/5.0 (compensation 4.5, culture 4.0, career 4.3). Notable talent drawn from SpaceX, Tesla, Anduril, Blue Origin, and Lockheed Martin.
- **Engineering culture**: Heavy emphasis on cross‑disciplinary teams (perception, navigation, ML, C2, systems integration) and building “captainless” ships.

## Sources
1. [saronic.com](https://www.saronic.com/) – Homepage, capabilities, and news (Navy contract)
2. [saronic.com/team](https://www.saronic.com/team) – Founders, leadership, values
3. [saronic.com/mission](https://www.saronic.com/mission) – Mission statement
4. [linkedin.com/company/saronic-technologies](https://www.linkedin.com/company/saronic-technologies) – Financials, headcount, funding rounds, investors, reviews
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/saronic](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/saronic) – Active job postings

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