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# Senior Application Security Engineer at BioRender Inc.

- **Company:** BioRender Inc.
- **Location:** United States / Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/biorender/am9icG9zdDr3DDY63Nv3IOFWrpDFriH2

## Job description

At BioRender, we’re on a mission to accelerate the world’s ability to learn, discover, and communicate science – transforming how knowledge is shared and making science open, collaborative, and easily understandable by all. We’re shaping the future of science communication and are looking for talented individuals to help bring this vision to life! 🚀

BioRender is seeking a Senior Application Security Engineer to join our Security team – an engineer first, who contributes directly to the codebase rather than managing security from the sidelines. You'll help define how security is built into our engineering organization, contributing production code across our application (Node.js/React/Python) and infrastructure (Python, Terraform, AWS, Cloudflare) while shaping secure-by-design patterns, CI/CD automation, and engineering workflows that let the company move quickly and safely.

You'll work AI-natively, using AI coding assistants and agentic tooling to accelerate your own work while helping secure the AI-powered capabilities we're building. If you're excited by building developer-friendly security systems, solving meaningful engineering problems, and focusing on the threats that actually matter, we'd love to hear from you.

## What you'll do

Hands-on engineering & codebase contribution

- Contribute production-quality code directly to the application (Node.js/React) and infrastructure (Python, Terraform) – you ship fixes and hardening yourself, not just findings for others to action.
- Build and maintain security and CI/CD tooling for automation, keeping the secure path the default path.
- Act as a security reviewer on RFCs and design documents, and pair with engineers to resolve issues at the source. Architecture, design & secure SSDLC
- Define secure-by-design patterns and drive standards for authentication, authorization, and API security.
- Lead threat modeling on new and existing systems and turn those models into shipped controls.
- Own and evolve the Secure SDLC and CI/CD security integration (SAST/DAST/SCA/secrets) – tuned for high signal and low noise. AI-native security & automation
- Work AI-natively: use AI coding assistants and agentic tooling to accelerate code review, triage, and tooling development.
- Secure AI-integrated product features – reasoning about prompt injection, data leakage, and over-scoped tool, token, and data access.
- Automate recurring security work so the team scales through leverage, not headcount. Web & product security (active defense)
- Perform penetration testing and code reviews (Node.js/React) using OWASP methodology.
- Drive identification and remediation of application security vulnerabilities (SAST/DAST/HackerOne).
- Own the bug bounty program end to end – issue evaluation, reproduction, and closing findings by shipping fixes.

## What you bring

- Demonstrable software engineering ability – you read code fluently, write production-quality code that engineers respect, and have contributed to real codebases (Node.js/React; Python a plus).
- Fluency using AI development tools (AI coding assistants, agentic workflows) to get the job done, and a clear-eyed view of the security risks they introduce.
- Expertise in web application security and secure-coding best practices, and the ability to review code and application findings.
- Experience integrating and maintaining SAST/DAST systems within CI/CD, and with Secure Software Development Life Cycles.
- Hands-on experience securing cloud workloads on AWS and comfort with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent); familiarity with Cloudflare a plus.
- Threat-modeling experience and command of common code and network vulnerability types, their impact, and remediation.
- Applied knowledge of cryptography, PKI, and TLS and their practical implementation.

Nice to have:

- Experience hardening LLM-integrated or AI-powered features in production.
- Experience operating a bug bounty program (e.g. HackerOne).
- Contributions to SOC 2 control design and audit readiness from the engineering side.
- Relevant certifications (e.g. OSCP, OSWE, AWS Security Specialty) – valued, but not a substitute for engineering ability.

Why join us?

- We are mission-driven: we work collaboratively towards our shared vision of improving scientific communication and accelerating scientific discovery. BioRender figures have appeared in more than 54,000 publications!
- BioRender is loved by millions! We have a world-class NPS and a community of loyal fans and users in 200+ countries!
- Our company is backed by top investors and accelerators like Y Combinator, and we are on a growth trajectory comparable to many top-performing SaaS companies
- We’re remote-first with team members across Canada and the U.S., offering you the flexibility to work from anywhere.

BioRender is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

## About BioRender Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: BioRender is the world’s first software platform that enables scientists to quickly create and share professional, publication-ready scientific figures and illustrations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed; Y Combinator graduate; $17.3M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (with a significant presence in the United States)
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Shiz Aoki (CEO), Katya Shteyn (CTO), Ryan Marien

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Life Sciences, Scientific Communication, Software Development
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C – researchers at universities, pharmaceutical companies, government labs, and scientific journals; over 4 million scientists globally
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To empower scientists to visually communicate their science, turning ideas, data, and discoveries into clear, trustworthy visuals, and giving researchers time back to focus on their science.

## Products & Services
- **BioRender (SaaS)**: A web-based platform with no download required. It offers a library of over 50,000 scientifically accurate icons and templates from 30+ fields of biology. Users can build figures, graphs, and slides, and the platform now includes AI features that generate editable figures and allow precise edits using natural language. It also supports data graphing (import from Prism, CSV, Excel) and flowchart/protocol generation. The software is used for grants, journal submissions, presentations, and posters.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $17.3M (as of latest Series A in April 2023). The company is also reported to be profitable.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (lead investor in Seed and Series A rounds). Other investors in earlier rounds include undisclosed angels.
- **Growth Signals**: 199 employees (+16.2% YoY); 50+ active job postings (+78.6% YoY); over 24 million scientific figures created; users in 100+ countries; 500,000+ publication citations; trusted by top research institutions worldwide.

## Competitive Advantages
- **World’s largest library** of editable, scientifically accurate visuals, curated by industry professionals.
- **AI that gets the science right** – built on the library, it can generate and modify figures with contextual understanding of biology.
- **Deep domain expertise** – co-founder Shiz Aoki was a lead medical illustrator for National Geographic, and the team understands the unique challenges of scientific communication.
- **High switching costs** – deeply integrated into researchers’ workflows (figures, grants, publications); over 24M figures created and 500K citations.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI‑powered scientific communication**: Expanding AI features to accelerate figure creation and editing.
- **End‑to‑end workflow**: Integrating data analysis, graphing, figure creation, and presentation building into one platform.
- **Scaling enterprise sales**: Hiring for enterprise product marketing and account executives to serve large pharma and academic institutions.
- **Remote‑first growth**: Continuing to hire across the US and Canada, with a distributed team spanning 5 countries.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Passionate problem‑solvers at the intersection of science and technology; emphasis on science communication and impact.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Proudly remote‑first. Teams meet 2–4 times per year for hackathons and quarterly planning. Employees can work from another country for up to three months per year.
- **Perks and benefits**: Comprehensive health and dental (including mental health and HSA), equity ownership (all employees are part‑owners), salary top‑up and baby bonus for growing families, virtual lunch‑and‑learns, games, and happy hours.
- **Engineering culture**: Practical assessments in interviews; focus on skills and career growth; strong technical team (40 in technical roles, 16% of workforce). Average engineer salary ~$120K USD.

## Sources
1. [BioRender About Page](https://www.biorender.com/about)
2. [BioRender Careers Page](https://www.biorender.com/biorender-careers)
3. [BioRender Homepage](https://www.biorender.com/)
4. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/biorender)
5. [Gem Careers Page](https://jobs.gem.com/biorender)

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