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# Senior Application Security Engineer (Red Team) at Altruist

- **Company:** Altruist
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA
- **Compensation:** $170k–$225k
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://altruist.com/join-altruist/6186195004?gh_jid=6186195004

## Job description

## About Altruist

Altruist is transforming the multi-trillion dollar wealth management industry by building an AI platform for wealth professionals. We partner with financial advisors nationwide, empowering them to grow, optimize time and resources, and deliver superior outcomes for their clients.

We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all. If you're passionate about challenging the status quo and want to do the most important work of your life, we'd love to meet you!

But first, our values

Kindness - Kindness doesn’t just equal niceness. We listen to understand. We embrace, and encourage healthy debate and diverse perspectives. We approach conflict openly, honestly, and respectfully.

Brilliance - Humility is the skill we’re most proud of and possessing a growth mindset is always top of mind. We take ownership in everything we touch; regularly using our unique superpowers to reach a common goal as a team. We succeed and fail as one.

Grit - When challenges arise, we stay laser focused on achieving our mission and finding a way forward, even when it’s hard. We are nimble and maintain a sense of urgency, swiftly adapting to change and overcoming obstacles.

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## About the position

Altruist is in the midst of an exciting phase and we’re excited to hire a Senior Application Security Engineer to join our growing Security team. Your expertise will ensure our products are secure — by continuously attacking them the way a real adversary would.

This role follows a hybrid schedule, with three days per week onsite in our San Francisco FiDi or Culver City office.

## Your impact

- Pentest the Altruist web application, APIs, infrastructure, Android application, and iOS application.
- Break security controls continuously so we can build them better each time.
- Perform focused authorization and exploitability assessments on high-risk attack paths
- Conduct cloud pentests and identity-focused offensive testing.
- Run purple-team exercises with Detection & Response and help build detections from your tradecraft.
- Develop and maintain offensive tooling and repeatable testing playbooks; contribute to phishing and social-engineering assessments.
- Document findings with reproducible proofs-of-concept, clear risk ratings, and actionable remediation guidance.

## What you’ll bring

- Experience - 4+ years of experience working as an Application/Product Security Engineer:
- Experience as a pentester across web, API, and mobile targets
- Extensive experience with security assessments
- Experience with tools such as Burp Suite
- Strong ability to work independently
- Education - A B.A. / B.S. degree in relevant fields such as Computer Science or Computer Engineering or Information Security or relevant experience
- Technical aptitude - You’re technologically savvy and can easily get up to speed on modern tech stacks (i.e., Java, Spring, Terraform, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Ownership - The pride you put into every aspect of your work is unparalleled and undeniable
- Superb communication - Intentional dialogue is a superpower. You listen as well as you share your perspective with others.
- Resilience - We’re inspired by your unwavering determination to achieve success, no matter the adversity you face along the way.
- Assurance - Your confidence is brilliant, yet ego-less. You possess a strong knowledge base, the ability to discover the unknown, and are open to differing perspectives.
- Creative problem solving - Identifying the problem is simply not enough. You’re instinctually creative with your approach in finding solutions to roadblocks.

Bonus points if you bring

- Experience working in regulated environments (fintech / financial services)
- Mobile application pentesting (OWASP MASVS) and cloud/red-team / adversary emulation experience
- Relevant certifications (e.g., OSCP, OSWE, GXPN)

Los Angeles, CA salary range $170,000—$225,000 USD

## What we bring

Attracting and retaining top-tier talent is a priority. We are proud of the culture we’ve built and are cognizant of the ever-changing professional landscape. Our dynamic offering of perks and benefits are tailored for you to feel your best while doing your best.

- Stunning, amenity-filled office spaces in Culver City, CA, San Francisco, CA, and Dallas, TX. Our offices are intentionally designed for comfort, collaboration, and productivity.
- Competitive total compensation.
- Premium healthcare, dental, and vision insurance plans (HMO and PPO).
- 401k savings plan with a 4% match and immediate vesting.
- 16 week paid parental leave after one year of employment.
- Professional growth and development opportunities including an employee mobility program and an annual L&D budget allocation for each employee.
- Company perks program (includes discounts on pet insurance, fitness, cell phone plans, and travel, etc.).
- Financial guidance program (includes counseling on navigating debt, tracking personal spend, saving and planning goals, home-purchasing preparedness, etc.).
- One month work from anywhere policy (with the exception of a few countries).

Total compensation includes a competitive benefits package, along with a bonus program for eligible roles. For salaried positions, a salary offer will be determined by a number of factors including experience, skill level, internal pay equity, geographic location, and other relevant business considerations. We review all employee pay and compensation programs regularly to ensure fair, equitable, and competitive pay. At Altruist, we are committed to providing fair, equitable, and competitive compensation by leveraging market data to inform our pay bands. Base salaries will be reviewed at regular intervals throughout the year, typically in conjunction with performance review cycles. By evaluating compensation on a regular basis, we are able to reward high performance and ensure all employees have opportunities for growth.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Altruist we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

## About Altruist

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Altruist is the AI-forward custodian and wealth platform for independent advisors, on a mission to make financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to everyone.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series F, raised $152M at a $1.9B valuation in 2025; total funding over $600M)
- **Headquarters**: Culver City, California, USA (with offices in San Francisco, CA and Dallas, TX)
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Jason Wenk (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Fintech, wealth management, asset custody, financial services
- **Target customers**: Independent Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) – B2B
- **Mission/purpose**: To make independent financial advice better, more affordable, and more accessible to everyone.

## Products & Services
- **Custodial Platform**: Fully digital, self-clearing custodian regulated by SEC, FINRA, OCC, and 53 states/territories. Supports 30+ account types, digital ACATs, and asset protection guarantees (SIPC + excess policy via Lloyd’s of London, up to $3M FDIC insurance).
- **Trading & Portfolio Management**: Commission-free fractional share trading, smart order routing, automated rebalancing, tax-loss harvesting, fixed-income trading, and a model marketplace with 500+ models (up to 3x cheaper than average TAMP).
- **Hazel (AI Platform)**: AI that draws on real-time custodial data, CRM, email, and notes to power faster answers and more personalized advice. Provides instant responses to advisors.
- **Billing & Reporting**: Built-in fee billing automation and custom performance reporting without separate reporting systems.
- **Client Portal**: Co-branded desktop and mobile experience for clients.
- **Integrations**: 25+ integrations with CRM, financial planning, and other tools.
- **High-Yield Cash**: Idle cash accounts yielding up to 8x national average, with FDIC insurance through partner banks.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1.9 billion (Series F, 2025) – conflicting reports may exist but this is the most recent explicit figure.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding exceeds $600 million.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Insight Partners, ICONIQ, GIC, Venrock, Vanguard, Salesforce Ventures.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 112% year-over-year growth in number of RIAs served – fastest rate of any custodian.
  - #1 highest-rated custodian in 2026 according to the T3/Inside Information Software 2026 Survey.
  - 6,000+ independent advisors run their firms on Altruist.
  - In 2026, Altruist’s AI-powered tax planning tool shifted an estimated $20 billion in market value in a single day.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified platform**: Combines custody, trading, portfolio management, billing, reporting, and AI in one system – eliminates need for multiple vendors.
- **Self-clearing capabilities**: Fully digital, reduces operational friction for advisors.
- **AI-first approach**: Hazel provides real-time, context-aware answers unique in the custodian space.
- **Scale & trust**: Holder of multiple regulatory licenses, SIPC membership, and large FDIC insurance coverage.
- **High satisfaction**: #1 rated custodian, indicating strong product-market fit.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI expansion**: Continue building Hazel and AI tools (e.g., tax planning) to deepen advisor capabilities.
- **Enterprise growth**: Launch of General Manager of Enterprise role signals push into larger RIA firms.
- **Platform breadth**: Rapidly release new features in planning, operations, and client engagement to replace fragmented solutions.
- **Disruption of custodial incumbents**: Target legacy providers with modern, integrated, lower-cost platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Core values include Kindness, Brilliance, Grit, and Growth Mindset. The company emphasizes work-life integration, purpose-driven work, and equal opportunity.
- **Benefits**: Competitive compensation and equity for all team members; health, dental, and vision coverage available on day one; opportunities for career growth in a fast-growing company.
- **Work style**: Three office locations (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas) with a collaborative in-person culture.
- **Impact**: Employees feel good about their work helping independent advisors serve more clients and democratize financial advice.
- **Engineering culture**: The company was built by a small team of engineers and former advisors; innovation and speed are core.

## Sources
1. [altruist.com](https://altruist.com/about-us/)
2. [altruist.com](https://altruist.com/careers/)
3. [altruist.com](https://altruist.com/)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/altruistcorp)
5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/altruist)

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