--- title: 'Staff Application Security Engineer at Reltio' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-application-security-engineer-reltio-united-states-10kdyc2kkcxn' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Staff Application Security Engineer at Reltio - **Company:** Reltio - **Location:** United States - **Compensation:** $145k–$207k - **Posted:** 2026-07-14 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/reltio/jobs/6102991004 ## Job description At Reltio®, an SAP Company, we believe data should fuel your success in the enterprise AI era. Our  Context Intelligence Platform turns fragmented data into a trusted, connected context so AI agents and systems can act with expert-level judgement at enterprise scale. Reltio’s cloud-native SaaS platform harmonizes, unifies, and governs data across sources and formats—including unstructured data—in real time, turning them into data assets that can be mobilized in milliseconds to any application, user, or AI agent. Trusted by more than 200 of the world’s largest brands across industries such as life sciences, financial services, healthcare, and technology, we fuel frictionless operations and help enterprises accelerate  innovation and reduce risk. At Reltio, our values guide everything we do. With an unyielding commitment to prioritizing our “Customer First”, we strive to ensure their success. We embrace our differences and are “Better Together” as One Reltio. We are always looking to “Simplify and Share” our knowledge when we collaborate to remove obstacles for each other. We hold ourselves accountable for our actions and outcomes and strive for excellence. We “Own It”. Every day, we innovate and evolve, so that today is “Always Better Than Yesterday”. If you share and embody these values, we invite you to join our team at Reltio and contribute to our mission of excellence. Reltio has earned numerous awards and industry and analyst recognition for our technology, our culture and our people. Reltio was founded on a distributed workforce and offers flexible work arrangements to help our people manage their personal and professional lives. If you’re ready to work on unrivaled technology where your desire to be part of a collaborative team is met with a laser-focused mission to enable digital transformation with connected data, let’s talk! Job Summary: As a senior individual contributor on the Application Security team, the Staff Application Security Engineer will help to define and drive Reltio’s application and product security architecture across a distributed, cloud-native SaaS platform. This role helps in the technical direction for securing how Reltio designs, builds, and ships software—helps to define the strategy and roadmap for secure SDLC, shift-left automation, and the secure adoption of API-driven and AI/agentic technologies. The Staff Application Security Engineer will partner with the Engineering, DevOps, Product, and Release Management teams to embed security as a foundational part of software design and delivery. The successful candidate will set standards, mentor and uplevel other security and engineering staff, lead complex threat modeling and architecture reviews, and develop novel techniques to identify and stop application- and AI-layer attacks—protecting Reltio’s intellectual property and customer data globally. Job Duties and Responsibilities: Security Architecture & Technical Leadership - Serve as the senior application security subject matter expert, providing guidance on industry best practices, secure design patterns, and defense-in-depth strategies for the product security architecture. - Helps to define and drive the overall application/product security architecture, vision, strategy, and roadmap across Reltio’s platform and services. - Influence engineering architecture and roadmap decisions without direct authority, driving risk-based consensus across teams. - Mentor and uplevel application security engineers and development teams, raising the secure-coding maturity of the broader organization. Secure Development Lifecycle & Shift-Left - Embed security throughout the SDLC, from design through deployment, and define secure coding standards and best practices adopted across teams. - Drive shift-left initiatives by providing guidance, tooling, paved-road patterns, and remediation support that enable engineers to build securely from the outset. CI/CD Pipeline Security - Design and implement security controls within CI/CD pipelines, enabling automated security testing and vulnerability detection at scale. - Operationalize SAST, SCA, DAST, and secrets scanning as policy-driven, low-friction gates; partner with release management on secure deployment checks and policy compliance. Threat Modeling & Risk Assessment - Lead threat modeling sessions for complex, high-impact systems to identify and mitigate security risks early in design and architecture phases. - Perform technical risk assessments of new technology and ensure solutions meet secure architecture designs; assess, measure, and clearly communicate risk impact to stakeholders. Vulnerability Management - Analyze and validate remediation of application security findings from SAST, SCA, DAST, API testing, penetration tests, and manual assessments. - Drive risk-based prioritization of fixes, reduce false positives, and provide clear, actionable remediation guidance with proper pre-release validation. API Security - Partner with engineering to ensure secure API design and implementation; identify and mitigate authentication/authorization issues, data exposure, rate-limiting gaps, and OWASP API Top 10 risks. AI & Agentic Security (Guardrails, MCP, LLM) - Helps to define AI security guardrails for Reltio’s AI and multi-agent platforms, addressing prompt/output validation, insecure model usage, data leakage, and tenant-isolation concerns. - Establish security standards for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and tools—covering tool authorization, scoping, and abuse prevention—and lead threat modeling of agentic workflows (autonomous tool use, indirect prompt injection, excessive agency). - Develop new and novel defense techniques to detect and stop advanced application- and AI-layer adversary tactics, and evaluate AI-assisted security tooling to scale detection and remediation. Penetration Testing & Security Validation - Perform and oversee application, API, and AI/agent penetration testing; build and curate test payloads (including prompt-injection and guardrail bypass suites) and validate control effectiveness. Training, Collaboration & Continuous Improvement - Deliver secure-coding, API, and AI-security guidance and hands-on support during code and design reviews. - Partner with DevOps, QA, Engineering, Product, and Release Management to integrate security requirements throughout development and release. - Stay current on emerging application, API, and AI/agentic security threats and continuously improve security processes, tooling, and overall posture. - Investigate security events and incidents leveraging security tooling, and support customer-facing security communications as needed. Skills You Must Have: - 8+ years of experience in application security or software development, including significant time in a cloud-native or SaaS environment. - Demonstrated technical leadership as a senior individual contributor: setting standards, driving cross-team initiatives, and influencing architecture without direct authority. - Hands-on experience with secure coding practices and modern application development; proficiency leading secure code reviews. - Strong understanding of cloud well-architected frameworks, application development, and deployment workflows. - Strong understanding of application security vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10) and prevention strategies. - Strong understanding of API security principles and the OWASP API Top 10. - Experience integrating security into CI/CD and release management processes (e.g., Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar). - Experience with application security testing methodologies—SAST, SCA, and DAST—integrated into CI/CD pipelines. - Experience with AI security concepts, including guardrails, prompt and output validation, data protection, and MCP security. - Hands-on experience with web technologies such as Java, Java Spring Boot, JavaScript, Node.js, C#, modern UI frameworks, microservices, and cloud-native/serverless architectures. - Experience with AWS, GCP, and/or Azure, and securing containerized environments and Kubernetes. - Hands-on experience with Burp Suite Pro for web and API testing. - Experience with modern application security platforms, with Wiz preferred (other AppSec tools acceptable). - Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to educate, collaborate, and drive risk-based consensus. - Self-starter with a history of driving technical initiatives; adaptable, agile, and effective in global, distributed teams. Skills That Are Nice to Have: - Hands-on experience securing LLM applications and multi-agent systems, including agentic guardrail frameworks (e.g., NeMo Guardrails, AWS Bedrock Guardrails) and MCP gateway/tool security. - Experience building or operationalizing AppSec automation/orchestration (SAST/SCA/secrets + AI analysis) and defect-management integration (e.g., DefectDojo). - Experience with commercial AppSec/SCA platforms such as Wiz Code, Veracode, Checkmarx, Cycode, or SonarQube. - Experience developing and operationalizing a vulnerability management or product security program at scale. - Experience with industry frameworks such as SOC 2, HITRUST, or ISO 27001, and supporting audit/customer-assurance processes. - Applying ML/AI techniques to enhance security detection, anomaly identification, and automated risk prioritization. - Relevant security and cloud certifications. At Reltio, we carefully consider a wide range of compensation factors to determine your personal top of market. We rely on market indicators to determine compensation and your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to get it right. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary and will also be dependent on your location. Overall Market Range $145,000—$207,000 USD Reltio is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Reltio is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. ## About Reltio ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Reltio provides a cloud-native data unification and context intelligence platform that harmonizes fragmented enterprise data to power AI agents and intelligent operations. - **Entity Type**: Private (Acquired by SAP SE; last known funding stage: Series E) - **Headquarters**: Redwood Shores, California, United States - **Founded**: 2011 - **Founders**: Manish Sood ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Master Data Management (MDM), Data Management & Analytics, Enterprise Software, AI Infrastructure - **Target customers**: Global 2000 enterprises, primarily in Life Sciences, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Technology (B2B, Enterprise) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To provide the mission-critical data foundation that businesses need to win in the experience economy, fueling AI agents and systems with trusted business understanding. ## Products & Services - **[Reltio Context Intelligence Platform]**: The core cloud-native SaaS platform that harmonizes, unifies, and enriches data and metadata across sources in real-time. It ingests structured and unstructured data into a dynamic semantic model to provide trusted context for any application, user, or AI agent. - **[Reltio Intelligent 360™]**: Delivers comprehensive 360-degree views of core business entities (customers, products, suppliers, etc.) by unifying fragmented data across silos. - **[Reltio Multidomain MDM]**: An AI-powered, agent-enabled master data management solution that automates data governance and quality for multiple domains (e.g., customer, product, location). - **[Reltio AgentFlow™]**: Enables the activation of trusted, unified data into autonomous AI agents and prebuilt agentic workflows. It automates data governance tasks and powers agentic intelligence for productivity and enrichment. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (SAP SE completed acquisition of Reltio in 2026; terms not publicly disclosed). - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of ~$90.4M (as of latest available data) and Total Funding of $237M. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: New Enterprise Associates, Brighton Park Capital, Sapphire Ventures, .406 Ventures, Crosslink Capital. - **Growth Signals**: Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Master Data Management Solutions; acquired by SAP SE in 2026, a major validation and strategic growth move; named Leader in multiple analyst reports. ## Competitive Advantages - **Cloud-Native & Real-Time**: Unlike legacy MDM systems, Reltio was built from the ground up as a cloud-native, SaaS platform, enabling real-time data unification and low-latency activation. - **Agentic AI Foundation**: The platform is designed specifically as a "context intelligence" layer for AI agents, pre-integrating data governance and enrichment into agent workflows — a clear competitive moat for the agentic AI era. - **Trusted by the Largest Enterprises**: Deep foothold in highly regulated industries (Life Sciences, Financial Services, Healthcare) where data quality and trust are non-negotiable. - **Post-Acquisition Scale**: Now part of SAP SE, providing immediate access to massive distribution, resources, and a global partner ecosystem. ## Strategic Focus - **Agentic AI Leadership**: Solidifying the platform as the standard "context engine" for enterprise AI agents, focusing on pre-built agents, workflow automation, and integration with leading AI ecosystems. - **Post-Acquisition Integration**: Scaling within the SAP portfolio and leveraging SAP’s global reach to expand into new enterprise segments and geographies. - **Unstructured Data**: Continuing to invest in unifying and enriching unstructured data sources alongside traditional structured data to provide a more complete business understanding. - **Sovereignty & Compliance**: Emphasizing data governance, privacy, and compliance features (including multi-tenant data sovereignty) to meet stringent global regulatory requirements. ## Why Work Here - **Culture & Values**: A customer-first, collaborative culture with strong values: "Customer First," "Always Better Than Yesterday," "Better Together," "Simplify & Share," and "Own It." - **Flexibility**: Rated highly for remote and flexible work environment, providing significant autonomy. Unlimited PTO is offered. - **Compensation & Benefits**: Health benefits described as "the best I’ve ever had" by employees. Stock options are granted to all employees. - **Growth & Impact**: Employees report working with "smart people and interesting clients" on a product they are proud of. The timing in the MDM/AI space is considered excellent, providing strong career growth opportunities. The company is fast-growing and has a bright future post-acquisition. - **Employee Sentiment**: 4.0/5.0 employer rating on LinkedIn (230 reviews). Breakdown: Work-Life: 3.9, Compensation: 3.8, Culture: 3.8, Career: 3.7. - **Workforce**: 492 employees globally (US, India, Portugal, UK, UAE, Netherlands, Canada, France, Poland). Technical roles are the largest department (37%). ## Sources 1. [reltio.com](https://www.reltio.com/) 2. [reltio.com/careers](https://www.reltio.com/careers/) 3. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/reltio-inc) 4. 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