Positively disrupting an industry that has not seen any innovation in over 50 years, Tekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) for retailers, Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) for manufacturers and other large automotive enterprises and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) for technology and industry partners. Tekion connects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through one seamless platform. The transformative platform uses cutting-edge technology, big data, machine learning, and AI to seamlessly bring together OEMs, retailers/dealers and consumers. With its highly configurable integration and greater customer engagement capabilities, Tekion is enabling the best automotive retail experiences ever. Tekion employs close to 3,000 people across North America, Asia and Europe.
As part of our world-class engineering team at Tekion, we are expanding our Application Security Engineering function. Our development teams work across a variety of modern technology stacks in a fast-moving environment, making security both a challenge and an opportunity to innovate.
We prioritize guardrails over roadblocks in our security culture, empowering developers to move fast while ensuring security is built in, scalable, and resilient. This role will partner closely with engineering teams to integrate security into all phases of the SDLC — from design through deployment.
Leads application security initiatives across Tekion’s products and engineering ecosystem. Drives secure-by-design principles, threat modeling, DevSecOps integration, vulnerability reduction, developer enablement, and scalable application security controls across web, mobile, APIs, and cloud-connected systems.
Secure SDLC & Security Engineering
Promote secure-by-design principles across web, mobile, cloud, APIs, and distributed systems.
Threat Modeling & Architecture Reviews
DevSecOps & Security Automation
Integrate and optimize application security tooling such as SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning, IaC scanning, and API security controls.
Vulnerability Management Advisory
Security Enablement & Collaboration
Partner with product, engineering, cloud security, and infrastructure teams to identify and remediate security risks early.
6–9 years of experience in application security, product security, DevSecOps, or security engineering.
Familiarity with application architecture, threat modeling, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, serverless, and IAM.
Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language such as Python, Bash, Java, JavaScript, or Go.
Effective 4 Aug 2026, Current Tekion Employees should apply via the Internal Job Board in Ashby
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