Application Security Engineer Prin

About this role

Dayforce is a global human capital management (HCM) company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, with operations across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region.


Our award-winning Cloud HCM platform offers a unified solution database and continuous calculation engine, driving efficiency, productivity and compliance for the global workforce.


Our brand promise - Makes Work Life Better™ - Reflects our commitment to employees, customers, partners and communities globally.


About the opportunity

As an Application Security Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in helping our engineering teams design and build secure, resilient applications. You’ll lead hands-on product security assessments, collaborate on secure architecture and threat modeling, and influence engineering practices to raise the bar for software security across our organization.

What you'll get to do

Lead product security reviews: Drive security assessments across applications and services - including web applications, APIs, and microservices -through code reviews, threat modeling, and dynamic/static analysis.

Influence architecture and design: Serve as a security thought partner for product architects and engineers. You'll guide threat modeling efforts, assess technical risk, and champion security best practices throughout the SDLC.

Drive strategic initiatives: Own high-impact security projects that shape the future of our product security posture. Past initiatives have included supply chain security automation, advanced SAST/DAST integrations, and secure development training programs.

Identify and support remediation of vulnerabilities: Leverage available tools (e.g., static/dynamic analysis, scanning platforms, and internal reports) to investigate security issues, assess root causes, and design effective remediation strategies. Partner closely with engineering teams to provide gu...