Security Engineer — Application Security & Identity
Real Chemistry
| Company | Real Chemistry |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Boston - Massachusetts; Carmel - Indiana; Chicago - Illinois; Lambertville - New Jersey; Remote - USA |
| Remote | Remote |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 30 Jun 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (greenhouse) |
Description
At Real Chemistry, making the world a healthier place isn’t just an aspiration—it’s our everyday reality. Our drive to transform healthcare is informed by our blend of deep scientific expertise, human-centred creativity, and AI-driven insights, fostering a unique environment where innovation thrives and our people are impact-obsessed. As a global agency, we provide a full suite of services across healthcare communications and marketing to our clients, including top players in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
Our #LifeatRealChem culture is rooted in our people—we believe we are best together and are committed to excellence for both our clients and colleagues. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting your career, if you share our passion for healthcare and connection, we invite you to explore our opportunities.
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Security Engineer — Application Security & Identity
Function: Information Security Reports to: Head of Security
Role Summary
Owns application security across multiple environments, each with increasing control and compliance requirements. Acts as reviewer for the least complex environments and co-reviewer for higher complexity and controlled environments. Defines and enforces security controls across AWS hosted workloads and GitHub based development pipelines while maintaining independent review authority.
Applications originate as AI-assisted prototypes and require structured security validation before enterprise production deployment.
This is a hybrid role, based in any of our US offices—including New York City, Boston, Chicago, Carmel, or San Francisco—or remotely within the US, depending on team and business needs.
Key Responsibilities
Conduct security reviews of Internally developed applications including:
Data flow validation
Security control design and implementation
Secrets handling
AI/LLM Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Co-lead production readiness reviews for strictly governed environments:
Threat modeling
Hardening validation
Compliance mapping (SOC 2and contractual and regulatory requirements)
Define and enforce identity architecture:
Corporate identity: Entra ID
Workload identity: AWS IAM and GitHub OIDC
Define and manage GitHub native security controls :
GitHub Advanced Security (CodeQL / SAST)
Dependabot (dependency scanning)
Secret scanning
Branch protection and environment controls
Establish standards for security tooling:
SAST (CodeQL, Semgrep)
SCA (Dependabot, Snyk)
Container scanning (Trivy, ECR scanning)
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) policy (OPA, Sentinel, tfsec)
Define AWS security standards:
IAM design and least-privilege access
Logging and audit requirements
Secrets management and rotation
Scope and coordinate third-party penetration testing
Maintain audit logging maturity per environment requirements:
Baseline logging
User-level activity tracking
Tamper-evident audit trails with SIEM integration
Perform initial triage and risk classification within time requirements for critical issues identified in intake (data exposure, credentials, regulatory risk).
Partner with DevOps Engineering to ensure security policies are implemented in pipelines and infrastructure
AI Security & Usage Governance
Define approved AI providers and usage boundaries
Establish prompt data classification and handling policies
Enforce human-in-the-loop requirements where appropriate
Define cost/spend guardrails for AI services
Required Qualifications
5+ years (or 3–5+ in high-growth environments) in cloud security, 2 of which should be be focused application security
Hands-on security experience with:
AWS IAM
SAML / OIDC federation
GitHub security tooling
Experience with threat modeling a
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