Security Engineer Resume Template (2026)

A cybersecurity and application security resume targeting AppSec, cloud security, and security engineering roles.

Summary

Security Engineer with 6 years of experience in application security, cloud security, and security tooling. Specialise in threat modelling, SAST/DAST integration in CI/CD, and reducing mean time to remediate vulnerabilities. OSCP certified.

Experience
Senior Application Security Engineer
Cloudflare — Austin, TX
Feb 2021 – Present
  • Built a secrets detection pipeline scanning 2,000+ GitHub PRs/day — caught 340 credential leaks before merge in the first year
  • Led threat modelling for 4 new product features, identifying 22 high/critical findings that were remediated pre-launch
  • Integrated SAST (Semgrep) and DAST (OWASP ZAP) into CI/CD, reducing vulnerability discovery time by 65%
  • Ran quarterly security training for 120+ engineers; phishing simulation click rate dropped from 18% to 4%
Security Engineer
Okta — San Francisco, CA
Aug 2018 – Jan 2021
  • Performed security reviews for all auth-related features; zero auth bypass vulnerabilities shipped to production
  • Developed an internal AWS IAM access analyser catching over-privileged roles across 8 AWS accounts
  • Responded to 12 security incidents; average containment time 4.2 hours against industry average of 24 hours
Certifications
Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
Offensive Security
2022
AWS Security Specialty
Amazon Web Services
2023
Skills
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AppSec: SAST, DAST, Threat Modelling, Burp Suite, Semgrep, OWASP
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Cloud Security: AWS Security, IAM, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Terraform
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Languages: Python, Go, Bash, SQL
Education
B.S., Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin
Aug 2014 – May 2018

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