appsec engineer

Scopely is a global video game and interactive entertainment company that creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates games across mobile, web, PC, and console. Its portfolio includes MONOPOLY GO!, Pokémon GO, Stumble Guys, Star Trek™ Fleet Command, MARVEL Strike Force, and other games, supported by the proprietary Playgami technology platform.

• Partner with game studios to develop comprehensive security strategies for game design and development;
• Conduct threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, and security audits across all phases of game development;
• Design and implement security controls and countermeasures to mitigate risks and ensure compliance with company policies, standards, and industry norms;
• Collaborate with game teams to advocate for secure coding practices and integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle;
• Coordinate and participate in penetration tests and game feature security assessments;
• Provide expert-level technical guidance to game teams securing games and backend infrastructure;
• Translate business priorities, technical constraints, and threat intelligence into actionable security roadmaps;
• Identify and implement AI opportunities for vulnerability management, security operations, and product security processes;
• Build AI-driven workflows, tools, and agents to reduce manual effort and improve speed and accuracy;
• Use AI to support vulnerability triage, risk classification, remediation guidance, and findings analysis;
• Partner with Security Operations to improve detection, triage, investigation, and response through automation and AI-assisted analysis;
• Integrate AI capabilities into security platforms such as Wiz, SIEM, Jira, and IAM systems;
• Develop reusable AI-enabled components that scale across teams and studios;
• Establish guardrails for safe and effective AI use in security, including data handling, quality control, and human review;
• Define success metrics for AI-enabled workflows, including productivity gains, response times, remediation throughput, and signal quality;
• Design and implement scalable security solutions across cloud and backend systems;
• Work with information security domain owners to ensure games follow relevant security policies, standards, and regulatory requirements;
• Develop and maintain documentation on security architectures, processes, and decisions for technical and non-technical stakeholders;
• Improve security engineering efficiency through automation and tooling;
• Stay updated on security technologies, trends, threats, and AI capabilities;
• Interact with game studio leaders to understand roadmaps, risk posture, and how information security can support secure execution;
• Develop security-related roadmaps with game teams;
• Report to Information Security and Studio management on the threat landscape and security posture of games;
• Act as a thought leader using qualitative and quantitative risk assessment frameworks;
• Lead or assist with security incidents and investigations.

• 8+ Years of experience in Product Security, software development, or cybersecurity;
• Proven experience securing large-scale software applications and systems;
• Strong experience building automation and security tooling;
• Hands-on experience applying AI/LLMs to operational workflows, including designing, evaluating, and safely deploying AI-assisted systems;
• Ability to communicate business risk and technical information clearly to technical and non-technical audiences;
• Expert knowledge of modern programming languages such as Python and C#;
• Strong understanding of application and product security, vulnerability management, and penetration testing methodologies;
• Strong understanding of API and backend security;
• Experience with mobile application penetration testing, including traffic interception, runtime analysis, and API security;
• Experience with modern development ecosystems, CI/CD pipelines, APIs, and developer platforms;
• Hands-on experience with AWS shared responsibility, IAM, access control, and cloud network security;
• Strong understanding of securing cloud workloads through configuration, deployment, and auditing;
• Deep knowledge of Linux security practices;
• Ability to think like both an attacker and defender;
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills;
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills with the ability to influence across teams;
• Nice to have: Experience architecting and managing high-scale, high-velocity workloads in AWS, familiarity with OWASP, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, GDPR, CCPA, and ISO 27001, experience at a game company, experience applying AI to security, automation, or developer workflows, familiarity with RAG architectures, vector databases such as pgvector, and AI-assisted code analysis or pentesting.

• Hybrid role based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, with the security team covering Spain and Portugal;
• No conditions specified.