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Application Security Researcher (f/m/d)

SonarSource • Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany • Posted June 07, 2026

Location Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia
Job Type Employee / Full-Time
Category Computer Occupations
Posted June 07, 2026

What you will do


  • Build expertise on various language ecosystems in order to identify the most common vulnerabilities that developers are facing.

  • Investigate how these vulnerabilities materialize within the code.

  • Define the static analysis rules that will detect these vulnerabilities.

  • Interact with our user community to clarify this invaluable feedback and turn it into actions/decisions, such as refining too noisy vulnerability detection rules or improving taint-analyzer vulnerability reports with contextual information.

  • Drive innovation to make our SAST engine even better.

  • Study competitors and provide gap analyses.

    • Experience and qualifications

    Technical skills
  • Mastering application security basics, including knowing the most common vulnerabilities, how to locate vulnerabilities in the code, and how to exploit basic vulnerabilities. To be successful, you should b...

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