# Sr. Engineering Manager, Application Security

**Company:** [Betterment](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/betterment)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $210k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Application Security, Secure Sdlc, Threat Modeling, Secure Design Review, Vulnerability Management, AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Containers, Ai-Assisted Security Tools
**Posted:** 2026-06-12

> Senior Engineering Manager leading Application Security squad to build secure software by default through threat modeling, design reviews, vulnerability management, and developer tooling. Requires hands-on team leadership and expertise across the AppSec stack.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Oversee the development of paved roads, libraries, and guardrails that make it easier for developers to commit, test, build, deploy, and operate code securely by default.
- Build and maintain the threat modeling, design review, and vulnerability management programs that protect customers, employees, and the business.
- Drive the adoption of AI across AppSec operations to achieve scaled security workflows, creating leverage for senior engineers.
- Lead and mentor engineers on Betterment’s senior-leaning AppSec squad.
- Establish strong lines of communication with stakeholders across engineering, product, legal, compliance, and risk to understand and deeply support the needs of teams building products across all business lines.
- Inspire and maintain a strong, equitable engineering culture founded on transparency, inclusivity, mentorship, and collaboration.
- Continuously innovate and seek out ways to meet the near- and long-term strategic security needs of the organization.

## Requirements
- Expertise across the application security stack: secure SDLC, threat modeling, secure design review, code review, vulnerability management, and the cloud-native ecosystem (AWS, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD).
- Experience with hands-on managing, mentoring, and inspiring a team of talented security engineers, including senior engineers. Demonstrated success as a true player-coach is a must.
- Experience establishing or scaling a Security Champions or distributed threat modeling program, with a focus on empowering engineering squads to own security outcomes and integrating these practices into the existing software development lifecycle.
- Experience leading execution of large team initiatives and execution of smaller concurrent projects in partnership with senior engineers.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted security tools and a curiosity for exploring how AI can enhance both security workflows and the security posture of the AI-powered features engineers are building.
- A real passion for application security and for empowering developers to do the right thing easily.
- Experience collaborating with other engineering teams, product managers, subject matter experts, and non-technical stakeholders such as legal, compliance, and risk.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with AI-assisted security tools and workflows.

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