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Sr. Engineering Manager, Application Security

210k – 250kNew York, NYHybrid7+ YOE
Summary

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.

About the role

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.
Skills
Application SecuritySecure SDLCThreat ModelingSecure Design ReviewVulnerability ManagementAWSKubernetesCI/CDContainersAI-assisted Security Tools
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