AI-Driven AppSec Engineering Manager

Qualia; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

401k program

Commuter benefits

Parental leave

Flexible time off

Onboarding program

All-hands and virtual events

Job summary

Qualia, the leading real estate technology platform, seeks an entrepreneurial Engineering Manager to scale our Application Security team. You will lead senior AppSec engineers, design AI-assisted pen-testing pipelines, and drive a security-first product approach across Core, Infra, and product engineering squads.

The role blends hands-on security with people leadership in a fast-moving fintech environment. You’ll work with Platform, Infra, and product leaders to embed security early in

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a security or full-stack engineer working on production systems, with 2+ years managing a security or platform engineering team.
• Hands-on depth in application security: threat modeling, code review, and at least one offensive-security discipline (pen testing, red team)
• Track record of shipping automation that changed how a team worked - ideally including meaningful use of LLMs, agents, or ML in a security or engineering workflow
• Comfort operating across the full security lifecycle: prevention, detection, response, and recovery
• Strong written communication. You can write the design doc, the post-mortem, and the board-ready summary
• Keen product sense and a bias toward measurable impact. You care whether the risk actually went down
• Experience in fintech, real estate tech, or another regulated, high-liability domain preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Application Security team - coaching senior AppSec engineers, setting goals, and owning delivery against the security roadmap
• Build the automated pen-testing program. Stand up pipelines that run continuous, AI-assisted offensive testing against our services, APIs, and web properties
• Scale triage with AI. Design workflows and tooling to handle 10x the volume of findings
• Review engineering proposals. Assess RFCs and proposals with engineering leaders across multiple teams
• Run red-teaming exercises. Drive recurring red team engagements with internal and vendor efforts
• Own the AppSec vision. Set multi-quarter strategy across anomaly detection and AI-augmented defense
• Fight fires when they happen. Lead incident response from application security and guide engineering decisions
• Mentor and hire. Build a culture that pushes and supports growth

Skills

Security engineering

Team leadership

AppSec

Threat modeling

Automation

AI in Security

Communications

Product mindset

Tools

SAST/DAST/SCA

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Qualia, the leading real estate technology platform, seeks an entrepreneurial Engineering Manager to scale our Application Security team. You will lead senior AppSec engineers, design AI-assisted pen-testing pipelines, and drive a security-first product approach across Core, Infra, and product engineering squads.

The role blends hands-on security with people leadership in a fast-moving fintech environment. You’ll work with Platform, Infra, and product leaders to embed security early in