App Security Engineering Manager - AI-Driven Tooling

Referment; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment is seeking an Engineering Manager for Application Security in New York. You will lead a team blending security consulting, product-security development and developer tooling while embedding security across the SDLC.

You will shape scalable security work as AI capabilities evolve, stay hands-on with tooling and secure design, and influence senior technical stakeholders across the business. This is a leadership role for a technically hands-on security leader.

Qualifications

• At least ten years in security or software engineering with leadership in app/product security.
• Experience guiding static/dynamic analysis or automated security testing in dev workflows.
• Sound judgement embedding security in the software development lifecycle.
• Ability to influence senior technical stakeholders and make pragmatic trade-offs.
• Knowledge of AI security and agentic security tooling.

Responsibilities

• Manage and guide a team responsible for app-security consulting and product-security development.
• Partner with development teams on secure design, testing, implementation and review.
• Set strategy for scalable, automated app-security work as AI capabilities evolve.
• Remain hands-on across developer-facing security tooling, automated testing and secure design.
• Build alignment with senior technical stakeholders and partner functions.

Skills

Security leadership

Application security

Dev security tooling

AI security awareness

Stakeholder influence

Job description

Referment is seeking an Engineering Manager for Application Security in New York. You will lead a team blending security consulting, product-security development and developer tooling while embedding security across the SDLC.

You will shape scalable security work as AI capabilities evolve, stay hands-on with tooling and secure design, and influence senior technical stakeholders across the business. This is a leadership role for a technically hands-on security leader.