Engineering Manager, AI-Driven Application Security

Referment; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment is seeking an Engineering Manager for application security, combining team leadership with hands-on security engineering across consulting, developer tooling and secure product design.

You will shape how the function creates leverage—balancing automation, consultation and policy—embedding security into development without becoming a bottleneck. A core remit is shaping how AI changes security reviews and enables scalable security engineering.

Qualifications

• Ten+ years in security or software engineering, with leadership in app security or developer-security tooling.
• Experience guiding static analysis, dynamic analysis, secret scanning, or automated security testing within developer workflows.
• Sound judgement about integrating security into the software-development lifecycle.
• Ability to influence senior technical stakeholders and make pragmatic trade-offs.
• Working knowledge of AI security, including agentic-application risks and agentic security tooling.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Leadership

Secure design

Security tooling

Strategy

Tools

Static analysis

Dynamic analysis

Secret scanning

Automated security testing

Job description

Referment is seeking an Engineering Manager for application security, combining team leadership with hands-on security engineering across consulting, developer tooling and secure product design.

You will shape how the function creates leverage—balancing automation, consultation and policy—embedding security into development without becoming a bottleneck. A core remit is shaping how AI changes security reviews and enables scalable security engineering.