Engineering Manager, Application Security & AI-Driven Tooling

Referment; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Referment is seeking an engineering manager for application security in the United States. The role blends leadership with hands-on security engineering across consulting, tooling and secure product design.

You will shape how AI changes security review and enable scalable security engineering by balancing automation, guidance, and policy, while remaining hands-on with developer-facing tooling and secure design.

Qualifications

• Over a decade in security or software engineering with leadership in app/product security.
• Experience guiding static/dynamic analysis and automated security testing in workflows.
• Strong ability to integrate security into the SDLC with pragmatic trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team delivering application-security consulting and product-security development.
• Collaborate with development teams on secure design, testing, implementation and review.
• Define strategy for scalable, automated app-security work as AI evolves.
• Maintain hands-on involvement with security tooling, automated testing and secure design.
• Align with senior technical stakeholders and partner functions.

Skills

Security leadership

Application security

Product security tooling

AI security

Developer tooling

Static analysis

Dynamic analysis

Secret scanning

Secure SDLC

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's in CS or related field

Tools

Static analysis tools

Dynamic analysis tools

Secret scanning tools

AI security tooling

Job description

Referment is seeking an engineering manager for application security in the United States. The role blends leadership with hands-on security engineering across consulting, tooling and secure product design.

You will shape how AI changes security review and enable scalable security engineering by balancing automation, guidance, and policy, while remaining hands-on with developer-facing tooling and secure design.