Engineering Manager, Application Security & AI Enablement

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

Job summary

Referment is seeking an engineering manager for application security to lead a team and contribute hands-on security engineering across consulting, tooling and secure product design. This role sits within a global investment and technology environment in New York, balancing strategy with practical delivery.

You will shape how AI changes security review, automate processes, and partner with developers while influencing senior stakeholders in a fast-moving, technology-driven setting.

Qualifications

• Ten+ years in security or software engineering with leadership in app/product security.
• Experience guiding static/dynamic analysis and automated security testing in dev workflows.
• Sound judgement for integrating security into SDLC.
• Ability to influence senior technical stakeholders and balance trade-offs.
• Knowledge of AI security, agentic risks and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Manage 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 design.
• Build alignment with senior technical stakeholders and partner functions.

Skills

Team leadership

Application security

Developer tooling

Security consulting

Automation

AI security tooling

Tools

Static analysis tooling

Dynamic analysis tooling

Secret scanning tooling

AI security tooling

Job description

Referment is seeking an engineering manager for application security to lead a team and contribute hands-on security engineering across consulting, tooling and secure product design. This role sits within a global investment and technology environment in New York, balancing strategy with practical delivery.

You will shape how AI changes security review, automate processes, and partner with developers while influencing senior stakeholders in a fast-moving, technology-driven setting.