Senior Manager, Security Engineering

McKinstry; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

McKinstry is seeking a Senior Manager, Security Engineering to lead a team responsible for secure-by-design across applications, networks, and AI systems. You’ll balance hands-on technical depth with people leadership, shaping strategy and governance to reduce risk and enable innovation.

In this senior role, you’ll partner with engineering and security executives to embed security into architecture decisions, review designs, and steward a security engineering program that scales with McKinstry’s

Qualifications

• Experience leading security engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of secure software design and architecture.
• Ability to translate security strategy into practical programs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and govern McKinstry's security engineering capabilities across apps and networks.
• Lead a team including AI Security Engineer and embed security into designs.
• Partner with executives to drive secure-by-design initiatives.

Skills

Security engineering

People leadership

Cloud security

Job description

Build the future, spark innovation and align your career with purpose.

McKinstry is innovating the waste and climate harm out of the built environment and creating lasting impact. Together, we’re building a thriving planet.

Buildings are a leading contributor to the climate crisis, generating nearly 40% of total global energy-related carbon emissions. We’re making a lasting impact on our industry and within our communities by addressing the climate, affordability and equity crises through:

• renewables and energy services
• engineering and design
• construction and facility services

To get where we’re going, we need big thinkers, problem solvers and collaborative mindsets. Does that sound like you?

The Opportunity with McKinstry

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Security Engineering to serve as McKinstry’s senior owner of security engineering — a role that sits at the intersection of hands‑on technical depth and forward‑looking people leadership. This is a critical, senior‑level position responsible for designing, building, and governing McKinstry’s security engineering capabilities across application security, security architecture, network security, and the rapidly evolving domain of AI security.

This role owns the question “is security built in?” While the CISO sets vision and engages at the board and executive level, the Senior Manager, Security Engineering ensures McKinstry’s security is embedded by design: applications are built securely from the start, architecture decisions are reviewed and signed off with a security lens, network infrastructure is hardened and consistently governed, and AI‑driven systems are assessed for the unique risks they introduce.

This role manages and develops a Security Engineering team that includes a dedicated AI Security Engineer — and actively represents the security engineering function on McKinstry