# Engineering Manager, Application Security at Qualia

- Company: Qualia
- What the company does: Qualia is the leading digital real estate closing platform. Qualia. Backed by Menlo.
- Company website: https://www.qualia.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Austin, TX
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-05-06
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/qualia/jobs/7902013
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/qualia-engineering-manager-application-security/

## About the role

We are hiring an entrepreneurial Engineering Manager to lead Qualia's Application Security team. This is a builder's role. You won't just run a team - you'll redesign how a modern AppSec function operates when AI can do the first pass on nearly everything we used to do by hand.

## What they're looking for

- Lead and grow the Application Security team - coaching senior AppSec engineers, setting goals, and owning delivery against the security roadmap
- Build the automated pen-testing program. Stand up pipelines that run continuous, AI-assisted offensive testing against our services, APIs, and web properties - and turn the output into a triaged, actionable queue
- Scale triage with AI. Design the workflows and tooling that let the team handle 10x the volume of findings (bug bounty, scanner output, customer reports) without 10x the headcount
- Run red-teaming exercises. Drive recurring red team engagements - both internal exercises and coordinated vendor work - and close the loop into detection, response, and product hardening
- Own the AppSec vision. Partner with the leadership team to set multi-quarter strategy across anomaly detection, threat modeling, and AI-augmented defense
- Fight fires when they happen. Lead incident response from the application security side, and be the person engineering trusts to make the call in the room

Tags: Engineering - Core