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Salary: USD 152,000 - 179,000 / annual
Blend is seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead the day-to-day operations of a dedicated security engineering team responsible for protecting the company's product, platform, and software development lifecycle. The role combines people leadership with hands-on technical security work.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing and growing the security engineering team through coaching and mentorship
- Shaping the team's roadmap, hiring strategy, and technical execution
- Orchestrating red teaming capabilities and adversarial testing integration into the development pipeline
- Developing and shipping security frameworks, methods, and tooling across the organization
- Partnering with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to embed security throughout the SDLC
- Defining the company's approach to AI security, including LLM-backed features, agentic systems, and MCP servers
Required qualifications:
- Demonstrated web application penetration testing ability with proficiency in tools like Burp Suite or OWASP ZAP
- Ability to scope and execute security assessments and threat models against modern web stacks
- Strong secure coding capabilities in TypeScript/JavaScript and Go
- Fluency with Linux systems and tooling
- Practical experience with threat modeling using STRIDE methodology
- Familiarity with SAST/DAST tooling and risk reduction strategies
- General management ability and proactive leadership philosophy
- Ability to communicate security findings in ways that mobilize engineering teams
Valued experience:
- Background in financial services or other highly regulated industries
- Comfort making decisions at the intersection of compliance, regulatory obligations, and business mission
- Track record of leveling up both technical and collaborative capabilities in others
Blend's cloud banking platform is used by Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, and over 330 other financial services firms. The platform processes an average of more than $5 billion in loans per day.
