Engineering Manager, Information Security

At Qualia weve built the leading B2B real estate technology that transforms the home buying and selling experience into a simple secure and enjoyable process. Our SMB and Enterprise products bring together users from across the real estate ecosystem---homebuyers and sellers lenders title and escrow agents and real estate agents---onto a single shared digital closing platform providing greater clarity and transparency to real estate transactions. Today through our business customers across the country millions of consumers use Qualia to close on homes every year.

As the Information Security Engineering Manager youll lead the team that owns that mission. This is a player/coach role reporting to the Head of Information Security: youll manage a team of talented security engineerssetting direction unblocking their work and growing their careerswhile staying hands-on enough to review a detection step into an incident or ship an automation yourself.

Because purchasing a home is often the largest financial transaction of our users lives the stakes for getting security right are real. Our Information Security team doesnt rely on assumptionswe identify where theyve been made assess the risk and communicate it clearly to the business. We define what normal looks like across our products customers employees and assets and we own the detection and response when something deviates from that baseline.

Your mandate is to scale the teams impact faster than its headcount. That means making automation and AI-assisted workflows the default across detection triage investigation and responseso every engineer covers more surface area with higher signalwhile preserving the pragmatic business-first judgment that protects the company without standing in the way of its growth.

Security at Qualia isnt siloedit touches every team and every product. Youll be as comfortable digging into an alert with an engineer as you are briefing an executive on risk and youll represent the team to engineering leaders auditors and customers alike. A growth mindset isnt optional here; as the threats we face become more numerous and sophisticated so must we.

• Lead and grow the Information Security teamcoaching security engineers setting goals and priorities and owning delivery against the security roadmap
• Own detection and response end-to-end: define what normal looks like across our products customers employees and assets; build and tune detection logic; and drive down the time it takes to spot and stop what deviates from that baseline
• Serve as incident commander for security incidentscoordinating investigation and containment across teams communicating clearly under pressure and running post-incident reviews that feed back into detections and hardening
• Own the escalation path for customer-reported security concernsincluding suspected fraud and account compromisetriaging issues communicating clearly with affected parties and driving them to resolution
• Scale the team through automation and AI: build AI-assisted triage investigation and response workflows that let the team handle growing volume and complexity without growing linearly
• Strengthen Qualias cloud and corporate security posturereviewing configurations monitoring for drift and raising the bar across identity endpoints and SaaS
• Partner across Application Security IT Engineering Legal and Compliance to embed security into how Qualia builds products and adopts new technologyincluding AI
• Support Qualias compliance programs (e.g. SOC 2 ISO 27001) as a pragmatic control ownerstrong evidence and clean audits without letting checkbox thinking crowd out real risk reduction
• Hire and mentor: recruit strong security engineers and build a team culture where people are pushed and supported in equal measure

• 5 years of professional information security experience with both a strong defensive foundation and familiarity with offensive techniques and 2 years managing or formally leading a security engineering or security operations team
• Hands-on depth across security operations: detection engineering SIEM and log monitoring platforms and incident response plus at least one adjacent domain (cloud security identity and access management or vulnerability management)
• The ability to write codeand a track record of shipping automation that changed how a team worked ideally including meaningful use of LLMs or agents in a security workflow
• A practical risk-based approach to security: you care whether the risk actually went down and youd rather find a safe path to yes than reflexively say no
• Strong written communication: you can write the runbook the post-mortem the customer-facing incident summary and the executive briefingeach pitched to its audience
• Experience navigating the security implications of emerging technologiesincluding AI and large language modelsas the company evaluates and adopts new tools
• Familiarity with identity and access management concepts (e.g. SSO MFA role-based access controls) and core IT domains including endpoint management networking and cloud infrastructure
• Bachelors degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience
• Nice to have
• Experience owning security controls in audited environments (e.g. SOC 2 ISO 27001 or GLBA-regulated businesses)
• Information security certifications (e.g. CISSP GIAC or similar)
• Offensive security experience (penetration testing red teaming) or familiarity with the evolving landscape of AI-enabled offense and defense
• Experience in fintech real estate technology or another regulated high-liability domain

While this role is based in Austin Texas were open to exploring remote possibilities for qualified candidates. We have other physical office locations in San Francisco California and Concord New Hampshire.

Qualia is made up of incredibly bright mission-driven coworkers who are passionate about using technology to solve real-world problems---and were growing order to continue building an engaging and dynamic organization were committed to giving everyone the support they need to do great work.

Our benefits package is designed to allow our team members to be their best selves both in and out of the addition to comprehensive health plans a 401k program and commuter benefits we prioritize family and personal well-being through professional development parental leave and a flexible time off policy. Qualia offers a robust online onboarding program to train new hires biweekly all hands meetings and a variety of internal virtual events to keep employees connected.

We believe diverse perspectives and backgrounds are critical to building great technology and our goal is to cultivate an environment where people feel equally valued and respected. Qualia is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds regardless of race color ancestry religion gender identity or expression sexual orientation marital status age citizenship socioeconomic status disability or veteran status.

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