Senior Manager, Application Vulnerability Validation & Verification - USDS (Cybersecurity)

Location: San Jose, United States; fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week

Salary: $199,800–$441,600 annually, with possible discretionary bonuses, incentives, and restricted stock units.

Company

hirify.global operates a data privacy and cybersecurity program focused on protecting U.S. user data, applications, algorithms, and the U.S. content ecosystem.

What you will do

• Build, lead, hire, mentor, and technically direct an Application Security engineering team.
• Develop the automation strategy for application vulnerability validation, including scanner API integrations, custom tooling, and LLM-assisted triage.
• Oversee deep technical verification across web, iOS, Android, and API endpoints to confirm real production exploitability.
• Analyze attack paths, vulnerability chaining, and blast radius across a large software supply chain.
• Partner with U.S. and global engineering teams to implement systemic security mitigations.
• Provide actionable secure-coding and architectural guidance as a principal internal consultant.

Requirements

• Leadership experience in Application Security, Product Security, or Software Security Engineering, typically including 5 years of domain experience and formal team management.
• Strong software development and scripting skills in Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript.
• Deep experience with enterprise SAST, DAST, and SCA platforms such as Checkmarx, Veracode, Burp Suite Enterprise, Snyk, or GitHub Advanced Security.
• Strong understanding of microservices, service mesh, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, Docker, and API gateways.
• Ability to coordinate remediation across large distributed engineering organizations and communicate objective threat evidence.

Nice to have

• Advanced security certifications such as OSWE, OSWA, GWE, CASE, or CSSLP.
• Experience with formal threat-modeling frameworks for complex features.

Culture & Benefits

• On-site collaboration focused on speed, alignment, real-time decision-making, team development, and integrated execution.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance from day one.
• 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and life insurance.
• Wellbeing benefits, 10 paid holidays, 10 paid sick days, and 17 days of paid personal time.
• Inclusive workplace with reasonable accommodation support during recruitment.