Your Team and Role: 

Blackstone's Security Engineering (SecEng) team is responsible for securing the firm's software, cloud, AI, and platform ecosystems through scalable controls, developer enablement, and secure-by-design engineering practices. 

We are seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead Blackstone's Application Security program. This individual will be responsible for managing a team of security engineers and driving the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of application and product security capabilities across the firm. 

The role partners closely with Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Security Operations, Data Science, and Technology Leadership teams to ensure security is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle. 

The Application Security team performs security design reviews, technical security reviews, secure code reviews, penetration testing, vulnerability management, software supply chain security, developer security enablement, and AI security assessments. The team also develops and operates internally built security tooling that enables secure software delivery at scale. 

The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth in application security with proven leadership experience managing engineers, driving security programs, and influencing stakeholders across a large enterprise environment. 

Responsibilities: 

• Lead and manage Blackstone's Application Security team, providing technical leadership, mentoring, career development, and performance management. 

• Own the Application Security program roadmap, strategy, and execution across software, cloud-native, and AI-enabled platforms. 

• Oversee Security Design Reviews (SDRs), Technical Security Reviews (TSRs), Source Code Reviews (SCRs), Vulnerability Disclosure, penetration testing activities, and vulnerability remediation programs. 

• Partner with engineering organizations to embed security controls and secure-by-design principles throughout the software development lifecycle. 

• Drive adoption of secure development practices including static analysis, software composition analysis (SCA), SAST, secret scanning, CI/CD security controls, and policy enforcement. 

• Lead software supply chain security initiatives, including dependency management, artifact security, and build pipeline protections. 

• Establish security standards, reference architectures, and guardrails for cloud-native applications, AI-enabled systems, APIs, and platform services. 

• Support security architecture reviews for AWS, Kubernetes, containers, Infrastructure-as-Code, and modern developer platforms. 

• Drive vulnerability reduction programs and risk remediation efforts across application portfolios. 

• Partner with Security Operations, Infrastructure Security, IAM, and Incident Response teams during investigations involving application or software security risks. 

• Evaluate emerging security technologies and lead vendor assessments, proof-of-concepts, and strategic security tooling decisions. 

• Develop metrics, reporting, and KPIs that demonstrate risk reduction and program effectiveness. 

• Present findings, risks, and strategic recommendations to technology leadership, audit stakeholders, and senior management. 

• Stay current on emerging threats, secure development practices, AI security risks, and regulatory requirements. 

Qualifications:  

• 8+ years of experience in application security, product security, software engineering, or security engineering. 

• 3+ years of experience managing security engineers or leading security engineering teams. 

• Deep understanding of application security principles, secure software development lifecycles, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and secure architecture design. 

• Experience conducting security design reviews, code reviews, penetration testing, and security assessments for modern software platforms. 

• Experience securing cloud-native architectures, preferably AWS. 

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, developer platforms, Infrastructure-as-Code, and modern software delivery practices. 

• Experience with application security tooling including SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets scanning, and developer security platforms. 

• Strong communication skills with the experience influencing engineering and business stakeholders. 

• Experience securing AI/ML platforms, LLM-enabled applications, or data-driven systems. 

• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, APIs, and microservice architectures. 

• Experience leading software supply chain security initiatives. 

• A minimum of Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field 

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position.  Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Expected annual base salary range:

Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.

Additional compensation and benefits offered in connection with the role consist of comprehensive health benefits, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, and FSA benefits; paid time off; life insurance; 401(k) plan; and discretionary bonuses. Certain employees may also be eligible for equity and other incentive compensation at Blackstone’s sole discretion.