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# Engineering Manager, Information Security at Qualia

- **Company:** Qualia
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Posted:** 2026-07-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/qualia/jobs/8092181

## Job description

At Qualia, we've 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.

## WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON

As the Information Security Engineering Manager, you'll lead the team that owns that mission. This is a player/coach role reporting to the Head of Information Security: you'll manage a team of talented security engineers—setting direction, unblocking their work, and growing their careers—while 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 doesn't rely on assumptions—we identify where they've 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 team's impact faster than its headcount. That means making automation and AI-assisted workflows the default across detection, triage, investigation, and response—so every engineer covers more surface area with higher signal—while preserving the pragmatic, business-first judgment that protects the company without standing in the way of its growth.

Security at Qualia isn't siloed—it touches every team and every product. You'll be as comfortable digging into an alert with an engineer as you are briefing an executive on risk, and you'll represent the team to engineering leaders, auditors, and customers alike. A growth mindset isn't optional here; as the threats we face become more numerous and sophisticated, so must we.

## RESPONSIBILITIES

- Lead and grow the Information Security team—coaching 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 incidents—coordinating 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 concerns—including suspected fraud and account compromise—triaging 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 Qualia's cloud and corporate security posture—reviewing 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 technology—including AI
- Support Qualia's compliance programs (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001) as a pragmatic control owner—strong 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

YOUR BACKGROUND THAT LIKELY MAKES YOU A MATCH

- 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 code—and 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 you'd 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 briefing—each pitched to its audience
- Experience navigating the security implications of emerging technologies—including AI and large language models—as 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
- Bachelor's 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, we're open to exploring remote possibilities for qualified candidates. We have other physical office locations in San Francisco, California, and Concord, New Hampshire.

## WHY QUALIA

Qualia is made up of incredibly bright, mission-driven coworkers who are passionate about using technology to solve real-world problems---and we're growing quickly. In order to continue building an engaging and dynamic organization, we're 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 workplace. In 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.

By submitting your application, you acknowledge and agree to the collection, processing, and use of your personal information as described in our [Employee Data Privacy Notice](https://www.qualia.com/qualia-employee-data-privacy-notice/).

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## About Qualia

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: A digital real estate closing platform and settlement software that streamlines home buying and selling for title, escrow, mortgage, and real estate professionals.
- **Entity Type**: Private
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with major offices in Austin, TX and Concord, NH)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Real estate technology (title & escrow software, closing management)
- **Target customers**: B2B – title & escrow agents, lenders, real estate agents, title insurers, closing service providers, and consumers
- **Mission or purpose**: “Toward Healthy Home Ownership” – using technology to restore healthy homeownership and make home closings transparent and efficient.

## Products & Services
- **[Qualia Clear](https://www.qualia.com/)**: Automated title & escrow workflow platform that can handle 80% of work, shifting teams from manual tasks to expert review.
- **[Enterprise Closing System](https://www.qualia.com/)**: Operations management at scale for large title and escrow firms, including accounting, reporting, and vendor management.
- **[Closing Services Provider Platform](https://www.qualia.com/)**: Vendor operations and discovery for closing services providers.
- **[Title Insurer Platform](https://www.qualia.com/)**: Agency management and underwriter operations for title insurers.
- **[Title Production Software](https://www.qualia.com/)**: Custom on-premises solutions for title production.
- **[Integrations Ecosystem](https://www.qualia.com/)**: Wide range of product and service integrations that convert partners’ complex workflows into a single, simple experience.
- **Secure Closing Portal** and **Wire Fraud Detection**: Consumer-facing tools to enhance the closing experience and protect transaction details.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Over 1 million title, escrow, mortgage, and real estate professionals use Qualia (claimed by the company); users report a 75% reduction in workload.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not publicly available (company is private)
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring across multiple departments (23 open positions as of the search date); expansion of product capabilities (Qualia Clear 2.0); multi-office presence (Austin, San Francisco, Concord); SOC 2 certified.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Shared system of record**: Qualia acts as the single shared infrastructure connecting all closing participants, reducing friction and errors.
- **Automation depth**: Qualia Clear automates 80% of title & escrow work, moving teams from manual processing to expert review.
- **Extensive integrations**: A robust integrations ecosystem that adapts to partners’ existing workflows.
- **Security & compliance**: SOC 2 certification and rigorous independent audits build trust with enterprise customers.
- **Market adoption**: Used by over a million professionals across all 50 states, indicating strong network effects.

## Strategic Focus
- **Digital transformation of home closings**: Moving the current paper-based, chaotic process to a seamless, modern digital transaction.
- **Restoring healthy homeownership**: Addressing the complexity and stress of home buying through transparency and efficiency.
- **Product innovation**: Continual development of automated workflows (Qualia Clear 2.0) and an expanding integrations marketplace.
- **Enterprise readiness**: Scaling platform capabilities to serve large title insurers, lenders, and multi-location operations.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven work**: “Fundamentally changing how homes are bought and sold in the U.S.” – employees can create meaningful change in a complex industry.
- **Flexible work environment**: Office locations in Austin, San Francisco, and Concord, with strong support for remote work – “We’ll provide you with the resources and support you need to do great work comfortably and effectively, no matter where you’re located.”
- **Benefits & perks**: Competitive salary and equity, comprehensive medical/dental/vision, 401k, parental leave, commuter benefits, flexible time off, unlimited learning (in‑house and external courses), daily catered lunches (in-office), stocked kitchens, and customized workstations.
- **Culture**: Collaborative and curious team that values “leaders” – bringing people together, customer obsession, bias to action, and continuous learning. Described as “diverse team of experts from across tech, finance, and real estate.”
- **Open roles (as of search date)**: Engineering, Customer Success, Product, Design, Finance, Security, and more – many positions are remote or hybrid in Austin / SF.

## Sources
1. [qualia.com](https://www.qualia.com/) – Homepage (product overview, security, user claims)
2. [qualia.com/about-us](https://www.qualia.com/about-us/) – About page (mission, culture, community)
3. [qualia.com/jobs](https://www.qualia.com/jobs/) – Careers page (open positions, benefits, office locations)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/qualia](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/qualia) – Greenhouse jobs board (specific role listings)

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