Application Security Manager

We Go Beyond: At Bed Bath & Beyond, we believe that everyone should “Be You!”. Bed Bath & Beyond is a community that upholds a culture of understanding, acceptance, and respect. We believe a person’s individuality, traits, beliefs, and characteristics should be valued and embraced. Living by this ethos is essential to the success of our business. Our goal is to foster a more inclusive environment where every employee visibly demonstrates inclusive behaviors and respect for individuals. ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES: Lead the Application Security team across secure SDLC enablement, vulnerability management, secure code review, security testing, and developer partnership. Oversee application security reviews, including architecture and design review, threat modeling, code review, API security review, and targeted testing. Own application vulnerability governance, including intake, triage, prioritization, SLA management, remediation tracking, validation, exceptions, and leadership reporting. Manage vulnerability disclosure, bug bounty, and external findings processes. Partner with CI/CD, DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, and development teams to integrate security controls into delivery pipelines. Translate security findings into actionable remediation plans and maintain application security requirements and control expectations aligned to internal standards and industry practices. Drive secure design and remediation for commerce platforms, APIs, web applications, mobile-supporting services, cloud workloads. Identify and reduce software supply chain risk, including vulnerable or malicious packages, dependency management gaps, SBOM visibility, repository controls, and dependency confusion risks. Support application-related security incidents and postmortems. Partner with Security Operations on WAF, bot mitigation, cloud security, logging, alerting, and compensating controls when remediation requires staged mitigation or fast-follow delivery. Create metrics and dashboards showing application security posture. Deliver developer enablement through application security training, security champion content, secure coding guidance, and just-in-time coaching. Evaluate application security tooling, vendor capabilities, proof-of-concepts, renewals, and integrations that improve outcomes without unnecessary operational friction. Contribute to security reviews of AI-enabled development workflows, AI-native application components, model integrations, and emerging secure AI-SDLC practices. Perform other job-related duties as assigned. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Hands-on experience with application security assessments, secure code reviews, threat modeling, API testing, security design reviews, and risk-based remediation. Experience leading or materially coordinating application security, secure SDLC, vulnerability governance, DevSecOps, vulnerability disclosure, bug bounty, external testing, or coordinated vulnerability intake processes. Experience with SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets detection, container scanning, cloud security posture, WAF or runtime protection, and vulnerability management tooling. Working knowledge of application architectures, APIs, authentication and authorization patterns, CI/CD pipelines, dependency management, Git-based workflows, and cloud-hosted delivery models. Ability to partner with engineers, architects, platform teams, product leaders, and security teams to drive practical remediation, control adoption, and business-appropriate security decisions. Ability to create clear metrics, dashboards, technical documentation, remediation guidance, project plans, executive summaries, and leadership-ready risk reporting. Proficiency in at least one common development or scripting language such as Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Node.js. Required Skills and Experience: Experience securing retail, ecommerce, payments, loyalty, customer identity, fraud prevention, or high-traffic customer-facing platforms built on modern web, cloud, container, CDN, or edge architectures. Experience with application security and delivery platforms. Experience improving AppSec outcomes through automation, prototypes, AI security practices, secure AI-assisted development, model/component inventory, or developer remediation workflows. IMPACT: The Application Security Manager is a key role in reducing application risk across Bed Bath & Beyond’s technology environment. This position drives the execution of secure SDLC practices, improves remediation discipline, matures developer-facing security capabilities, and ensures application security risks are visible, prioritized, and addressed through defensible governance. The manager grows the capability of the Application Security team while serving as a trusted advisor to engineering and product leaders. SKILLS: Application Security Scanning: SAST, DAST, SCA Containerization and CI/CD Toolsets Public Cloud Security: AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud Web Application Security: Web Application Firewalls (WAF), Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP), Bot Identification and Prevention Languages: Java, python, node.js and/or other popular languages EDUCATION/LICENSING/CERTIFICATIONS: Graduation from an accredited institution with a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science or a related field or any combination of education and/or experience. OSCP SANS/GIAC (GWAPT, GSEC, GCIH, GCIA, etc.) Public Cloud DevOps certifications CEH Relevant coding certifications Base Pay Range: $150,000 - $185,000 per year DOE Who We Are: We’re a passionate group of collaborative problem solvers and creative innovators, working on cutting-edge technology. From building award-winning retail applications (with amazing AR functionality) to creating leading blockchain and machine learning technologies, each of us embodies a unique value and contributes a diverse perspective to the team. What We Offer: 401k (6% match) Flexible Schedules Tuition Reimbursement, Leadership Development Program, & Mentorship Program Employee Resource Groups (LatinX, Black Employee Network, LGBTQIA+, Women’s Network, Women In Tech) And More… *Benefits vary based on position, tenure, location, and employee election Physical Requirements: This position requires you to sit, stand and perform general office functions. You may also be required to lift up to 25 pounds occasionally. Bending, stooping and reaching are also frequently required. Equal Employment Opportunity: It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and associates.  This policy includes our commitment to ensure that all employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability, pregnancy, veteran status (including Vietnam era veterans), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other non-job-related characteristic protected by law. Back to Bed Bath & Beyond Careers Bed Bath & Beyond is committed to an inclusive, outcome-driven, and empowering work environment. Join a team that encourages you to be authentically you. Bed, Bath & Beyond is a tech-driven online retailer located near Salt Lake City in the shadow of the Wasatch Mountains. Though we began in 1999 as Overstock, our brand has evolved from a liquidation startup to a billion-dollar online home retailer. In 2023 Overstock acquired the Bed Bath & Beyond branding and we've been helping customers from both companies create their dream homes ever since. In 2025 the company acquired the buybuyBaby branding bringing the two iconic brands back together.