[Hiring] Senior Security Engineer @Headway
Apr 10, 2025 - Headway is hiring a remote Senior Security Engineer. đź’¸ Salary: $198,000 - $255,000. đź“ŤLocation: USA.
Role Description
The Trust team at Headway is focused on security and privacy for all of Headway’s customers - therapists, patients, and payers (ex: insurance companies and health systems). As an early member on the team, you’ll have the unique opportunity to be the builder and driver of our dedicated, in-house security engineering efforts. In this role, you will be expected to build, extend, and connect critical Headway systems to our security event infrastructure. You will also partner closely with members of Security, IT, and other Headway engineering teams to ensure that our complete production and corporate environments have security telemetry coverage and anomalous event detection.
What you’ll do at Headway:
- Build foundational detection and response infrastructure:
- Build the services and tooling that will enable proactive security risk and anomaly detections
- Develop and improve automated detections:
- Prioritize security event infrastructure and detections processes to enable react in real-time
- Enable analysis of security events from all sources (e.g. cloud infrastructure, SaaS IdP, logs) and identify gaps in coverage:
- Prioritize the highest value signals and potential tradeoffs in priorities of both production and corporate services
- Partner with Trust and Engineering teams to identify risk signals:
- Collaborate with Trust and Engineering teams to recognize and flag potential risk signals during all stages of Headway event’s lifecycle
- Assist in ongoing security operations:
- Be part of the security and privacy team and have responsibilities to assist in incident response, vulnerability management, penetration testing, security reviews, and other operational tasks to ensure that our security program is operating at a world-class level
Qualifications
- 5+ years experience in security and/or software engineering roles on startup or growth stage teams with a demonstrated history of working on detections & response security-related projects
- Technical experience with building secure platforms and products at a deep level
- Strong cross-functional experience, partnering with other teams to help achieve goals
- Ability to tackle ambiguous problems in a fast-paced environment
- Desire to lead the industry in implementing the latest security and privacy technologies
- Motivated by Headway’s mission, increasing access to high quality mental health care
Requirements
- Languages: Python 3, TypeScript
- Libraries: FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, React/Remix, Celery
- Datastores: PostgreSQL, Snowflake
- Infrastructure: AWS (Fargate, ECS, S3, and more), Kafka
- Monitoring: Datadog, PagerDuty
- Version Control: Github
- Vulnerability Management: Snyk, Semgrep
Benefits
- Equity Compensation
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- HSA / FSA
- 401K
- Work-from-Home Stipend
- Therapy Reimbursement
- 16-week parental leave for eligible employees
- Carrot Fertility annual reimbursement and membership
- 13 paid holidays each year as well as a Holiday Break during the week between December 25th and December 31st
- Flexible PTO
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Training and professional development
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Salary
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$198,000 - $255,000
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USA
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Job Type
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Posted
Apr 10, 2025
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| đź“Ť | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: USA |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
