Headway

Headway

Senior Security Engineer (Product)

New York, NY · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$219k-$273kDetected 13 days ago
TypeScriptPythonReactFastAPIGitPostgreSQLRedisAWSDatadogKafkaSparkCybersecurityPenetration TestingSOC OperationsIncident ResponseAuditingCommunication

About the role

  • The Security 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 product and application security engineering efforts.
  • The Security team at Headway is focused on security and privacy for all of

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Product and Engineering: Headway has many new product launches on the horizon that will transform the industry and have a rich data component.
  • You will be a partner at both the design and development stage to ensure that we implement new features securely, including (but not limited to):
  • Helping with product design decisions
  • Build Agentic Security Tooling: Move beyond rules-based automation to agentic workflows that address potential code problems at scale across our rapidly growing codebase. You'll help define what AI-native product security looks like at Headway.
  • Make the safe way, the easy way: Work on defining and building application guardrails so that developers can build securely by default. You also will work to instill a culture of secure development across engineering.

Requirements

  • You have technical experience with building secure platforms and products at a deep level.

Compensation

  • The expected base pay range for this position is $218,500 - $273,125, based on a variety of factors including qualifications, experience, and geographic location.
  • In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for an equity grant, depending on the position and level.
  • Compensation decisions are made holistically, ensuring fairness and alignment with market benchmarks while recognizing individual contributions and potential.
  • Equity compensation
  • Carrot Fertility annual reimbursement and membership

Benefits

  • Equity compensation
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
  • 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
  • In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for an equity grant, depending on the position and level.

Company info

  • Assist in ongoing security operations: You will 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.
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