Candidhealth

Principal Security Engineer

San Francisco (CA), Denver (CO), New York (NY) · Principal

Sponsorship not specified$240k-$310kDetected 44 days ago

Distributed SystemsCybersecurityPenetration TestingComplianceExcelHIPAALeadershipCollaboration

About the role

You will be the foundational technical pillar for security at Candid Health.
This is a role for a heavy-hitting technical leader who wants to set the security blueprint for a fast-growing health-tech platform.

Drive Strategy at the Leadership Level: Act as the subject matter expert who translates complex technical risks into business priorities.
You will partner with executive leadership to stack-rank risks and embed security directly into Candid's overarching business strategy.
Evangelize a "Secure-by-Design" Culture: Level up our 200+ employees. Through threat modeling, secure coding practices, and cross-functional collaboration, you will embed a security-first mindset across every team from engineering to legal.
Own Vulnerability & Vendor Deep Dives: Oversee third-party penetration testing, dissect vendor architectures before integration, and ensure our production environments undergo continuous automated and manual scrutiny.
We collectively prioritize building a diverse and inclusive workspace

A Practitioner, Not Just a Theorist: You have driven security outcomes at scale.
You know how to balance pragmatism with bulletproof defense-in-depth, and you excel at navigating the technical trade-offs required in a fast-moving engineering organization.
A Force Multiplier: You know how to code, architect, and influence.
You are equally comfortable writing secure infrastructure-as-code, threat-modeling a distributed system, or standing in front of an enterprise customer's CISO to defend Candid's security posture.
This is what you can expect of your teammates at Candid (in no particular order):
You have 10+ years of experience in security engineering, with a proven track record of architecting secure systems across complex technical surface areas in both startup and scaled enterprise environments.
You have driven security outcomes at scale.

The estimated starting annual salary range for this position is $240,000 - $310,000 USD.
The listed range is a guideline from Pave https://www.pave.com/ data, and the actual base salary may be modified based on factors including job-related skills, experience/qualifications, interview performance, market data, etc.
Total compensation for this position may also include equity, sales incentives (for sales roles), and employee benefits.
Given Candid Health's funding and size, we heavily value the potential upside from equity in our compensation package.

Design the Enterprise-Grade Roadmap: Lead the technical transition from a foundational security posture to a best-in-class, resilient enterprise architecture capable of defending complex healthcare data workflows.
Further note that Candid Health has minimal hierarchy and titles, but has broad ranges of experience represented within roles.

Level up our 200+ employees.
Through threat modeling, secure coding practices, and cross-functional collaboration, you will embed a security-first mindset across every team from engineering to legal.
You will ensure compliance is a living, automated process built into our code and infra, and you'll regularly serve as the expert technical voice in the room with our largest enterprise customers.
We put our customers first
We are candid, kind, and committed
We strive to be the most prepared person in the room
We are truth seekers

This listing is sourced directly from Candidhealth's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.