Senior Security Engineer (Product)
AI summary of the role
Headway is hiring a Senior Security Engineer to join the Trust team, focusing on product and application security for a mental healthcare platform.
What you’ll do
- Partner with Product and Engineering to ensure secure implementation of new features through security reviews, design decisions, and vulnerability auditing.
- Develop and improve automated tooling to scale application security capabilities and detect code problems pre- and post-deployment.
- Define and build application guardrails so developers can build securely by default and foster a culture of secure development.
- Assist in security operations including incident response, vulnerability management, penetration testing, and security reviews.
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years experience in security and/or software engineering with a demonstrated history of security-related projects or as a security generalist.
- Strong cross-functional experience partnering with other teams.
- Technical depth in building secure platforms and products, with experience in security design and code reviews.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity and tackle problems in a fast-paced environment.
Technologies
Python 3 · TypeScript · FastAPI · SQLAlchemy · React · Postgres · Redis · AWS · Snyk · Semgrep
About Headway
Headway helps therapists and psychiatrists accept insurance, run their practices, and receive referrals while helping patients and health plans access in-network mental healthcare faster.
Series D · 500–1000 people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
mental healthcare providers across all 50 states who run their practice on our software and have served over 1 million patients. We’re a Series D company with over $325m in funding from a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), Accel, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Spark Capital, Thrive Capital, Forerunner Ventures and Health Care Service Corporation. We want your time here to be the most meaningful experience of your career. Join us, and help change mental healthcare for the better. About the role 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 product and application security engineering efforts. In this role, you will partner closely with our product
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