Senior Security Engineer

Summary

Join Headway's Trust team as a Senior Security Engineer and play a key role in building and enhancing our security infrastructure. You will design, develop, and implement security detection and response systems, collaborating with engineering and other teams. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on the security and privacy of our customers. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of experience in security or software engineering, strong technical skills, and excellent cross-functional collaboration abilities. Headway offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a mission-driven work environment. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.

Requirements

• Have 0 → 1 security experience: You have 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
• Strong technical depth and breadth: You have technical experience with building secure platforms and products at a deep level. You want to understand security systems and improve their efficiency and scalability
• Strong cross-functional experience: You love partnering with other teams to help both teams achieve their goals
• Thrive in ambiguity: You love tackling ambiguous problems in a fast-paced environment with an optimistic and energizing attitude
• Innovation at Scale : You seek opportunities to lead the industry in implementing the latest security and privacy technologies
• Results driven: You care deeply about creating impact and driving results for Headway’s business
• Mission driven: You are motivated by Headway’s mission, increasing access to high quality mental health care

Responsibilities

• 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: 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

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