Security Engineer (Product)

Join Headway, a mission-driven company focused on increasing access to high-quality mental health care. As a Security Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the security and privacy of our customers, including therapists, patients, and payers. You will partner closely with our product and engineering teams, build security tooling, instill a culture of secure development, and assist in ongoing security operations. This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of product security and make a meaningful impact in the mental health care industry.

About Headway

• Innovation at Scale: You seek opportunities to lead the industry in implementing the latest security and privacy technologies
• Mission driven: You are motivated by Headway’s mission, increasing access to high quality mental health care
• Excited by AI’s potential: You believe AI will fundamentally reshape how product security works, and you want to be at the forefront of making that happen
• Results driven: You care deeply about creating impact and driving results for Headway’s business

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure secure design and development of applications.
• Participate in implementation efforts, conduct security reviews, and help with product design decisions.
• Build agentic security tooling and define application guardrails to promote secure development practices.

Requirements

• Thrive in ambiguity: You love tackling ambiguous problems in a fast-paced environment with an optimistic and energizing attitude
• Strong cross-functional experience: You love partnering with other teams to help both teams achieve their goals
• Have 0 → 1 security experience: You have 2+ years experience in security and/or software engineering roles with a demonstrated history of working on security-related projects or with responsibilities as a security generalist
• Strong technical depth and breadth: You have technical experience with building secure platforms and products at a deep level. You are excited to perform security design and code reviews. You want to understand security systems and improve their efficiency and scalability

Pay

USD 222,800 - 278,500