Information Security Engineer

Everly Health; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible work hours

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Everlywell, based in Austin, Texas, is looking for a Security Engineer to drive security detection and incident response processes. You will research emerging threats, develop incident response playbooks, and ensure robust security across our cloud infrastructure.

Candidates should have a degree in Computer Science or a related field, with 5+ years of cloud security experience, and proficiency in security tools. Join us to enhance our security posture in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Cloud security (AWS, Azure, etc.).
• Understanding of authentication protocols (OAuth, SSO/SAML).
• Experience with secure SDLC best practices.

Responsibilities

• Detect and respond to security incidents.
• Design and implement security controls across cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate with teams on secure cloud development practices.

Skills

Threat detection

Incident response

Cloud security

DevOps

Programming (Python, Ruby)

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

SIEM

Endpoint Detection and Response

Threat Intelligence platforms

Job description

Everlywell is a digital health company pioneering the next generation of biomarker intelligence—combining AI-powered technology with human insight to deliver personalized, actionable health answers. We transform complex biomarker data into life-changing insights—seamlessly integrating advanced diagnostics, virtual care, and patient engagement to reshape how and where health happens.

Over the past decade, Everlywell has delivered close to 1 billion personalized health insights, transforming care for 60 million people and powering hundreds of enterprise partners. In 2024 alone, an estimated 1 in 86 U.S. households received an Everlywell test, solidifying our spot as the #1 at-home testing brand in the country. And we’re just getting started. Fueled by AI and built for scale, we’re breaking down barriers, closing care gaps, and unlocking a more connected healthcare experience that is smarter, faster, and more personalized.

As a member of the security team at Everlywell, you will have the opportunity to shape the security detection, operations and incident response processes. You will research and discover the latest threats on product, cloud infrastructure, workloads, containers and develop methods, queries, and dashboards to detect and visualize events of interest. You will develop incident response playbooks to allow quick resolution of identified security events.You’ll work across many teams including infrastructure, engineering, product, compliance, and across multiple streams. We’re looking for someone that has deep technical expertise in threat detection, incident root cause analysis, querying and alerting using SIEM systems, automation, AWS cloud, and the experience to join a fast‑paced, growing team tackling challenging problems at scale.

What You’ll Do:

• Threat Detection: It’s important to detect security incidents before they cause material damage to the business. You will detect attacks and prioritize, analyze and drive alerts to resolution. In the event an alert is identified as a security incident, you will kick off
• Incident ResponseIncident Response: You will rapidly scope, contain and eradicate threats, minimizing financial, legal, business and content losses. Services include but are not limited to root‑cause analysis, memory and disk forensics, reverse engineering, network containment, threat eradication and postmortems. You will also develop and refine processes, plans and procedures and partner closely with Legal, Comms and other stakeholders across the business.
• Design and carry out security incident preparedness activities, such as compromise assessments and tabletop exercises, and conduct training and awareness sessions for relevant staff.
• Deploy and support tools to collect and correlate security telemetry. Tooling includes Network Detection and Response, SIEM, Endpoint Detection and Response, Threat Intelligence platforms, and Security Orchestration Automation and Response tools.
• Design and implement security controls across cloud, network, and application layers.
• Drive the adoption of best practices for security through the SDLC
• Build automated guardrails to enhance the security of our applications
• Automate vulnerability management, secrets management, and patching.
• AI first mindset for building out Security Automations and Threat Detection
• Educate the engineering team on defensive coding
• Support HIPAA, HITRUST, and SOC2 compliance efforts.
• Work with Privacy and Compliance to document and monitor our security practices.
• Partner with product engineering teams on secure cloud development practices and build security automation into CI/CD pipelines
• Improve vulnerability management processes and security control maintenanceCollaborate with senior leaders to assess near‑term and long‑term security needs.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to assess near‑term and long‑term security needs.

Who You Are:

• Naturally curious and interested in security and privacy
• Comfortable engaging with departments outside of engineering to heighten security
• Experience with vulnerabilities, exploits, and their defenses
• Can balance articulating the big picture and details depending on the audience
• Eager and excited to evangelize security
• Knowledge of Cybersecurity Frameworks: HITRUST, NIST, ISO
• Collaborates well with cross functional team members: product, compliance, privacy, and engineering in a fast paced, regularly changing environment
• Is most comfortable when there’s too much to do and can juggle a variety of tasks
• Everyone knows that when you take on a task whether it’s huge and scary or tiny and boring, you’re going to see it through

What You’ve Done

• BS (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

• 5+ years of Experience with Cloud security (AWS, Azure, etc.)

• Experience with secure SDLC best practices

• Understanding of authentication protocols and frameworks (OAuth, SSO/SAML, OpenID, etc.)

• DevOps and configuration management with tools like Terraform, Ansible, etc.

• Conversant with REST and/or GraphQL

• Experience with Zero-Trust architectures.

• Familiarity with common security tools: SIEM, EDR, vulnerability scanning, and secrets management.

• Juggled a variety of different responsibilities

• Influenced or inspired cross functional teams to take action around security

• Advanced programming experience (Ruby, Python, Golang, Bash, etc)

• At least one of the following or equivalent certifications:

• Security+ (CompTIA)
• Network+ (CompTIA)
• Microsoft Security Compliance and Identity Fundamentals (SC-900)
• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
• AWS Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Security Specialty
• ISSP