Senior Security Engineer - Build AI-Driven Security at Scale

Headway; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 219,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage

HSA / FSA

401K

Work-from-Home Stipend

Therapy Reimbursement

16-week parental leave for eligible员工

Job summary

Headway is hiring a Security Engineer to advance product security and privacy for therapists, patients, and payers. As an early team member, you will partner with product and engineering to ensure secure design, review code, and surface vulnerabilities while building AI-native tooling.

The role offers a chance to shape security at scale and protect users in a fast-growing healthcare tech platform. You will work in a hybrid, remote-friendly environment with a mission to improve access to mental

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security and/or software engineering with security-focused projects.
• Strong ability to partner with product and engineering teams.
• Interest in AI-driven security and scalable security tooling.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product and Engineering to design secure features.
• Audit and surface vulnerabilities in current products.
• Build agentic security tooling for scalable security workflows.
• Define application guardrails for secure by default development.
• Support security operations, incident response, and testing.

Skills

Security engineering

Code reviews

Cross-functional collaboration

AI in security

Security design

Tools

Wiz

Python 3

TypeScript

FastAPI

SQLAlchemy

React

Postgres

Redis

AWS

Datadog

PagerDuty

Github

Semgrep

Job description

Headway is hiring a Security Engineer to advance product security and privacy for therapists, patients, and payers. As an early team member, you will partner with product and engineering to ensure secure design, review code, and surface vulnerabilities while building AI-native tooling.

The role offers a chance to shape security at scale and protect users in a fast-growing healthcare tech platform. You will work in a hybrid, remote-friendly environment with a mission to improve access to mental