Senior Security Engineer for AI-Driven Platform

Headway; New York (NY); On-site; USD 219,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Medical, Dental, Vision

HSAs / FSAs

401K

Work-from-Home stipend

Therapy reimbursement

Parental leave

Job summary

Headway is building a national network to simplify access to mental health care through secure software for therapists, patients, and payers. As a Security Engineer, you will partner with product and engineering to embed security in design, review code, and surface vulnerabilities across our growing codebase.

You will influence security architecture, define guardrails, and help operationalize security processes in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on AI-enabled workflows and scalable

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security and/or software engineering roles with security focus.
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Responsibilities

• Partner with Product and Engineering to ensure new features are secure during design and development.
• Perform security reviews and surface vulnerabilities in Headway products.
• Define and build AI-native product security tooling and guardrails.
• Assist in incident response, vulnerability management, and security operations.

Skills

Security experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Security design & code reviews

AI in security

Ambiguity tolerance

Security program leadership

Tools

Python 3

TypeScript

FastAPI

SQLAlchemy

React

Postgres

Redis

AWS

Datadog

PagerDuty

Github

Snyk

Semgrep

Job description

Headway is building a national network to simplify access to mental health care through secure software for therapists, patients, and payers. As a Security Engineer, you will partner with product and engineering to embed security in design, review code, and surface vulnerabilities across our growing codebase.

You will influence security architecture, define guardrails, and help operationalize security processes in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on AI-enabled workflows and scalable