Senior Security Engineer (Product)

Headway

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 219,000 - 273,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Health, dental, vision insurance

HSA / FSA

401K

Work-from-Home Stipend

Therapy Reimbursement

13 paid holidays

Flexible PTO

EAP

Training and professional development

Job summary

Headway is building a security-first platform to protect therapists, patients, and payers. As an early member of the Security team, you will drive in-house product and application security engineering efforts, partnering with product and engineering to ensure secure design and implementation.

You will contribute to security operations, vulnerability management, and code reviews while fostering a culture of secure development across engineering, including exploring AI-native security tooling.

Qualifications

5+ years of security and/or software engineering experience with security responsibilities.

Responsibilities

Partner with Product and Engineering to design and implement secure features.

Skills

Security experience

Software engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Security design reviews

AI/ML in security

Ambiguity tolerance

Innovative security tech

Results driven

Tools

Wiz

Python 3

TypeScript

FastAPI

SQLAlchemy

React

Postgres

Redis

AWS

Spark

Kafka

Datadog

PagerDuty

Github

Semgrep

Job description

1 in 4 people in the US have a treatable mental health condition, but most providers don't accept insurance, making therapy too expensive for most people. Headway’s mission is to fix this by building a new mental healthcare system everyone can access. We started by solving the biggest barrier to care: insurance. The admin work - credentialing, claims, payment reconciliation - is a nightmare. We've automated that.

But we're going further. Over 75,000 providers across all 50 states run their practice on our software, serving over 1 million patients. We are building the best tools for therapists to run their entire practice, reimagining the experience of finding a therapist, and investing in the platform foundations to enable this at scale. We aren't just a billing layer; we are becoming the platform where care actually happens.

We're a Series D company with $325M+ in funding (a16z, Accel, Spark Capital, etc.), looking for exceptional people to help us achieve this mission. We want your time here to be the most meaningful experience of your career. Join us, and help change mental healthcare for the better.

Headway’s mission is a big one – to build a new mental health care system everyone can access. We’ve built technology that helps people find great therapists with the first software-enabled national network of providers accepting insurance.

1 in 4 people in the US have a treatable mental health condition, but the majority of providers don’t accept insurance, making therapy too expensive for most people. Headway is building a new mental healthcare system that everyone can access by making it easy for therapists to accept insurance and scale their practice.

Headway was founded in 2019. Since then, we’ve grown into a diverse, national network of over 60,000 mental healthcare providers across all 50 states who run their practice on our software and have served over 1 million patients. We’re a Series D company with over $325m in funding from a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), Accel, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Spark Capital, Thrive Capital, Forerunner Ventures and Health Care Service Corporation.

We want your time here to be the most meaningful experience of your career.

About The Role

The Security team at Headway is focused on security and privacy for all of Headway’s customers - therapists, patients, and payers (ex: insurance companies and health systems). As an early member on the team, you’ll have the unique opportunity to be the builder and driver of our dedicated, in-house product and application security engineering efforts. In this role, you will partner closely with our product and engineering teams to ensure that our application is designed and developed securely so that we can maintain and grow customers’ trust in Headway.

What You’ll Do At Headway

Partner with Product and Engineering: Headway has many new product launches on the horizon that will transform the industry and have a rich data component. You will be a partner at both the design and development stage to ensure that we implement new features securely, including (but not limited to):
- Participating in the implementation efforts
- Doing security reviews
- Helping with product design decisions
- Auditing and surfacing vulnerabilities in our current products
Build Agentic Security Tooling: Move beyond rules-based automation to agentic workflows that address potential code problems at scale across our rapidly growing codebase. You'll help define what AI-native product security looks like at Headway.
Make the safe way, the easy way: Work on defining and building application guardrails so that developers can build securely by default. You also will work to instill a culture of secure development across engineering.
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.

Tools We Use

Cloud Security: Wiz
Languages: Python 3, TypeScript
Libraries: FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, React
Datastores: Postgres, Redis
Infrastructure: AWS (Fargate, ECS, S3, and more), Spark and Kafka
Monitoring: Datadog, PagerDuty
Version Control: Github
Vulnerability Management: Semgrep

You’ll be great for this role if you have:

Have 0 → 1 security experience: You have 5+ 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 cross-functional experience: You love partnering with other teams to help both teams achieve their goals.
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.
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.
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.

Our interview process

Initial screen: You’ll connect with someone in recruiting so you can learn more about the team, Headway’s mission and exciting growth, and we can get a better idea of your background.
First round: You'll meet with a member of our Security Engineering team for introductions and an architecture interview. Conducted similarly to a System Design interview, we’ll learn more about your knowledge of the role of security in engineering systems and web architecture.
Final rounds: You’ll meet several more team members for technical and non-technical interviews and leave with a fuller picture of what it’s like to work at Headway.
References and the Offer: Our favorite part of the process! We'll send over all of the details, including specifics on employee equity, and congratulatory messages from excited future team members!

Compensation & Benefits

The expected base pay range for this position is $218,500 - $273,125, based on a variety of factors including qualifications, experience, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for an equity grant, depending on the position and level. We are committed to offering a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package, including robust health and wellness benefits, retirement savings, and meaningful ownership opportunities through equity. Compensation decisions are made holistically, ensuring fairness and alignment with market benchmarks while recognizing individual contributions and potential.

Benefits offered include:
- 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