Staff Engineer, Security

Grow Therapy; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 217,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Health Coverage

Parental Leave & Family Support

Financial Wellness

Meals & Home Office Support

Flexible PTO

Wellness & Development

Mental & Physical Health Support

Extra Perks

Job summary

Grow Therapy is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to lead their Security Engineering function. This role is integral in shaping and executing a multi-year roadmap to enhance security protocols across teams.

The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in multiple security domains, hands-on engineering skills, and experience in building organizational security programs. This position offers the flexibility of hybrid or remote work, supporting the company's commitment to a diverse and equitable workplace.

Qualifications

• Experience across Product Security, Cloud Security, Data Security, Access Governance, and Detection & Response.
• Comfortable writing code and contributing to security infrastructure.
• Experience designing and shipping organizational-wide security processes.
• Ability to present security strategies to non-technical audiences.
• Thrives in ambiguous situations, prioritizes effectively, and executes strategically.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the Security Engineering vision and roadmap.
• Lead AI-native Security initiatives and influence safe AI tooling.
• Design and implement foundational security services.
• Drive data security compliance and visibility across the organization.
• Partner with engineering teams to promote secure practices.

Skills

Deep multi-domain security expertise

Hands-on engineering experience

Experience building security programs

Clear communication of security strategy

Values ownership and adaptability

Job description

The Opportunity

We're looking for a Staff Security Engineer to serve as the technical backbone of our Security Engineering function at Grow Therapy. You'll be the most senior hands‑on engineer on the Security team — equal parts strategist and builder — responsible for shaping and executing a multi‑year Security roadmap that protects our customers, enables our engineering organization, and helps Grow scale with trust at its core. Reporting into the Head of Security and collaborating closely with our VP of Engineering, you'll work across Product, Platform, Cloud, Compliance, Clinical, and beyond. This isn't a siloed security role: it's an opportunity to architect the secure‑by‑default foundation that every team at Grow builds on — and to influence how security culture is practiced, democratized, and celebrated across the company.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Define and drive the Security Engineering North Star. Lead the development of a consolidated, multi‑year Security Engineering vision — conducting gap analyses, aligning with key stakeholders, and translating strategy into an executable roadmap that teams across the organization can rally behind.
• Lead the charge on AI‑native Security: Security sits within Grow’s Internal Foundations pillar, which is building company‑wide infrastructure to support AI adoption. We build AI tools Security, Engineering, and the company at large. You’ll be in an incredible position to influence safe and thoughtful adoption of AI tooling at the enterprise level.
• Build secure‑by‑default infrastructure. Design, build, and roll out foundational security services — including unified authentication, authorization, audit logging, and egress control — so that engineering teams can build fast without compromising on security.
• Own data security at scale. Drive systematic data tagging across Grow's production data models, aligning with our Data Classification Policy to ensure every datastore is compliant with security controls and observable by the teams who own it.
• Champion security visibility and accountability. Build company‑wide security scorecards so every team has a clear, real‑time view of their security posture — turning security from a periodic audit into a continuous, embedded practice.
• Enable and empower the engineering organization. Partner deeply with engineering, platform, and product teams to deliver high‑leverage, secure‑by‑default services — reducing the burden on individual teams while raising the security floor across Grow. Drive automated Least Privilege and systematic Vulnerability Management as org‑wide capabilities.

You’ll Be a Good Fit If

• You bring deep, multi‑domain security expertise — you've operated meaningfully across Product Security, Cloud Security, Data Security, Access Governance, and/or Detection & Response, and you know how to connect the dots between them.
• You have recent, hands‑on engineering experience — you're comfortable writing code, contributing to security infrastructure, and doing system design reviews, not just advising from the sidelines.
• You've built security programs at scale — you've designed and shipped org‑wide processes like Security Review, Secure Design, Security Champions, and Security Metrics Reporting at a previous company.
• You're a clear, compelling communicator — you can present security strategy and risk to non‑technical audiences (including executives and clinical stakeholders) with precision, empathy, and confidence.
• You're energized by ownership and ambiguity — you thrive when given a blank canvas, know how to prioritize ruthlessly, and can move fluidly between long‑term vision and near‑term execution.

Employment Type

Full Time, Exempt

Base Compensation

• Hybrid Commitment: $217,000–$288,000 USD Annually
• Fully Remote Commitment: $182,000–$240,000 USD Annually

This role can be hybrid (onsite from our NYC, San Francisco, or Seattle hub location three days per week: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) or fully remote. Both arrangements include travel 2–3 times per year (e.g., company and department offsites).

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus life and disability coverage.
• Parental Leave & Family Support: Up to 18 weeks paid leave and a new child stipend.
• Financial Wellness: 401(k) program and equity opportunities.
• Meals & Home Office Support: Stipends for home office setup and ongoing funds for meals, with tailored perks for both remote and in‑office employees.
• Time Off to Recharge: Flexible PTO, 12 paid holidays, and a full winter break week.
• Wellness & Development: Annual stipends to put towards personal & professional growth.
• Mental & Physical Health Support: No‑cost access to therapy through the Grow platform, weekly flexible hours for self‑care (“Mental Health Mornings/Afternoons”) and memberships to leading wellness apps such as One Medical, Headspace, and Talkspace.
• Extra Perks: Pet insurance discounts, commuter benefits, and global travel assistance.

Grow Therapy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.