Senior Security Engineer

Salary: $218,500 - 273,125 per year Requirements:

• We want someone with 5+ years of experience in security and/or software engineering, including work on security-focused initiatives or in a security generalist capacity.
• We value strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to help multiple teams achieve shared goals.
• We need deep technical breadth and depth, especially in building secure platforms and products.
• You should be comfortable conducting security design reviews and code reviews.
• Experience understanding and improving the efficiency and scalability of security systems is important.
• We are looking for someone excited about AIs potential to reshape product security.
• You should thrive in ambiguity and bring an optimistic, high-energy approach to fast-moving problems.
• We value a track record of innovation at scale and leadership in adopting modern security and privacy technologies.
• You should be results-oriented and motivated by making a meaningful business impact.
• You should be mission-driven and energized by increasing access to high-quality mental health care.

• We partner with Product and Engineering to ensure new features are designed and implemented securely from the start.
• We participate in implementation efforts, security reviews, product design decisions, and vulnerability auditing across our current products.
• We build agentic security tooling to identify and address code issues at scale across our growing codebase.
• We help define what AI-native product security looks like at our company.
• We create application guardrails so developers can build securely by default.
• We foster a culture of secure development across engineering.
• We support ongoing security operations, including incident response, vulnerability management, penetration testing, security reviews, and related operational work.
• We collaborate closely with our security and privacy team to keep our program operating at a world-class level.

• AI
• Support
• Network
• Security
• Spark
• AWS
• Cloud
• Datadog
• FastAPI
• GitHub
• Kafka
• PagerDuty
• Python
• React
• Redis
• TypeScript
• Web

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We are Headway, a Series D healthcare technology company founded in 2019 and backed by more than $325M from investors including a16z, Accel, GV, Spark Capital, Thrive Capital, Forerunner Ventures, and Health Care Service Corporation. Our mission is to build a new mental healthcare system that everyone can access by making it easier for therapists to accept insurance and scale their practices. Our software supports a national network of over 60,000 providers across all 50 states and has helped more than 1 million patients. In this early Security team role, you will help shape our dedicated in-house product and application security function while working closely with product and engineering. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package that includes equity, medical, dental, and vision coverage, HSA/FSA, 401K, work-from-home support, therapy reimbursement, parental leave, flexible PTO, professional development, and more.

last updated 33 week of 2026