Sr Data Protection Cryptography Engineer

Role Description

At HealthEquity, protecting sensitive healthcare and financial data is mission‑critical. As a Senior Data Security Engineer, you’ll play a direct role in shaping how our most sensitive structured data is protected as our platform evolves to include AI agents, automation, and modern data pipelines.

You’ll help safeguard data at the point where it’s most valuable and most vulnerable — inside databases — and ensure we understand how, why, and by whom that data is accessed. Your work will directly influence how we detect risk, prevent misuse, and stay ahead of emerging threats in a rapidly changing environment.

This is a role for builders: engineers who want to design, implement, and own real security controls that matter.

What you’ll be doing

• Focus on securing and monitoring access to our structured data environment, with emphasis on hands‑on engineering and delivery.
• Database Security Monitoring & Visibility (Step One)
  • Design and implement database activity monitoring solutions (e.g., Imperva or similar).
  • Monitor and analyze database access patterns at a granular level — including service accounts, APIs, and AI-driven access.
  • Detect anomalous or risky behavior, such as unusual access frequency, new access paths, or unexpected usage patterns.
  • Build alerting and controls to help identify misuse, abuse, or runaway automation.
  • Help answer critical questions around who is accessing sensitive data, what they’re accessing, and why.
• Column-Level Encryption & Cryptography (Step Two)
  • Partner with teams evaluating or implementing column-level encryption.
  • Apply practical knowledge of cryptography concepts, including:
    • Tokenization and format-preserving encryption (FPE).
    • Key management solutions such as HashiCorp Vault or Thales.
  • Support and guide encryption initiatives, even when implementation is shared across teams.
• Database Access & Certificate Management
  • Help define secure patterns for database access, including certificate-based trust.
  • Partner with Identity and Database teams to improve how access is authenticated, managed, and audited.
  • Support secure service account usage and access boundaries.
• Cross-Team Collaboration
  • Work closely with data discovery, database administration, application, and AI teams.
  • Bring structure to complex problems by prioritizing risk, sequencing work, and driving execution.
  • Operate as a hands-on engineer who turns ambiguity into action.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience building or operating database security or hardening solutions in production.
• Hands-on experience with database activity monitoring tools (Imperva or similar).
• Working knowledge of cryptography concepts, including encryption, tokenization, or FPE.
• Strong understanding of how applications, APIs, service accounts, and AI workloads interact with databases.
• Ability to prioritize, execute, and drive outcomes in complex, evolving environments.
• Experience with certificate management or PKI.
• Background securing sensitive or regulated data environments.
• Experience partnering closely with database administrators or data platform teams.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision.
• HSA contribution and match.
• Dependent care FSA match.
• Uncapped paid time off.
• Paid parental leave.
• 401(k) match.
• Personal and healthcare financial literacy programs.
• Ongoing education & tuition assistance.
• Gym and fitness reimbursement.
• Wellness program incentives.

Onboarding & Travel

This is a remote role, with an in-person onboarding training component. New team members must participate in Trailhead, HealthEquity’s immersive onboarding experience designed to foster meaningful connections, support your integration into the organization, and equip you with a strong understanding of our business.

Trailhead participation is a key expectation of this role. Trailhead is held onsite at our headquarters once per quarter. HealthEquity covers all required travel and accommodations. This role may begin with a virtual, self-paced onboarding experience, followed by a mandatory onsite Trailhead session at a later date.

HealthEquity is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to team members with qualifying disabilities. Should you be selected for this role and require an accommodation, we will put you in touch with our Benefits Team so you can begin the accommodation request process.