Senior Security Engineer (Detections)

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 45,000 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. Join us, and help change mental healthcare for the better.

About the role

The Trust 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 security engineering efforts. In this role, you will be expected to build, extend, and connect critical Headway systems to our security event infrastructure. You will also partner closely with members of Security, IT, and other Headway engineering teams to ensure that our complete production and corporate environments have security telemetry coverage and anomalous event detection.

What you’ll do at Headway:

• Build foundational detection and response infrastructure: build the services and tooling that will enable proactive security risk and anomaly detections
• Develop and improve automated detections: prioritize security event infrastructure and detections processes to enable react in real-time
• Enable analysis of security events from all sources (e.g. cloud infrastructure, SaaS IdP, logs) and identify gaps in coverage: prioritize the highest value signals and potential tradeoffs in priorities of both production and corporate services
• Partner with Trust and Engineering teams to identify risk signals -  Collaborate with Trust and Engineering teams to recognize and flag potential risk signals during all stages of Headway event’s lifecycle.
• 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:

• Languages: Python 3, TypeScript
• Libraries: FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, React/Remix, Celery
• Datastores: PostgreSQL, Snowflake
• Infrastructure: AWS (Fargate, ECS, S3, and more), Kafka
• Monitoring: Datadog, PagerDuty
• Version Control: Github
• Vulnerability Management: Snyk, 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 on startup or growth stage teams with a demonstrated history of working on detections & response security-related projects.
• Strong technical depth and breadth: You have technical experience with building secure platforms and products at a deep level. You want to understand security systems and improve their efficiency and scalability. 
• Strong cross-functional experience: You love partnering with other teams to help both teams achieve their goals.
• 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.

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