What you'll do at Headway
Partner with Product and Infrastructure teams: 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 with teams to build platforms and infrastructure that accelerate product development while reducing risk, including (but not limited to):
System engineering or implementation efforts
Doing security reviews
Helping with system design decisions
Continuous improvement of Headway's critical infrastructure
Make the safe way, the easy way: Work on defining and building infrastructure and application guardrails so that developers can build securely by default. You also will work to instill a culture of secure system design across engineering.
Build out and mature Headway's cloud security posture: Build an AI-native approach to configuration standards, hardening, and vulnerability remediation across our AWS footprint.
Assist in ongoing security operations: You will be part of the security and have responsibilities to assist in incident response, vulnerability management, security reviews, and other operational tasks to ensure that our security program is operating at a world-class level.
Tools we use
AI: Anthropic, Cursor, Langsmith
Cloud Security: Wiz, Cloudflare
Languages: Python 3, TypeScript
Libraries: FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, React
Datastores: Postgres, Redis
Infrastructure: AWS (Fargate, ECS, K8s, S3, and more)
Monitoring: Datadog, PagerDuty
Version Control: Github
Vulnerability Management: Wiz, 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 infrastructure 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.
COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS
Medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, 401(k) including match for 2027!, Carrot Fertility reimbursement, and paid parental, medical and caregiver leave.
We believe a team's strength is in its people, and we cannot achieve this mission without a team that reflects the diversity of this problem – across race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, national origin, religion, family status, disability, military status, and experience. Headway is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Headway will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please inform the recruiter when they contact you to schedule your interview.
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