Senior Security Engineer (Product)

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Responsibilities

• ▹Partner with product and engineering teams to design and develop new features securely
• ▹Participate in implementation efforts, perform security reviews, and support product design decisions
• ▹Audit and surface vulnerabilities in current products
• ▹Build agentic security tooling that addresses code problems at scale
• ▹Define and build application guardrails so developers can build securely by default
• ▹Assist with security operations: incident response, vulnerability management, penetration testing, security reviews

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of experience in security and/or software engineering roles with security-related project work
• ▹Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
• ▹Deep technical experience building secure platforms and products
• ▹Excited to perform security design and code reviews
• ▹Enthusiasm for AI's impact on product security
• ▹Thrives in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
• ▹Results-driven mindset
• ▹Motivated by Headway's mission

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Equity compensation
• ▹Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• ▹HSA/FSA
• ▹401K
• ▹Work-from-home stipend
• ▹Therapy reimbursement
• ▹16-week parental leave
• ▹Carrot Fertility annual reimbursement and membership
• ▹13 paid holidays plus a December holiday break
• ▹Flexible PTO
• ▹Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• ▹Training and professional development

About the company

Headway is a Series D company with $325M+ in funding (a16z, Accel, Spark Capital, and others) building a new mental healthcare system - over 75,000 therapists and 1M+ patients rely on its software to automate insurance credentialing, claims, and payment reconciliation.