Senior Security Engineer, Headway
IR & Automation
$198-267k
+ Equity
More information about location
Therapist-by-insurance marketplace
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Therapist-by-insurance marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$198-267k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a new mental healthcare system, rewired for access and affordability.
Role
Who you are
- Have deep incident response experience: You’ve led or contributed to major security incident investigations and developed playbooks, processes, and tooling to improve response
- Are passionate about automation: You’ve built or implemented automated workflows that reduce MTTR (mean time to respond) and increase consistency in security operations
- Have a strong engineering foundation: You’re comfortable writing production-quality code and building internal tools and systems in support of security operations
- Thrive in ambiguous environments: You enjoy solving problems without a defined path and bring a pragmatic, fast-moving mindset to security engineering
- Collaborate well across teams: You’re proactive in working with IT, infrastructure, and product engineers to drive scalable solutions to shared security challenges
- Care deeply about impact: You want your work to contribute directly to a meaningful mission—improving access to mental healthcare
What the job involves
- The Trust team at Headway is responsible for safeguarding the privacy and security of our therapists, patients, and payer partners
- As one of the first dedicated Security Engineers on our budding D&R pod, you’ll play a foundational role in building our incident response and security operations capabilities
- Your work will center around designing and automating our response processes, ensuring we can rapidly contain and remediate threats across our production and corporate environments
- You’ll collaborate closely with Security, IT, and Engineering teams to build scalable and efficient security automations, lead investigations, and drive continuous improvement in our ability to respond to security events with speed and precision
- Lead security incident response readiness and execution: Design, build, and refine our incident response processes, including playbooks, tooling, and automations that reduce manual overhead and speed up remediation
- Automate security workflows: Develop scalable automations that streamline detection triage, investigation, and response, integrating with internal systems and third-party platforms
- “Close the loop” by mitigating identified risks: Work with Engineering and Trust teams to remediate risks identified during and after the lifecycle of a security incident
- Build and maintain response infrastructure: Own the systems and integrations that support real-time alerting, case management, and incident tracking
- Continuously improve event coverage: Ensure comprehensive visibility across our environments (cloud, corporate, SaaS, and endpoints), identify telemetry gaps, and lead efforts to close them
- Support broader security operations: Contribute to vulnerability management, penetration testing coordination, and security reviews, helping to scale Headway’s security posture through automation and repeatable processes
- Tools we use:
- Languages: Python 3, TypeScript
- Libraries: FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Celery, React/Remix
- Datastores: PostgreSQL, Snowflake
- Infrastructure: AWS (Fargate, ECS, S3), Kafka
- Monitoring & Response: Datadog, PagerDuty
- Version Control: GitHub
- Security Tooling: Snyk, Semgrep, (plus custom tooling and SOAR integrations)
Application process
- After you apply to Headway, here are some details of what to expect during the interview process
- Initial screen: You’ll connect with someone in recruiting so you can learn more about the team, Headway’s mission and exciting growth, and we can get a better idea of your background
- First round: You'll meet with the hiring manager to hear more about the role and team, and further illustrate the depth of your experience as it relates to the requirements of this specific role
- Final rounds: You’ll meet several more team members for technical and non-technical interviews, including our CISO who this role reports to, and leave with a fuller picture of what it’s like to work at Headway
- References and the Offer: Our favorite part of the process! We'll send over all of the details, including specifics on employee equity, and congratulatory messages from excited future team members!
Our take
1 in 4 US citizens are currently living with treatable mental health conditions, however, a vast majority of people are unable to access the care they need, the primary reason being cost. Headway connects clients with therapists who accept insurance as payment and provides independent practitioners with the tools and resources needed to serve their patients and manage administrative workloads.
Headway’s concept is timely, with national mental health under particular strain following events from the past few years. The company facilitates over 300,000 appointments per month and has attracted backing from the likes of Accel and Google Ventures.
Covering 16 states and the District of Columbia, the company intends to broaden its presence across the US using its 2023 Series C funding of $125 million. This is a crucial avenue for further growth, as medical care deserts across the US mean the potential market is vast.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
64% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Oct 2023
$125m
SERIES C
Total funding: $327m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Tribeca, New York, NY
Leadership
Andrew Adams
(CEO)Worked as a Product Analyst at Spring, and was a Software Development Engineer Intern at Amazon.
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