Head of DevOps, Security & IT, Color
$260-315k
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office (Burlingame, CA)
Data-driven platform for population healthcare
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Data-driven platform for population healthcare
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$260-315k
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office (Burlingame, CA)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To provide a data-driven approach to helping everybody lead their healthiest lives possible.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for someone who’s scaled modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform), built security maturity (SOC 2, HIPAA, incident response), and run lean, effective IT operations for a remote and hybrid workforce – not from the sidelines, but from the center of the action
- 10+ years of experience across infrastructure and security, with 5+ years in a management role
- Demonstrated success leading DevOps, platform engineering, or developer productivity teams working with cloud-native environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, Kubernetes)
- Hands-on experience with security engineering, cloud security posture, and incident response
- Experience supporting compliance frameworks to deliver on SOC 2, HIPAA, and HITRUST
- Strong working knowledge of CI/CD, observability, identity and access management, and secure software development practices
- Passion and outstanding ability to communicate complex ideas clearly, concisely, and persuasively across an organization
- Experience improving IT tooling across an organization
- Proven ability to manage, develop and grow talent
- Background in healthcare, fintech, or other regulated domains
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Head of DevOps, Security & IT (hands on, startup scale) to take ownership of all things platform, security, and internal IT
- DevOps / Infrastructure & Developer Experience: Our cloud infra and internal platform and developer productivity team
- Information Security: Security and compliance operations for our cloud-native, healthcare-regulated environment
- IT: Internal tools, support, and identity systems that power our hybrid, tech-forward company
- This is a highly cross-functional engineering leadership role that will partner with Legal, Product, Business Operations and the rest of Engineering to evolve the foundational systems that make our teams fast, secure, and effective
- Lead the team responsible for CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, build/test/deploy tooling, and our internal developer platform
- Drive initiatives that improve engineering velocity, reliability, and observability
- Champion our standards for environment management, deployment safety, and DevEx best practices
- Own security architecture and execution across cloud infrastructure, identity, and application layers
- As our Information Security Officer, partner with Legal and People on compliance efforts, security audits (SOC 2, HIPAA, HITRUST) and risk assessments
- Lead vulnerability management, incident response, and secure development lifecycle practices
- Oversee a high-leverage IT team responsible for device management, SaaS access, identity systems and helpdesk support
- Build policies and tooling strategy to support secure, frictionless workflows for a hybrid workforce
- Design and evolve the internal SaaS and productivity stack to scale with the company’s growth
- Hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing team across DevSecOps, compliance infrastructure, security, and IT
- Define and track KPIs across platform reliability, incident response, internal SLAs, and productivity tooling
- As a member of the Engineering senior leadership team you will collaborate cross-functionally with legal, people, operations and product
Our take
The genetic testing market is hugely promising, with an annual growth rate of over 10%, it’s expected to grow to a $21 billion industry by 2027. Color’s main offering is genetic testing, an increasingly popular preventative healthcare strategy which informs patients about inherited health risks, and puts them in contact with counselors to work on a response plan.
There are plenty of prominent actors in the marketplace, with 23andMe the most well known. However, Color stands out from its competitors by not working in the direct-to-consumer market, but by partnering up with employers, unions and governments to provide population-wide insights. The company’s client list is impressive, including the National Institutes of Health and the State of California, as well as Salesforce, Levis and Visa.
Thanks to a near $170 million series D funding round at the beginning of 2021, the company’s value hit “unicorn” status as it surpassed $1.5 billion. The company’s future growth will be interesting to watch, with the company announcing a new behavioural healthcare solution in October 2022 alongside the acquisition of mental health platform Mood Lifters. In 2024, Color began working with OpenAI on early detection tools for cancer. These developments are in line with Color's aim to build a wider infrastructure for a tech-based public health approach and indicate a push for a future IPO.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES E
Jan 2021
$167m
SERIES D
Total funding: $482m
Company benefits
- 💰 Competitive salary
- ✨ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
- 📈 401k match
- 📝 Monthly phone and wifi stipend for employees
- 🏝 Generous vacation policy, paid holidays and company-wide recharge days
- 🍼 Equal paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
- 🧬 Four complimentary clinical-grade genetic testing kits for you and your family
Company HQ
Ingold - Milldale, Burlingame, CA
Leadership
Othman Laraki
(CEO & Co-Founder)After an MBA at MIT, they worked at Google as a Product Manager for almost 4 years, prior to co-founding Mixer Labs and working at Twitter and Pinterest. They left this Board role at ESI Group in 2012 to co-found Color in March 2013.
Elad Gil
(Board Member & Co-Founder)They hold a Ph.D. from MIT and has degrees in mathematics and biology from UCSD. Former Product Manager for Google Mobile Maps and was VP at Twitter before co-founding Color.
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