Head of Security Engineering, Candid Health
$240-310k
+ Equity
4-5 days a week in office
Healthcare revenue cycle automation software
Open for applications
Healthcare revenue cycle automation software
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$240-310k
+ Equity
4-5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help providers focus more on care delivery and less on back office administration.
Role
Who you are
- You have 10+ years of experience in security engineering, with a proven track record of building and leading teams that own complex matrices of technical surface area in startup and scaled environments
- Your expertise isn't just theoretical. You’ve had the hard conversations and driven the outcomes at an organizational scope, especially when it comes to the rituals and routines of security compliance
- With strong knowledge of HIPAA, you're no stranger to the delicate information we handle
- You are adaptable and flexible, always ready to engage with security challenges at both enterprise and customer levels
- You know when to get your hands dirty and when to delegate. You possess the ability to read, understand, and audit systems, networks, and IT setups to ensure airtight security. That, combined with a keen sense for when to handoff ownership to someone with depth in the spaces that your breadth doesn’t cover makes you an effective engineering leader
What the job involves
- You will be the first dedicated security leader at Candid Health. You won’t just be managing a checklist; you will be building the team and systems that protect our customers and their patients. You will partner closely with our Engineering and Product leadership to ensure that we move fast without breaking our promise of data integrity
- Scale and Lead a Security Engineering Organization: Interview, hire, and manage a team of top flight security engineers that will expansively own Risk, Compliance, Threat Management, Product and Application Security
- Build and Own the Security Roadmap: Lead the transition from foundational security posture to one defined by a best in class, enterprise-grade security organization
- Drive Security Prioritization at a Leadership Level: Act as the subject matter expert and voice in the room that is setting the prioritization of security initiatives and stack ranking the risks as well as advising Candid’s strategy to mitigate them in direct partnership with our executive leadership team
- Lead Trust & Transparency Efforts: Understand, oversee, and drive the rituals associated with HIPAA, SOC2, SOC1, PCI and HITRUST; this role will entail not just audits, but living processes. You will often be the technical voice in the room with our largest enterprise customers
- Act as a Security Evangelist and Culture Carrier: Educate and empower our 200 employees. From engineering practice to legal contracts, you will collaborate with virtually every team at Candid Health to promote the ethos that we are a security first, compliant organization
- Manage Third-party Relationships: Coordinate with vendors for penetration testing and other security services, ensuring that our platforms undergo regular scrutiny and remain fortified, review vendor security prior to integration
Our take
Healthcare spending in the US medical system has been ballooning for decades. Administration contributes a substantial portion to this, constituting almost three times what other developed countries spend proportionate to their healthcare budget - and taking up valuable physician hours. The detrimental impact this has on the quality and affordability of care has meant solutions are becoming urgent, and Candid Health is contributing a strong one.
The data and AI-driven platform helps healthcare providers automate the process of submitting, chasing, and appealing insurance claims. It’s regularly audited by HIPAA, helping the company dodge the tightening data protection net that’s stunted the progress of some medtech startups. Having passed this obstacle the company is running at modest capacity - the challenge now is to lock in a broader client base, which could prove challenging.
Companies like Change Healthcare and Flobotics, for example, offer automated claims submissions as part of a broader robotic process automation service for medical institutions. It may be that this holistic administrative software proves more attractive for overburdened providers. For now, however, Candid Health is gaining a respectable amount of traction and enjoyed a funding round of $29 million in 2024.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2025
$52.5m
SERIES C
Sep 2024
$29m
SERIES B
Total funding: $97.8m
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Nick Perry
(Co-Founder & CEO)A human biology graduate from Stanford, who started as an Accenture Digital consultant, before taking a role as as the forward deployed engineering lead at Palantir Technologies.
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