Senior Security Engineer (Detections)

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Requirements:

• Have 0 → 1 security experience: You have 5+ years experience in security and/or software engineering roles on startup or growth stage teams with a demonstrated history of working on detections & response security-related projects.
• Strong technical depth and breadth: You have technical experience with building secure platforms and products at a deep level. You want to understand security systems and improve their efficiency and scalability.
• Strong cross-functional experience: You love partnering with other teams to help both teams achieve their goals.
• 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.

Responsibilities:

• Build foundational detection and response infrastructure: build the services and tooling that will enable proactive security risk and anomaly detections
• Develop and improve automated detections: prioritize security event infrastructure and detections processes to enable react in real-time
• Enable analysis of security events from all sources (e.g. cloud infrastructure, SaaS IdP, logs) and identify gaps in coverage: prioritize the highest value signals and potential tradeoffs in priorities of both production and corporate services
• Partner with Trust and Engineering teams to identify risk signals -  Collaborate with Trust and Engineering teams to recognize and flag potential risk signals during all stages of Headway event’s lifecycle.
• Assist in ongoing security operations: You will be part of the security and privacy team and have responsibilities to assist in incident response, vulnerability management, penetration testing, security reviews, and other operational tasks to ensure that our security program is operating at a world-class level.