Senior Security Engineer
Hybrid (Denver, CO; San Francisco, CA; New York, NY)$180k - $258kFull-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
Senior Security Engineer to elevate the safety and security of Candid Health's systems and networks, focusing on hands-on security work, compliance, and collaboration with engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Build Security Guardrails: Build security protections into our systems to ensure a secure by default posture.
- Collaborate with Engineering Teams: Participate in design reviews and threat modeling sessions to identify potential security flaws early in the development process, and validate the security of new features and services during rollout ensuring security remains at the forefront of all initiatives.
- Implement & Navigate Compliance Rituals: Understand, oversee, and drive the rituals associated with HIPAA, SOC2, SOC1, PCI and HITRUST to ensure that we remain compliant and informed.
- Vulnerability Management: Regularly audit our platforms and tech stack for vulnerabilities, ensuring that vulnerabilities are identified and addressed in a timely manner.
- 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
Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in the security domain, with a proven track record of hands-on involvement in complex projects.
- Strong knowledge of HIPAA and security compliance rituals.
- Adaptable and flexible, capable of engaging with security challenges at both enterprise and client levels.
- Ability to write code to automate security and read, understand, and audit systems, networks, and IT setups to ensure airtight security.
Skills
Required:Security engineeringHIPAA complianceThreat modelingVulnerability managementVendor security & penetration testingCommunication
Nice to have:Automation scripting
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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