Senior Security Engineer (IR & Automation)

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. Languages used include Python 3, TypeScript and frameworks FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Celery, React/Remix. Datastores include PostgreSQL, Snowflake and Infrastructure is AWS. Monitoring & Response tools such as Datadog, PagerDuty and Security tools such as Snyk, Semgrep are used, along with custom tooling and SOAR integrations.