Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer
Headway
United States Posted September 30, 2026
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Salary Range
$222,800 - $278,500
Job Description
Join Headway, a company dedicated to increasing access to high-quality mental health care. As a Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the security and privacy of our customers, including therapists, patients, and payers. You will work closely with our engineering teams to design and manage secure systems, build infrastructure that accelerates product development while reducing risk, and mature Headway's cloud security posture. You will also assist in ongoing security operations and have the opportunity to lead the industry in implementing the latest security and privacy technologies.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to design and manage secure systems, ensuring compliance with security standards.
- Define and build infrastructure and application guardrails to enable secure development practices.
- Build out and mature Headway's cloud security posture, focusing on configuration standards, hardening, and vulnerability remediation.
- Excited by AI’s potential: You believe AI will fundamentally reshape how infrastructure security works, and you want to be at the forefront of making that happen
- Thrive in ambiguity: You love tackling ambiguous problems in a fast-paced environment with an optimistic and energizing attitude
- Strong cross-functional experience: You love partnering with other teams to help both teams achieve their goals
- Results driven: You care deeply about creating impact and driving results for Headway’s business
- Strong technical depth and breadth: You have technical experience with building secure platforms and products at a deep level. You are excited to perform security design and code reviews. You want to understand security systems and improve their efficiency and scalability
- Innovation at Scale: You seek opportunities to lead the industry in implementing the latest security and privacy technologies
- Have 0 → 1 security experience: You have 5+ years experience in security and/or software engineering roles with a demonstrated history of working on security-related projects or with responsibilities as a security generalist
- Mission driven: You are motivated by Headway’s mission, increasing access to high quality mental health care
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