Staff Security Engineer (Data Security)

Aledade

Austin, United States Posted September 11, 2026

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Remote Full-time Mid level
Job Description

Join our team as a Staff Security Engineer, where you will design, implement, and maintain security services that support our business. You will work cross-functionally to shape our security services strategy and execution, set and uphold security processes, and mentor new engineers. Enjoy a remote-first working environment, flexible work schedules, and generous benefits including 168 PTO hours, 12 weeks paid parental leave, and a 401(k) with up to 4% match.

  • Lead the development, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of comprehensive security strategies and solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
  • Design and deploy advanced security controls to protect the business, working across disciplines to shape the security services strategy and execution.
  • Mentor and galvanize new engineers to do their best work, setting and upholding the standard for security processes to support high-quality engineering.
  • BS/BTech (or higher) in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity or a related field
  • 8+ years of experience in software or security engineering within Cloud Native environments
  • Cloud & Data Platforms: Experience with modern cloud data platforms (e.g., Postgres, Snowflake, Databricks, AWS S3) and data architectures (data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouses)
  • Compliance & Privacy: Foundational understanding of protecting PII/PHI and healthcare regulatory requirements (e.g., HIPAA)
  • Data Security Posture Management (DSPM): Deep experience with data discovery, classification, and other DSPM focused areas to help protect sensitive data across the organization
  • Technical & Scripting: Proficiency in Python (or a similar language) and regex patterns for automation and tooling integration
  • DSPM Tools: Hands-on experience with Data Security Posture Management platforms (e.g., Wiz DSPM, BigID, Cyera, Bedrock Data)
  • Industry Context: Prior experience working in healthcare, health tech, or another highly regulated, compliance-heavy environment
  • Data Lifecycle: Familiarity with data retention, lifecycle management, and legal hold processes
  • Pipeline Integration: Experience embedding security controls directly into data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows
  • Data Protection: Familiarity and experience with Tokenization, Encryption, or cryptography tools or processes that help protect sensitive data at rest
  • Physical Requirements
  • Sitting for prolonged periods of time. Extensive use of computers and keyboard. Occasional walking and lifting may be required
  • Experience architecting, developing, and deploying large-scale distributed systems at scale
  • Experience with cloud technologies, e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP
  • Experience building continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD) pipelines
  • Familiarity with server-side web technologies (eg: Java, Python, Scala, C#, C++, Go)
  • 4+ years of experience acting as a trusted technical decision-maker in a team setting, solving for short-term and long-term business value
  • Experience with health-tech systems, like Electronic Health Records, Clinical data, etc
Required Skills
cybersecurity cloud-native PostgreSQL Snowflake Databricks Amazon Web Services Amazon S3 compliance HIPAA Python embeddings ETL cryptography distributed systems Azure Google Cloud Platform
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