Head of Security Engineering

About the role

You will be the first dedicated security leader at Candid Health. You won't just be managing a checklist; you will be building the team and systems that protect our customers and their patients. You will partner closely with our Engineering and Product leadership to ensure that we move fast without breaking our promise of data integrity.

Responsibilities

• Scale and Lead a Security Engineering Organization: Interview, hire, and manage a team of top flight security engineers that will expansively own Risk, Compliance, Threat Management, Product and Application Security.
• Build and Own the Security Roadmap: Lead the transition from foundational security posture to one defined by a best in class, enterprise-grade security organization.
• Lead Trust & Transparency Efforts: Understand, oversee, and drive the rituals associated with HIPAA, SOC2, SOC1, PCI and HITRUST; this role will entail not just audits, but living processes. You will often be the technical voice in the room with our largest enterprise customers.
• Act as a Security Evangelist and Culture Carrier: Educate and empower our 200 employees. From engineering practice to legal contracts, you will collaborate with virtually every team at Candid Health to promote the ethos that we are a security first, compliant organization.
• 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.

Requirements

• You have 10+ years of experience in security engineering, with a proven track record of building and leading teams that own complex matrices of technical surface area in startup and scaled environments.
• Your expertise isn't just theoretical. You've had the hard conversations and driven the outcomes at an organizational scope, especially when it comes to the rituals and routines of security compliance.
• With strong knowledge of HIPAA, you're no stranger to the delicate information we handle.
• You are adaptable and flexible, always ready to engage with security challenges at both enterprise and customer levels.
• Our values
• We put our customers first
• We take care of each other and ourselves
• We anchor on outcomes and work relentlessly and creatively to achieve them
• We collectively prioritize building a diverse and inclusive workspace
• We believe humility is our greatest strength
• We are candid, kind, and committed
• We strive to be the most prepared person in the room
• We are truth seekers
• Pay Transparency

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