Product Security Engineer

The Role:

Maintaining the security and privacy of our users is paramount to Modern Health’s mission. As a member of the security team you will have organization-wide visibility to continuously support and monitor our commitment to privacy, security, and compliance.

This is a unique opportunity to use your engineering and security skills to make a direct impact in people's lives. We need a security engineer who can pick up and understand complex technical areas quickly, mitigate risk by increasing automation in security domains, and work with other engineers to securely release and maintain software, infrastructure, and an information security management system, while always working to increase our security and compliance posture.

This role will be part of the Product Security (ProdSec) team, report to the Head of Security, and can be based anywhere in the United States. This is a unique opportunity to be a security leader at a fast growing company, and the work done by this position will lay the foundation for security at Modern Health for years to come!

You will:

• Analyze security vulnerabilities in web and mobile applications, determine risk levels, and drive remediations in collaboration with engineering teams.
• Research and report on potential product threats, emerging vulnerabilities, and mitigation techniques relevant to the evolving health tech landscape.
• Partner with Engineering and Product stakeholders to integrate security at every stage of the SDLC, championing secure development practices and agile delivery.
• Develop and advocate for cost-effective solutions to address complex application and product security challenges.
• Implement the adoption of product security standards and best practices across the organization, influencing engineering and architecture decisions.
• Routinely test, audit, and assess the security posture of application and cloud infrastructure configurations.
• Guide engineering teams in applying secure coding standards, providing resources and actionable feedback to foster a culture of security.
• Deploy, optimize, and manage security tooling such as SAST, DAST, Hashicorp Vault, and other industry-leading application security solutions.
• Participate in collaborative threat modeling initiatives for new features and evolving services, ensuring proactive risk identification and reduction.
• Conduct secure code reviews on services and applications built with modern frameworks and technologies.
• Assist in planning and executing targeted penetration tests on new features, identifying and reporting vulnerabilities before production release.
• Collaborate on IT security initiatives, partnering with infrastructure and operations teams to review security controls for device management, endpoint protection, access management, and overall IT hygiene.
• Engage with Cloud Security efforts by partnering with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to assess, improve, and monitor cloud architecture, security policies, and cloud-native controls to ensure secure deployment and operations of applications and services.

 

Who You Are / Role Requirements:

• You are a passionate and confident team member that takes pride and ownership in the work you do.
• You are deeply familiar with secure software development practices, security-focused architecture, and infrastructure that aligns with product objectives and business needs.
• You support the adoption of application and product security best practices across engineering teams and contribute to business-wide security initiatives.
• You have hands-on experience with vulnerability management, secure code review, threat modeling, and industry-standard tools for application and product security.
• You have hands-on experience with at least one scripting language (Python and/or Bash preferred).
• You thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments, working closely with developers, product managers, and cross-functional stakeholders to secure web and mobile applications.
• You are able to assess, prioritize, and execute on projects independently.
• You are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• You bring 2-4 years of experience in product/application security or 1-3 years in security-focused software engineering.
• You have experience integrating security into agile product delivery.
• You have experience reviewing code changes with software engineers and giving security feedback in the review process.
• You have experience building or applying security controls for AI systems and using AI to improve day-to-day security engineering workflows, including code review, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and security assessments.
• You have experience assessing and improving AWS cloud posture through IAM and access reviews, network and environment segmentation, vulnerability management, centralized logging, detection, and secure CI/CD or Terraform controls.
•  Immigration sponsorship is not available for this position. Applicants must be able to maintain work authorization for the duration of employment without employer sponsorship or employer-provided training plans or attestations (including, for example, the Form I-983 required for STEM OPT).

Our stack:

• AWS: ECS and cloud hosting
• Gitlab: CI/CD
• Python: Django, Flask, aiohttp
• Data: PostgreSQL, Redis
• Monitoring: Datadog and Sentry
• IaC: Terraform, Packer

Bonus points if you have experience in: 

• Working at a high growth startup
• Working on SaaS software
• Working in Health Tech
• Software engineering experience

Benefits:

Fundamentals:

• Medical / Dental / Vision / Disability / Life Insurance 
• High Deductible Health Plan with Health Savings Account (HSA) option
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Access to coaches and therapists through Modern Health's platform
• Flexible Time Off 
• Company-wide Collective Pause Days 

Family Support:

• Parental Leave Policy 
• Family Forming Benefit through Carrot
• Family Assistance Benefit through UrbanSitter

Professional Development:

• Professional Development Stipend

Financial Wellness:

• 401k
• Financial Planning Benefit through Origin

But wait there’s more…! 

• Annual Wellness Stipend to use on items that promote your overall well being 
• New Hire Stipend to help cover work-from-home setup costs
• ModSquad Community: Virtual events like active ERGs, holiday themed activities, team-building events and more
• Monthly Cell Phone Reimbursement