Headway
Security Engineer (Product)
$183K–$215K
Remote · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years in security and/or software engineering roles.
About the job
Build and drive Headway’s product and application security efforts, partnering with product and engineering teams to secure products and develop AI-native security tooling.
What you'll do
- Conduct security reviews, participate in implementation and product design, and identify vulnerabilities in existing products.
- Build agentic security workflows and application guardrails that help developers build securely by default.
- Assist with incident response, vulnerability management, penetration testing, security reviews, and other security operations.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of experience in security and/or software engineering, with security-related projects or security generalist responsibilities.
- Technical experience building secure platforms and products, including security design and code reviews.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
Pay
$182,750 – $215,000 USD base salary
Tools
Lacework, Python 3, TypeScript, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, React, Postgres, Redis
AI focus
Build agentic security tooling and workflows to address potential code problems at scale; develop AI-native product security.
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