Headway
Senior Security Engineer (Infrastructure)
$223K–$278K
Remote +3 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- Remote
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
New York, NY - Experience
- 5+ years in security and/or software engineering roles.
About the job
Build and mature Headway’s infrastructure and cloud security capabilities, partnering with engineering teams to reduce risk and protect customer data.
What you'll do
- Partner with Product and Infrastructure teams on secure system design, security reviews, implementation, and critical infrastructure improvements.
- Build infrastructure and application guardrails, and improve secure-by-default engineering practices.
- Develop cloud security standards, hardening, and vulnerability remediation; support incident response and other security operations.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience in security and/or software engineering, with security-related project work or security generalist responsibilities.
- Technical experience building secure platforms and products.
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with other teams.
Pay
$222.8K – $278.5K (base salary)
Tools
Anthropic, Cursor, Langsmith, Wiz, Cloudflare, Python 3, TypeScript, AWS
AI focus
Build an AI-native approach to cloud configuration standards, hardening, and vulnerability remediation; the role seeks someone eager to advance AI’s use in infrastructure security.
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