Headway
Security Engineer (Detection & Response)
Remote. Posted 9 days ago
The role
You will build and refine detections, logging, and tooling to identify and respond to threats across cloud, corporate, and SaaS environments. You will also run incident response activities, threat hunting, and implement AI and automation for security tasks.
What you will do
- Build and refine detections, logging/telemetry coverage, and tooling
- Run incident response activities, threat hunting, and threat modeling
- Implement automation and AI for detection and response
- Triage security alerts
- Participate in the security on-call rotation
- Author runbooks
- Contribute to security education and partnership across engineering
- Mentor peers
- Keep detections, logging, runbooks, response processes, and threat intel documented
Required qualifications
- 1-2+ years of dedicated experience with security response and automation or a security-adjacent engineering background
- 4-5+ years in related areas such as DevOps, IT, or software engineering with concrete security responsibilities or overlap
- Comfortable scripting/coding to build and automate your own tooling
- SIEM/observability experience with logging, detection, or observability platforms in a cloud or distributed environment
- Sound judgment on AI and automation
- Comfort with high autonomy in an async environment
- Strong cross-functional collaboration with technical and non technical teams
- Motivated by Headway's mission of increasing access to high-quality mental healthcare
Nice to have
- Experience in a regulated environment (e.g. healthcare, finance, federal)
- Experience with automation/SOAR tooling
- Detection-as-Code or Infrastructure-as-Code experience
- A track record of prioritizing and shipping risk-based detections, running threat modeling, or building alert pipelines
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- HSA/FSA
- 401(k) including match for 2027!
- Carrot Fertility reimbursement
- Paid parental leave
- Paid medical leave
- Paid caregiver leave
Before you apply
- Headway participates in E-Verify
About the company
Headway is a Series D company building a new mental healthcare system to increase access. They provide software for over 90,000 providers to manage their practices and serve over 2.6 million patients.