Product Security Engineer

Modern Health is a mental health benefits platform for employers. We are the first global mental health solution to offer employees access to one-on-one, group, and self-serve digital resources for their emotional, professional, social, financial, and physical well-being needs—all within a single platform. Whether someone wants to proactively manage stress or treat depression, Modern Health guides people to the right care at the right time. We empower companies to help all their employees be the best version of themselves, and believe in meeting people wherever they are in their mental health journey.

Modern Health is backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, John Doerr, Y Combinator, and Battery Ventures and raised more than $170 million in less than two years, making Modern Health the fastest entirely female-founded company in the U.S. to reach Unicorn status.

More about our culture and what you can expect when you join the team:

• “It Takes a Village” culture. Modern Health has a unique and unabashed culture centered around high empathy and high accountability - with a drive to win. We are energized by bringing together the best talent in the industry to achieve audacious goals focused on making mental health a strength and priority for all.
• We have an obsession to win. We are highly ambitious and passionate about the work that we do.  We take pride in delivering excellence and our personal best and we continuously innovate to uniquely solve our customers’ needs. 
• We are accountable and can rely on each other. We are a team and hold ourselves and each other accountable. We believe in transparent communication and continuous feedback to foster a culture of trust, reliability, and growth. 
• We demonstrate empathy. We have a supportive and diverse culture where we bolster and uplift each other as we pursue our lofty goals. We encourage selflessness and a willingness to support others, fostering a collaborative and respectful environment. 
• We exhibit a bias towards action. This is a fast-paced environment. We jump into problems and initiate solutions. We empower our people to make decisions and experiment, iterate, and repeat until we get it right. 

Modern Health is a fully remote workforce and a hyper-growth company that is often recognized for its excellence, winning awards such as World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2023 by Fast Company, Top 25 Companies of San Francisco 2023, and 2023 Well-Being Trailblazer Award. To protect our culture and help our team stay connected, we require overlapping hours for everyone. While many roles may function from anywhere in the world—see individual job listing for more—US based team members who live outside the Pacific time zone are expected to work at least six hours between 8 am and 5 pm Pacific time each workday.

We are looking for driven, creative, and passionate individuals to join in our mission. An inclusive and diverse culture are key components of mental well-being in the workplace, and that starts with how we build our own team. If you're excited about a role, we'd love to hear from you!

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!

This position is not eligible to be performed in Hawaii.

• →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.
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• 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.

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

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