Charlie Health
Personalized mental health treatment for teens, young adults & families in crisis.
Lead Security Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
39 days ago
Salary
$180K - $240K / year
Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishJavaNode.jsPythonSDLCType Script
Job Description
• Partner closely with engineering and product teams to embed secure development practices across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Be the subject matter expert on application security, guiding the business in building secure, scalable and HIPAA-compliant software solutions.
• Collaborate with product and IT engineering teams to design secure applications and features.
• Educate developers on secure coding practices and security testing.
• Conduct code reviews, threat models and risk assessments to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities early.
• Perform internal penetration testing and support incident response for application-level issues.
• Continuously monitor the threat landscape to proactively adjust defenses and strategies.
• Develop and implement tools and frameworks to integrate security into CI/CD pipelines.
• Work with teams to build and enforce secure SDLC controls in a fast-paced agile environment.
• Own and enhance application vulnerability management and remediation processes.
• Lead implementation of security policies, standards and remediation processes.
• Work cross-functionally to balance security risks with business objectives and product timelines.
• Participate in security incident response, forensic investigations and security incident postmortems related to applications and systems.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in application security, secure software development, or related roles.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Proficiency in secure coding practices and languages such as TypeScript, Node, Python, Java, C++ or similar.
- Ability to contribute code changes to production applications as needed, including debugging, fixing security vulnerabilities, and collaborating with engineering teams on secure feature development.
- Hands-on experience with application security tools (e.g., Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Fiddler).
- Deep understanding of web application vulnerabilities: XSS, CSRF, SQLi, session management, etc.
- Experience implementing security in CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Action and agile development workflows.
- Familiarity with management and deployment of SAST, DAST, and SCA tooling
- Knowledge of authentication technologies (i.e. Auth0, Okta, etc) and how to securely integrate them with applications
- Strong communication skills with ability to clearly articulate risk to technical and non-technical audiences.
Benefits
- comprehensive benefits offered to all full-time, exempt employees
- stock options
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