Maven Clinic is the world's largest virtual clinic for women and families on a mission to make healthcare work for all of us. The Staff Security Engineer will design and implement scalable security infrastructure, develop compliance observability dashboards, and lead security architecture reviews to ensure the safety and integrity of Maven's digital platform.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement scalable infrastructure supporting HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 compliance
- Build and maintain systems for identity, authentication, and access management (Okta / GCP IAM / Auth0/ OPA)
- Implement observability and anomaly detection across microservices, data stores, and SaaS platforms
- Establish Zero Trust principles and enforce least-privilege access company-wide
- Develop compliance observability dashboards and automated evidence collection
- Create self-service security tools that integrate with developer workflows (GitLab CI/CD, Terraform)
- Automate onboarding/offboarding, access reviews, and approvals
- Integrate software-supply-chain security (SBOM, dependency scanning)
- Develop or adopt AI-assisted security tooling to proactively identify risks
- Automate policy enforcement, SAST/DAST scans, and compliance verification
- Lead threat modeling and security architecture reviews for new products and services
- Partner with product and data teams to embed secure-by-default design patterns
- Ensure encryption, access tracking, and secure data handling across PHI workflows
- Contribute to incident response, post-mortems, and continual improvement of security posture
- Act as Maven’s technical authority for security engineering
- Mentor peers and promote secure coding and architecture practices
- Partner cross-functionally (Engineering, Compliance, Clinical, Legal) to align on security strategy
- Champion an engineering culture of transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement
Requirements:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ in security infrastructure or application security
- Proven ability to design and implement large-scale, distributed, cloud-native systems
- Strong coding proficiency in Python, TypeScript, Go and/or Rust
- Deep understanding of cloud security (GCP preferred; AWS/Azure welcome)
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
- Familiarity with security testing frameworks and secure SDLC principles
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
- Expertise in Zero Trust architectures, authentication/authorization frameworks, and data-loss prevention
- Experience with security compliance automation (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, NIST)
- Background in data security telemetry and threat detection
- Familiarity with AI/ML security and AI-assisted analysis tools
- Exposure to supply-chain security and CI/CD pipeline hardening
- Certifications (CISSP, GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer, OSCP) a plus