Senior Engineer / Tech Lead, Trust (Security, Privacy & Compliance) | GovTech

The employer is a venture-backed govtech startup that helps families identify, apply for, and remain enrolled in eligible benefit programs. The Senior Engineer / Tech Lead will own the architecture and implementation of security, privacy, and compliance controls, including identity and access management, audit logging, secure delivery, threat modeling, incident readiness, and NIST alignment.

Responsibilities:

• Design how people and services sign in, what each role is allowed to do, and where secrets are stored
• Decide how engineers get into production and who approves that access
• Write the design and the code, and agree on the requirements with the Trust PM
• Keep environments, tenants, workloads and sensitive data separate from each other
• Build audit logs and change history that show who did what, in a form outside auditors can test
• Keep the technical controls working, and move access reviews and evidence pulls from manual steps into code
• Take every technical audit finding through to closure, and work with auditors on their tests
• Build the release path in CI/CD and infrastructure as code, with approvals before anything reaches production
• Publish shared modules and reference implementations so other teams get the controls by default
• Run threat models on critical workflows and turn each finding into an engineering requirement
• Review security-sensitive code, infrastructure and architecture changes before they go live
• Own logging, detection, runbooks and escalation paths on the engineering side
• Lead or support investigation and containment when an incident happens, and join tabletop exercises with the PM and leadership
• With the PM, translate NIST requirements into controls and priorities
• Give leadership a technical roadmap for state and federal environments, moving toward FedRAMP-aligned practices where they apply

Requirements:

• 7+ years of software engineering, including a few years as the senior or lead engineer on production systems
• You've committed application and infrastructure code yourself in the last year or two
• Hands-on SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA experience: controls you implemented and ran through an audit, and a system holding protected health information that you built or operated
• Cloud-native production experience, including infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines with approval steps, and environments you set up yourself
• Identity and access systems you designed: authentication, role- or attribute-based authorization, service identities, secrets management, production access controls and audit logging
• Threat modeling carried through to shipped controls, and audit, pen-test or incident findings you closed yourself
• Good judgment on what to enforce in software and what to leave as a process, and the ability to explain that trade-off to a product lead, an auditor and an engineer
• Comfort working autonomously while the architecture and operating model are still taking shape
• You must be based in the U.S
• ideally on AWS
• NIST 800-53 or other 800-series controls you mapped to real system changes
• FedRAMP or ISO 27001 experience, even on one part of a system
• Automated evidence collection or continuous control monitoring that an auditor accepted
• Incident-response runbooks you wrote, or a tabletop exercise you ran
• Node, TypeScript and AWS in the same production environment
• Software built for government, healthcare or fintech customers