Senior Security Engineer

About Pair Team

Pair Team is revolutionizing healthcare for Medicaid, Medicare, and public assistance programs by integrating medical, behavioral, and social services. As an AI-enabled public benefit corporation, we partner with community organizations to deliver "whole-person" care, improving access, building trust, and significantly lowering costs. Our AI-first infrastructure connects healthcare and social services into a unified network, automating operations and learning from patient interactions to continuously improve outcomes. We are the largest complex care provider in California and are expanding nationally.

About the Opportunity

As a HIPAA-regulated, AI-native company, security is paramount. We are looking for our first dedicated Security Engineer to scale our security posture alongside our growing platform, AI capabilities, and regulatory footprint. This is a highly hands-on engineering role where you will own the implementation of security controls across applications, cloud infrastructure, AI systems, and compliance initiatives. You will secure patient-facing voice agents, LLM-powered workflows, internal developer tooling, and our vendor ecosystem. Partnering closely with Engineering and IT, you will remediate findings, enhance security foundations, and build systems that enable rapid, safe innovation. This role is perfect for an engineer who thrives on building, coding, automating, and shaping security at a company dedicated to improving healthcare access for underserved communities through AI.

This is a fully remote position reporting to the IT Lead.

What You’ll Do

• Own vulnerability management, dependency security, threat modeling, security code reviews, and remediation of penetration test findings.
• Strengthen AWS security posture, identity and access management (IAM, SSO, SAML, SCIM), endpoint security, threat detection, and incident response capabilities.
• Design and implement security controls for AI-powered products and workflows, including protections against prompt injection, data leakage, and other AI-specific risks.
• Build technical safeguards for the secure use of Protected Health Information (PHI) and sensitive data within LLM-powered systems.
• Implement and maintain technical controls, evidence, and security practices required to support HIPAA, SOC 2, and other compliance programs.
• Leverage AI-powered tooling, automation, and modern security platforms to scale security impact across the organization.
• Build self-service security solutions, paved roads, and runbooks to empower engineers to move quickly while maintaining strong security standards.
• Collaborate with Engineering and IT to deliver pragmatic, scalable security solutions that support product velocity and business growth.
• Act as a force multiplier for the Pod-Infra team.

What You’ll Need

• 2+ years of Security Engineering experience, with significant depth in either application security or infrastructure/cloud security and working proficiency in the other.
• Strong AWS and cloud security expertise, including IAM, identity management (SSO, SAML, SCIM), network security, secrets management, and cloud-native security tooling.
• Hands-on software engineering experience with the ability to read, review, and ship production code in Ruby and/or TypeScript. Python experience is a plus.
• Experience implementing technical controls in regulated environments such as HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST, PCI, or similar compliance frameworks.
• Demonstrated fluency with AI and LLM-powered tools, including practical experience incorporating them into day-to-day engineering workflows.
• Strong understanding of AI security concepts, including prompt injection, AI agent guardrails, data governance, PHI handling, and AI vendor risk.
• Builder mindset with a bias toward execution, ownership, and practical problem-solving.
• Ownership mindset – drive results for the mission, business, and customer experience.
• Strong collaboration skills with thought partners from engineering, product, and legal.
• Strong desire to work in an early-stage startup environment that is fast-paced, complex, and has minimal barriers to decision-making.
• Passion for helping individuals experiencing complex chronic needs such as homelessness, severe mental illness, and substance use disorder.

Bonus Points

• A consulting or advisory background.
• Experience as an early security hire at a startup, particularly as the first or early security engineer.
• Experience securing consumer-facing or patient-facing AI products and applications.
• Contributions to open-source security projects, security tooling, and/or published security research.
• CISSP, OSCP, AWS Security Specialty, or similar certifications.

Our Values

• Lead with integrity: Keep commitments, take responsibility, be dependable, and choose authenticity.
• Embrace challenges: Step into discomfort, help each other learn, provide feedback with candor and kindness.
• Break through walls: Go the extra mile, run toward hard things, be resilient, and challenge the status quo.
• Act beyond yourself: Build each other up, respect boundaries, seek to understand, and assume positive intent.
• Care comes first: Uphold high standards for patients, be relentless in pursuing the mission, and practice self-care.

Because We Value You

• Competitive salary: $170,000 - $190,000 (depending on experience).
• Equity compensation package.
• Flexible vacation policy.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k).
• 100% company-sponsored short and long-term disability and life insurance.
• Subsidized backup childcare and caregiver supports through Wellthy.
• Fully remote work environment.
• Monthly $100 work-from-home expense stipend.
• Company-provided equipment.
• Opportunity for rapid career progression and personal growth.