Staff Security Engineer

About The Role: 

Your north star: Our engineering team is the engine behind our innovative virtual care platform, building AI-powered solutions that fundamentally transform care delivery and create exceptional experiences for both patients and clinicians. If you're passionate about using technology to effect real, tangible good in the world, we'd love to meet you. Security at Pomelo is an engineering problem. This role owns the execution side — the controls, automation, and code that actually reduce risk — with a lot of latitude to decide what matters and ship it. A separate compliance team owns policy and audit; you build the things that make us safer.

This role reports to VP of Engineering and can be based anywhere in the continental US. 

What you'll do

• Own security problems end to end: navigate ambiguity to decide what matters, build it, ship it independently.
• Find the real risks and build the most direct controls that take them off the table.
• Build secure-by-default libraries, guardrails, and tooling so dozens of engineers can move fast without footguns.
• Define and implement strict least-privilege guardrails across all services to safeguard sensitive patient information and health metrics.
• Harden developer machines to minimize the risk of supply chain attacks and Whatever Comes Next from AI.
• Partner with compliance to turn control objectives into real controls, and help focus effort on the requirements that genuinely reduce risk and unlock new commercial opportunities (HITRUST, health plan requirements, etc.).

Who you are

• You have a strong track record of making organizations measurably safer. That track record is risks you've closed, not tickets you've opened.
• You can tell signal from noise, and you spend your time on the risks that actually move the needle.
• You're a builder first: 7+ years of software engineering with production-grade code under your belt (Kotlin, Java, Python, Go, C# or similar).
• You have real security depth — threat modeling, identity and auth flows, the OWASP Top 10, cloud and supply-chain security.
• When something's wrong, your instinct is to understand the actual threat and build the most direct fix — not to go shopping for a product that claims to handle it.
• You're looking for room to own more over time — and you're the type to take it, not wait for it.

We'll be super excited if you:

• Have built in healthcare and understand HIPAA and HITRUST — and how to satisfy them without drowning engineering in process.
• Have experience with Google Cloud Platform and a modern product stack.
• Have built internal developer platforms or secure-by-default tooling that other engineers actually adopted.
• Have worked in a fast-paced, product-oriented startup.

Why you should join our team

By joining Pomelo, you will get in on the ground floor of a fast-moving, well-funded, and mission-driven startup that always puts the patient first. You will learn, grow and be challenged, and have fun with your team while doing it.
We strive to create an environment where employees from all backgrounds are respected. We value working across disciplines, moving fast, data-driven decision making, learning, and always putting the patient first.

Benefits and Perks:

• Comprehensive Health, Dental, and Vision coverage for employees and their families
• High deductible Health Plans with Health Savings Account (HSA) options
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Equity grant participation
• 401(k) program 
• Competitive vacation policy 
• 16 weeks paid parental leave 
• Fully remote work flexibility (within the US)

Compensation:

The expected base salary range offered for this role is $220,000-$260,000. This role is also eligible for equity, giving you an ownership stake in Pomelo’s mission. Actual compensation may vary based on relevant experience, skills, competencies, and certifications.

At Pomelo, we are committed to hiring the best team to improve outcomes for all mothers and babies, regardless of their background. We need diverse perspectives to reflect the diversity of problems we face and the population we serve. We look to hire people from a variety of backgrounds, including but not limited to race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, disability, and veteran status.

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