Staff Security Engineer
About the role
Ambience runs real-time clinical workflows inside some of the country’s most security-sensitive health systems. Security can’t be bolted on—it must be engineered into the product. This is a senior technical role focused on how Ambience designs, builds, and operates secure products. You’ll bring deep product security expertise and a strong software engineering foundation while extending your impact into cloud security as our AWS environment evolves. You’ll partner with engineering from design through verification on high-risk changes and foundational product capabilities. You’ll own security analysis, technical requirements, risk decisions, and tooling—and contribute code wherever it creates the most leverage. You’ll design secure systems, work fluently with code, and use AI to build context quickly, accelerate learning, and extend your reach—while grounding every decision in strong computer science, security fundamentals, and technical judgment.
Responsibilities
- Secure design for high-risk changes — Guide initiatives from design proposals and architecture decisions through implementation and verification. Define threat models and security requirements, review sensitive implementation paths, and contribute prototypes, automation, or PRs when needed.
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