Ambience Healthcare · 1 day ago
Staff Security Engineer
San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$225K/yr - $275K/yr
7+ years expAmbience Healthcare is the leading AI platform for documentation, coding, and clinical workflow, built to reduce administrative burden and protect revenue integrity at the point of care. As a Staff Security Engineer, you will own the systems that protect the platform at scale, focusing on application security, cloud security, detection and response, and security tooling and automation.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)HealthcareInformation TechnologyHealth CareMedical
Responsibilities
Design and implement secure-by-default patterns across our backend and infrastructure
Identify and remediate vulnerabilities in application logic, APIs, and data flows
Own security posture across our cloud environment: IAM, network boundaries, secrets management, and secure service-to-service communication
Build and operate detection pipelines, alerts, and runbooks
Lead investigations, root cause analysis, and systemic fixes — not just one-off patches
Extend and integrate security tools through code
Automate controls, evidence collection, and remediation to reduce manual work and scale coverage
Set technical direction for security across teams
Threat model new products, influence designs early, and raise the security bar company-wide
Qualification
Required
7+ years of hands-on experience in security engineering, with deep exposure to securing complex, high-growth technical environments
Staff-level scope: led cross-cutting security initiatives, influenced architecture, and embedded security best practices across teams
Strong software engineering fundamentals (CS degree or equivalent experience); comfortable reading, writing, and modifying production code in Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar
Proven experience in security architecture and systems hardening across applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments
Hands-on with vulnerability management and penetration testing: identifying, prioritizing, and driving remediation of real risks
Experience selecting and extending modern security tools for detection, incident response, automation, and threat monitoring
Strong cloud security background (AWS and/or GCP), including IAM, networking, and secure service design
Collaborative and pragmatic: able to partner with engineers, influence designs early, and explain security tradeoffs clearly
Benefits
Health, dental, and vision coverage
Quarterly retreats
Unlimited PTO
401(k) plan with matching
Company
Ambience Healthcare
Ambience Healthcare develops an AI operating system used for documentation, coding, and clinical workflows in healthcare organizations.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (4)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$319.29MKey Investors
Andreessen Horowitz,Oak HC/FTKleiner Perkins,OpenAI Startup Fund
2025-07-29Series C· $243M
2024-02-06Series B· $70M
2022-04-25Series A
Leadership Team
Nikhil Buduma
Co-Founder & CEO
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Jeffrey Gerson
Vice President of Marketing
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