Staff Security Engineer

About Us:

Ambience 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. Trusted by top health systems across North America Ambiences platform is live across outpatient emergency and inpatient settings supporting more than 100 specialties with real-time coding-aware documentation. The platform integrates directly with Epic Oracle Cerner athenahealth and other major EHRs. Founded in 2020 by Mike Ng and Nikhil Buduma Ambience is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Oak HC/FT Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) OpenAI Startup Fund Kleiner Perkins and other leading investors.

Join us in the endeavor of accelerating the path to safe & useful clinical super intelligence by becoming part of our community of problem solvers technologists clinicians and innovators.

The Role:

Ambience runs real-time clinical workflows inside the most security-sensitive health systems in the country. That means security cant be bolted on it has to be engineered into the product.

As a Staff Security Engineer youll own the systems that protect our platform at scale: application security cloud security detection and response and the security primitives other teams build on. Youll design guardrails that make the secure path the default harden our infrastructure against real threats and partner with engineering to eliminate entire classes of risk.

This is a builder role. Youll write code design systems and lead cross-cutting security initiatives that directly enable enterprise trust and customer expansion.

What Youll Own:

Application & Platform Security Design and implement secure-by-default patterns across our backend and infrastructure. Identify and remediate vulnerabilities in application logic APIs and data flows.

Cloud & Infrastructure Security Own security posture across our cloud environment: IAM network boundaries secrets management and secure service-to-service communication.

Detection & Incident Response Build and operate detection pipelines alerts and runbooks. Lead investigations root cause analysis and systemic fixes not just one-off patches.

Security Tooling & Automation Extend and integrate security tools through code. Automate controls evidence collection and remediation to reduce manual work and scale coverage.

Security Architecture & Leadership Set technical direction for security across teams. Threat model new products influence designs early and raise the security bar company-wide.

Who You Are:

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

Why Here:

At most companies security is reactive. At Ambience its a product enabler. The systems you build determine whether we can earn and keep the trust of the largest health systems in the country.

Youll have real ownership direct access to leadership and the chance to shape how security engineering is done at a company where it truly matters. Small team high trust and problems that are both technically deep and mission-critical.

Pay Transparency
We offer a base compensation range of approximately $225000$275000 per year along with meaningful equity. This intentionally broad range provides flexibility for candidates to tailor their cash and equity mix based on individual preferences. Our compensation philosophy prioritizes meaningful equity grants enabling team members to share directly in the impact they help create. If your expectations fall outside of this range we still encourage you to applyour approach to compensation considers a range of factors to ensure alignment with each candidates unique needs and preferences.

Being at Ambience:

• An opportunity to work with cutting edge AI technology on a product that dramatically improves the quality of life for healthcare providers and the quality of care they can provide to their patients

• Work alongside a world-class diverse team that is deeply mission aligned

• Ownership over your success and the ability to significantly impact the growth of our company

• Competitive salary and equity compensation with benefits including health dental and vision coverage quarterly retreats unlimited PTO and a 401(k) plan with matching

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Required Experience:

Staff IC