Senior Security Engineer – Platform Security
Job Summary
Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible high-quality and sustainable healthcare for all.
athenahealth is a progressive & innovative U.S. health-tech leader delivering cloud-based solutions that improve clinical and financial performance across the care continuum. Our modern open ecosystem connects care teams and delivers actionable insights that drive better outcomes. Acquired by Bain Capital in a $17B deal were growing fast and investing in bold strategic product innovations. We foster a values-driven culture focused on flexibility collaboration and work-life balance.
Headquartered in Boston we have offices in Atlanta Austin Belfast Burlington and in India: Bangalore Chennai and Pune.
Position Summary: We are looking for a Senior Security Engineer (Platform Security) to help strengthen the security capabilities of our team in Bangalore. You will work closely with scrum teams product managers security architects and engineering leadership to improve the quality and adoption of automation and orchestration across athenahealths security practices. But enough about us; lets talk about you!
You are a curious problem solver with a passion for security. You enjoy improving the quality and adoption of Security Development Lifecycle practices and you thrive in technical leadership roles with a high degree of independence.
The Team: Join a collaborative group that tackles new and complex application security challenges at scale. Use your security engineering and communication skills to make a difference at a company that enables medical professionals to focus on what they do best treating patients.
Job Responsibilities
Drive the execution and adoption of key security best practices across the R&D organization.
Contribute to the enterprise security catalog of best practices techniques and patterns to enable secure implementation of product features.
Partner with InfoSec teams to deploy and manage internal applications on public cloud providers (AWS Azure GCP etc.).
Ensure effective organizational use of application security tools (CNAPP SCA API active testing) integrating them into a unified pipeline to prevent vulnerabilities during the development lifecycle.
Evaluate and deploy GenAI security controls across the enterprise.
Identify and explain feature-level design or architectural weaknesses that could result in security issues.
Collaborate with enterprise security leadership to track prioritize and resolve open issues.
Work with stakeholders such as Platform DevOps and Infrastructure teams to build security-hardened tech stacks for development and production.
Document share and help automate coverage for common abuse cases and attacks.
Typical Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Cybersecurity or a related field or equivalent experience.
At least 5 years of experience as a software developer and 35 years in a security-focused development role within an agile environment.
Experience in software and product design architecture product security and security issue prevention/mitigation strategies.
Strong knowledge of any programming languages such as Java JavaScript (NodeJS) C# Perl Python etc. with the ability to identify and understand security vulnerabilities in code.
Experience working with agentic coding tools and concepts (skills MCP hooks).
Practical experience with containerization (Docker) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform CloudFormation etc.).
Knowledge of key security technologies such as OAuth SAML Kubernetes etc.
Solid understanding of web services including RESTful services Service Bus architectures and JSON.
Current knowledge of HIPAA HITRUST and PCI-DSS requirements.
About athenahealth
Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible high-quality and sustainable healthcare for all.
Our company culture: Our talentedemployees or athenistas as we call ourselves spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge expertise backgrounds and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness accountability and support.
Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible high-quality and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. Thats one reason we prioritize diversity equity and inclusion in every aspect of our business from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas our partners customers and the communities where we work and serve.
What we can do for you:
Along with health and financial benefits athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location including commuter support employee assistance programs tuition assistance employee resource groups and collaborativeworkspaces some offices even welcome dogs.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environmentfull-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools athenahealthenablesemployees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks we sponsor events throughout the year including book clubs external speakers and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning the support of an engaged team and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
Learn more about our culture and benefits here:
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