About the role
What we're looking for:
We need a security engineering leader with 6+ years in security engineering and 3+ years leading teams who has built a security function from scratch at a scaling startup. You should be comfortable operating as a player-coach — setting strategy and roadmap while staying hands-on with code reviews, design architecture, and leading investigations. Bonus points if you have experience in healthcare, fintech, or other highly regulated industries.
What you'll do:
- Define and own Ambience's security roadmap across product, cloud, corporate systems, and operations — balancing real risk reduction with company velocity
- Build, hire, and lead a high-performing security team (inheriting 2, growing to 4 by end of year, doubling by end of next year)
- Set the bar for application and infrastructure security by partnering with engineering to embed secure-by-default patterns into product design and shipping
- Own incident response end-to-end: detection, investigation, communication, and systemic fixes
- Interface with CISOs at large health systems to improve security posture and enable enterprise sales — turning security maturity into a revenue driver
- Lead security reviews, audits, and customer conversations (HIPAA, SOC 2) to build and maintain customer trust
- Oversee identity, device security, internal systems, and access controls as the company scales