$240,000 – $310,000/yr

Principal Security Engineer

United StatesUnited Statesfull-timelead
EngineeringSecurity Engineer
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Quick Summary

Key Responsibilities

Serve as the ultimate technical authority for security at Candid. While you won’t be managing HR lines, you will set the technical bar, mentor engineers,

Requirements Summary

Level up our 200+ employees. Through threat modeling, secure coding practices, and cross-functional collaboration, you will embed a security-first mindset across every team from engineering to legal.

Technical Tools
EngineeringSecurity Engineer

You will be the foundational technical pillar for security at Candid Health. As our first Principal Security Engineer, you won't just be managing a compliance checklist—you will architect, build, and scale the technical systems that protect our customers and their patients.

Operating as a high-influence individual contributor, you will partner directly with Engineering and Product leadership to ensure we ship features rapidly while maintaining an ironclad promise of data integrity. This is a role for a heavy-hitting technical leader who wants to set the security blueprint for a fast-growing health-tech platform.

Responsibilities

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Requirements

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We spend at least as much time with our coworkers as we do with our closest friends + family - if we intend to do the most important + challenging work of our lives, it’s important that these folks energize us, support us, inspire us, and push us to do our best work. This is what you can expect of your teammates at Candid (in no particular order):

  • We put our customers first

  • We take care of each other and ourselves

  • We anchor on outcomes and work relentlessly and creatively to achieve them

  • We collectively prioritize building a diverse and inclusive workspace

  • We believe humility is our greatest strength

  • We are candid, kind, and committed

  • We strive to be the most prepared person in the room

  • We are truth seekers

 

Pay Transparency
The estimated starting annual salary range for this position is $240,000 - $310,000 USD. The listed range is a guideline from Pave data, and the actual base salary may be modified based on factors including job-related skills, experience/qualifications, interview performance, market data, etc. Total compensation for this position may also include equity, sales incentives (for sales roles), and employee benefits. Given Candid Health’s funding and size, we heavily value the potential upside from equity in our compensation package. Further note that Candid Health has minimal hierarchy and titles, but has broad ranges of experience represented within roles.

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job
United States
On-site within the country
Who can apply
US

About this job

Pay per year
$240,000–$310,000 a year
50% above the $183,375 median for Security Engineer jobs on Jobera (592 salaries).
Who can apply
United States
Posted
134 days ago
Employer
has 36 open jobs on Jobera.

Listing Details

Posted
June 8, 2026
First seen
June 8, 2026
Last seen
October 20, 2026

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Days active
133
Repost count
0
Trust Level
39%
Scored at
October 20, 2026

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Principal Security Engineer$240k–$310k