Senior Platform Security Engineer (SOC 2 / HIPAA) | GovTech

Company Overview:

Our client is a venture-backed govtech startup that helps families find the benefit programs they qualify for, apply to several at once and stay enrolled as rules change. State agencies, Medicaid managed care organizations and employers pay for the platform. It now runs eligibility checks and applications across federal, state and local programs. Its customers are highly regulated, so security and privacy shape how the team builds. The team is small and fully remote across the U.S.

Your Role:

• This is not a "review and advise" security role. You build the controls yourself.

• State and federal buyers are asking for stricter security standards. Security and privacy are now core parts of the platform, not side projects.

• You'll be the senior engineer and tech lead for the platform's security, privacy and compliance controls, and the technical partner to the Trust Product Manager. The PM owns requirements, governance and the roadmap. You own the architecture and the working systems.

• You'll start with the engineering behind the existing SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA controls. Recurring manual work like access reviews and evidence collection moves into code.

• Then you'll lead the technical side of the company's NIST 800-series alignment..

What you'll do

• Identity & Production Access (primary focus)

• Design how people and services sign in, what each role is allowed to do, and where secrets are stored.

• Decide how engineers get into production and who approves that access.

• Write the design and the code, and agree on the requirements with the Trust PM.

• Isolation & Audit Logging

• Keep environments, tenants, workloads and sensitive data separate from each other.

• Build audit logs and change history that show who did what, in a form outside auditors can test.

• SOC 2 Type II & HIPAA Controls

• Keep the technical controls working, and move access reviews and evidence pulls from manual steps into code.

• Take every technical audit finding through to closure, and work with auditors on their tests.

• Secure Delivery

• Build the release path in CI/CD and infrastructure as code, with approvals before anything reaches production.

• Publish shared modules and reference implementations so other teams get the controls by default.

• Threat Modeling & Review