# Principal Security Engineer at Candid Health

- Company: Candid Health
- What the company does: Candid Health is your source of truth for revenue cycle management—track claims end-to-end, automate fixes, unlock insights, and scale digital health payments. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.joincandidhealth.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco (CA), Denver (CO), New York (NY)
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $240K to $310K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/candidhealth/a916ce1b-a86b-49d8-ab44-21beab4d502c
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/candid-health-principal-security-engineer/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- An Elite Technical Leader: You have 10+ years of experience in security engineering, with a proven track record of architecting secure systems across complex technical surface areas in both startup and scaled enterprise environments
- A Practitioner, Not Just a Theorist: You have driven security outcomes at scale. You know how to balance pragmatism with bulletproof defense-in-depth, and you excel at navigating the technical trade-offs required in a fast-moving engineering organization
- A Security Expert: You possess a deep, native understanding of sensitive, highly regulated datasets and the unique, high-stakes challenges of handling protected critical information

Tags: Engineering