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.
About the role
We are looking for a Product Security Engineer to join our team and act as a champion for security within our product engineering organization. You will be responsible for ensuring our products are designed, developed, and maintained with security as a core pillar. You will work in partnership with development squads to perform threat modeling, guide secure architecture decisions, and automate security gates in our CI/CD pipelines.
What they're looking for
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in software engineering or security engineering, specifically focusing on product security or application security
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript)
- Deep understanding of modern web/cloud architecture (e.g., APIs, Microservices, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Familiarity with the OWASP Top 10 and common exploitation techniques
- Collaboration: Proven ability to influence and collaborate with engineering teams without hindering development velocity
- Problem Solving: Strong analytical skills to evaluate complex systems and design innovative, practical security solutions
More about this role
In simple terms, healthcare in the U.S. has a massive, invisible problem behind the scenes: getting doctors paid by insurance companies is notoriously complicated. Insurance rules are constantly changing, and every bill (or "claim") requires mountains of paperwork. When mistakes happen, bills get rejected, patients end up with unexpected charges, and healthcare providers waste billions of dollars and countless hours on administrative bureaucracy instead of focusing on patient care.
That is where Candid Health steps in. Founded by former Palantir leaders who experienced these pain points firsthand, we are building the modern financial backbone for American healthcare. Instead of relying on decades-old legacy software or attempting to patch broken systems with superficial tools, we've rebuilt the underlying infrastructure from the ground up.
Our core product is an autonomous Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) platform . Powered by AI agents and a configurable rules engine, the platform unifies clinical, billing, and insurance data into a single smart system. It acts like an intelligent, automated back-office that handles complex medical claims from start to finish—submitting them...
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