Senior/Staff Backend Engineer (HIPAA Compliance)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior/Staff Backend Engineer focused on HIPAA compliance

• Location: Mountain View, CA (onsite 3 days/week)

Description

You will assess the existing platform to identify where regulated data flows, is stored, and is exposed across services. You will design and implement encryption at rest and in transit, access controls, audit logging, and database/service-level data-handling changes across multiple services and platforms. You’ll also remediate legacy customer data added before the compliance changes and translate HIPAA requirements into practical engineering standards, including SOPs and documentation for a non-medical company.

Responsibilities

• Identify regulated data flows, storage, and exposure points across services

• Implement HIPAA-aligned technical safeguards: encryption at rest/in transit, access controls, and audit logging

• Apply compliance changes across multiple services and platforms

• Create and execute a remediation approach for legacy stored data

• Translate HIPAA requirements into engineering standards and help author SOPs/documentation

• Work independently with minimal hand-holding while partnering with a small team

Requirements

• Senior, Senior Staff, or Architect-level hands-on backend engineering with database and systems focus

• Direct experience making a non-healthcare product or platform HIPAA compliant

• Strong understanding of HIPAA requirements for product safeguards, including PHI handling, encryption, access, and audit controls, plus breach and retention considerations

• Deep backend experience with data stores, service architecture, and large-scale data migration/remediation

• Experience with multi-service SaaS / ERP / accounting / payroll / HR (business-software platforms such as NetSuite-like systems)

• Ability to ramp quickly from documentation and self-directed learning

Benefits

• Opportunity to bring a non-healthcare product into HIPAA compliance end-to-end, including legacy remediation

• Work closely with a small team with autonomy and limited hand-holding

• Onsite collaboration in Mountain View, CA (3 days/week)