Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Security roles in SaaS are increasingly judged by their ability to translate vulnerability data into engineering decisions, not by producing reports. This Vulnerability and Exposure Management Engineer position sits squarely in that shift, focusing on automation and signal quality across application, cloud, and infrastructure surfaces. In a product-led, data-heavy SaaS environment, that emphasis reflects how modern platforms manage risk at scale while keeping delivery workflows intact.
For a long-term SaaS security career, the work builds durable strengths in prioritisation, telemetry, and workflow integration. Experience normalising inputs from multiple tools, creating engineer-facing dashboards, and embedding controls into CI/CD maps well to how many SaaS companies operationalise AppSec and cloud security. The role also touches regulated delivery expectations through frameworks like NIST and FedRAMP, which can broaden a security engineer’s ability to pair technical remediation with evidence-driven assurance.
This role is best suited to practitioners who prefer building systems over running queues, and who enjoy partnering with product and engineering teams to drive practical outcomes. It aligns well with engineers who can script, reason about exploitability beyond severity scores, and stay effective when priorities evolve across a large platform surface area.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. Guided by our mission to make the world’s health data secure, accessible and actionable, we provide critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem - including providers, health plans, researchers, and life sciences companies. From fulfilling a single patient’s request for their medical records to powering the AI revolution in healthcare, Datavanters are building the future of how data is connected and used to improve health.
By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a driven and highly collaborative team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare.
What We’re Looking For
A security engineer to help build and operate an engineering-driven vulnerability and exposure management program, focused on turning vulnerability data into actionable signals embedded in modern engineering workflows. This role emphasizes automation, practical risk reduction, and hands-on execution across application, cloud, and infrastructure environments. It is not primarily a ticket-tracking or audit-administration role, but a technical role contributing to scalable solutions.
What You Will Do
- Contribute to the design, implementation, and operation of Datavant’s vulnerability and exposure management capabilities, with a focus on reducing real exploit risk.
- Build and enhance automation and workflows that ingest, normalize, and prioritize vulnerability signals across multiple sources.
- Develop and improve engineer-facing dashboards and integrations that help teams understand and act on vulnerability risk.
- Work with product and engineering teams to assess vulnerability findings, explain exploitability and impact, and support practical remediation or mitigation approaches.
- Help embed vulnerability signals into existing engineering workflows (CI/CD, PRs, backlogs) to improve visibility and adoption.
- Support validation of remediation efforts to ensure exposure is meaningfully reduced.
- Assist in translating compliance and control requirements into scalable technical implementations.
- Support FedRAMP and other assessments by validating technical evidence and remediation outcomes.
- Execute technical projects that improve vulnerability visibility, prioritization, and risk reduction.
- Contribute to improving processes, tooling, and automation within the vulnerability management program.
What You Need To Succeed
- Solid technical experience in vulnerability management and application security, with hands-on exposure to assessing and prioritizing vulnerability findings.
- Demonstrated ability to build or automate technical workflows using scripting or programming languages such as Python or Go.
- Experience working with application, cloud, or container security in AWS and/or Azure environments.
- Working knowledge of security controls and compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST, CIS, FedRAMP), with the ability to apply requirements in practical engineering contexts.
- Ability to reason about exploitability, exposure, and impact beyond severity scores.
- Experience collaborating with engineering teams to support remediation efforts.
- Clear communication skills and ability to explain technical risk to varied audiences.
- Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced environments with evolving priorities.
- Foundational understanding of how vulnerability management fits within broader security and engineering functions.
- Experience with commercial security tooling (e.g., SAST, SCA, cloud security platforms) and ability to interpret tool outputs critically.
What Helps You Stand Out
- Experience building custom scripts, automations, or lightweight data pipelines to improve vulnerability visibility or prioritization.
- Exposure to highly regulated environments (e.g., healthcare, FedRAMP Moderate/High) and participation in technical audit preparation.
- Experience integrating vulnerability tooling into CI/CD pipelines or engineering workflows.
- Familiarity with cloud security platforms (e.g., Wiz) or security data tooling (e.g., Snowflake, Sigma).
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code) to accelerate security automation or analysis.
We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.
At Datavant our total rewards strategy powers a high-growth, high-performance, health technology company that rewards our employees for transforming health care through creating industry-defining data logistics products and services.
The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job.
The estimated total cash compensation range for this role is:
$152,000—$185,000 USD
To ensure the safety of patients and staff, many of our clients require post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot, Tdap, COVID-19, etc. Any requests to be exempted from these requirements will be reviewed by Datavant Human Resources and determined on a case-by-case basis. Depending on the state in which you will be working, exemptions may be available on the basis of disability, medical contraindications to the vaccine or any of its components, pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions, and/or religion.
This job is not eligible for employment sponsorship.
Datavant is committed to a work environment free from job discrimination. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status. To learn more about our commitment, please review our EEO Commitment Statement here. Know Your Rights, explore the resources available through the EEOC for more information regarding your legal rights and protections. In addition, Datavant does not and will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay.
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