[Remote] Sr Data Protection Cryptography Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HealthEquity is dedicated to saving and improving lives by empowering healthcare consumers. As a Senior Data Protection Cryptography Engineer, you will play a crucial role in securing sensitive healthcare and financial data, particularly focusing on database security and cryptography initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement database activity monitoring solutions (e.g., Imperva or similar)
- Monitor and analyze database access patterns at a granular level — including service accounts, APIs, and AI-driven access
- Detect anomalous or risky behavior, such as unusual access frequency, new access paths, or unexpected usage patterns
- Build alerting and controls to help identify misuse, abuse, or runaway automation
- Help answer critical questions around who is accessing sensitive data, what they’re accessing, and why
- Partner with teams evaluating or implementing column-level encryption
- Apply practical knowledge of cryptography concepts, including:
- Tokenization and format-preserving encryption (FPE)
- Key management solutions such as HashiCorp Vault or Thales
- Support and guide encryption initiatives, even when implementation is shared across teams
- Help define secure patterns for database access, including certificate-based trust
- Partner with Identity and Database teams to improve how access is authenticated, managed, and audited
- Support secure service account usage and access boundaries
- Work closely with data discovery, database administration, application, and AI teams
- Bring structure to complex problems by prioritizing risk, sequencing work, and driving execution
- Operate as a hands-on engineer who turns ambiguity into action
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent practical experience
- Experience building or operating database security or hardening solutions in production
- Hands-on experience with database activity monitoring tools (Imperva or similar)
- Working knowledge of cryptography concepts, including encryption, tokenization, or FPE
- Strong understanding of how applications, APIs, service accounts, and AI workloads interact with databases
- Ability to prioritize, execute, and drive outcomes in complex, evolving environments
- Experience with certificate management or PKI
- Background securing sensitive or regulated data environments
- Experience partnering closely with database administrators or data platform teams
Benefits
- Medical, d ental, and v ision
- HSA contribution and match
- Dependent c are FSA match
- Uncapped p aid t ime o ff
- Paid p arental l eave
- 401(k) match
- Personal and healthcare financial literacy programs
- Ongoing e ducation& t uition a ssistance
- Gym and f itness r eimbursement
- Wellness p rogram incentives
- HealthEquity covers all required travel and accommodations
- HealthEquity is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to team members with qualifying disabilities
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