Lead Product Security Engineer — On-Chain Payments

Tempo; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Tempo in San Francisco is hiring the company’s first dedicated product security engineer to stand up security from the ground floor. You will build tooling, respond to real incidents, and work directly with engineering to secure systems that onboard the largest enterprises onchain.

You’ll lead end-to-end incident response, drive secure design reviews, and establish practical security practices across deployment, monitoring, and supply chains, scaling coverage as Tempo grows.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of hands-on product or application security engineering experience.
• Hands-on coding ability: you build security tooling, automation, and detection, not just recommendations.
• Deep incident-response experience including high-severity situations owned end-to-end.
• Strong infrastructure security knowledge: hosting environments, network security, monitoring, and securing system integrations.
• Application security fundamentals: threat modeling, secure code review, vulnerability management, supply-chain security.
• Comfortable communicating technical security decisions to engineers with real depth and specificity.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy security tooling across endpoint management, supply-chain security, infrastructure, and application layers
• Identify and remediate security gaps across Tempo's production systems and development pipelines
• Lead incident response end-to-end: triage, containment, remediation, and post-mortems
• Partner with engineering on secure design reviews and operational security decisions
• Establish repeatable, practical security practices for how systems are built, deployed, monitored, and secured
• Improve supply-chain security across dependencies, build systems, and deployment artifacts
• Scale application-security coverage as Tempo's infrastructure and product surface grow
• Operate with autonomy, build what's needed without waiting for large-company support structures

Skills

Security engineering

Incident response

Coding ability

Security automation

Communication skills

Infrastructure security

Tools

Security tooling

Automation scripts

Vulnerability tools

Job description

Tempo in San Francisco is hiring the company’s first dedicated product security engineer to stand up security from the ground floor. You will build tooling, respond to real incidents, and work directly with engineering to secure systems that onboard the largest enterprises onchain.

You’ll lead end-to-end incident response, drive secure design reviews, and establish practical security practices across deployment, monitoring, and supply chains, scaling coverage as Tempo grows.