Security Engineer: Automation & Incident Response

Electric Capital; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 295,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus potential

401(k)

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Privy is seeking a Security Engineer to protect a rapidly growing platform. You will investigate anomalies, manage security operations, and build tooling with engineers across teams. The role spans cryptography, application, and infrastructure security to deliver durable, scalable outcomes.

You will join a team that values security-minded collaboration, production-grade tooling, and practical risk tradeoffs to move quickly and safely in a dynamic crypto-enabled product environment.

Qualifications

• Proficient in software engineering with Python/Go/Ruby.
• Hands-on security engineering in a demanding environment.
• Experience investigating security signals, incidents, vulnerabilities, or suspicious activity.
• Familiarity with security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, or related workflows.
• Strong understanding of web, browser, infrastructure, or cloud security.

Responsibilities

• Own security engineering work end to end: investigate alerts, findings, anomalies, and security requests; identify root causes; drive remediation; document outcomes.

Skills

Python

Go

Ruby

Security engineering

Incident response

Web security

Communication

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

Privy is seeking a Security Engineer to protect a rapidly growing platform. You will investigate anomalies, manage security operations, and build tooling with engineers across teams. The role spans cryptography, application, and infrastructure security to deliver durable, scalable outcomes.

You will join a team that values security-minded collaboration, production-grade tooling, and practical risk tradeoffs to move quickly and safely in a dynamic crypto-enabled product environment.