Security Engineer: Automation & Incident Response

Stripe; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Privy is seeking a Security Engineer to strengthen the security of a rapidly growing platform. You will work hands-on across security operations, incident response, and infrastructure security, turning expertise into durable, practical outcomes.

You’ll collaborate with cryptography, application security, and infrastructure teams to turn security findings into scalable defenses and automated processes. This role emphasizes ownership, quick learning, and strong communication.

Qualifications

• Experience as a security engineer in a technically demanding environment.
• Strong software-engineering skills in Python, Go, Ruby, or a similar language; ability to build maintainable tooling and contribute to production fixes.
• Experience investigating security signals, incidents, vulnerabilities, suspicious activity, or other ambiguous technical problems through to resolution.
• Familiarity with security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, detection engineering, access reviews, or related operational-security workflows.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical findings, risks, and recommended actions clearly to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Self-directed approach to work: identify gaps, progress through ambiguity, and reliably close the loop.

Responsibilities

• Own security engineering work end to end: investigate alerts, findings, anomalies, and security requests; identify root causes; drive remediation; and clearly document outcomes.
• Participate in on-call rotation, helping respond to incidents, triage alerts, support vulnerability workflows, complete access reviews, and handle security escalations.
• Build and maintain production-quality tooling that reduces manual work, including alert enrichment, automated triage and routing, remediation workflows, access-review automation, and detection improvements.
• Lead focused investigations into suspected security events or compromises, gathering evidence methodically and coordinating the appropriate response.
• Proactively identify recurring sources of operational toil and engineer durable solutions that improve the team’s speed, consistency, and ability to scale.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to assess security risks, review designs and implementation plans, and make practical security tradeoffs to deliver quickly with quality and soundness.
• Contribute across Privy’s application, infrastructure, cloud, and product-security surface area, developing broad context while building deeper expertise over time.

Skills

Python

Go

Ruby

Security engineering

Incident response

Communication skills

Autonomy

Tools

AWS

GCP

CI/CD security tooling

Job description

Privy is seeking a Security Engineer to strengthen the security of a rapidly growing platform. You will work hands-on across security operations, incident response, and infrastructure security, turning expertise into durable, practical outcomes.

You’ll collaborate with cryptography, application security, and infrastructure teams to turn security findings into scalable defenses and automated processes. This role emphasizes ownership, quick learning, and strong communication.