Security Engineer: Build Secure, Automated Crypto APIs

EngineersOfAI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Privy is seeking a Security Engineer to help keep a rapidly growing platform secure through hands-on investigations, operational ownership, and building real code to solve real problems. You will work across security operations, incident response, application and infrastructure security, and internal tooling.

This role involves turning security expertise into durable, practical outcomes and collaborating with cryptography, cloud, and engineering teams to improve the security posture of Privy.

Qualifications

• Experience in security operations, incident response, and secure software development.
• Ability to own security investigations end-to-end and drive remediation.
• Experience partnering with product & engineering to assess risks and make security tradeoffs.

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 security on-call rotation, triage alerts, support vulnerability workflows, and perform access reviews.
• Build and maintain production-quality tooling to reduce manual work, including alert enrichment and remediation workflows.
• Lead investigations into suspected security events, gathering evidence and coordinating responses.

Skills

Security engineering

Incident response

Cloud security

Automation

Tools

Node.js

React

AWS

Job description

Privy is seeking a Security Engineer to help keep a rapidly growing platform secure through hands-on investigations, operational ownership, and building real code to solve real problems. You will work across security operations, incident response, application and infrastructure security, and internal tooling.

This role involves turning security expertise into durable, practical outcomes and collaborating with cryptography, cloud, and engineering teams to improve the security posture of Privy.