Security Engineer - Build Secure Crypto APIs & Infra

Stripe; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Privy is seeking a Security Engineer to help keep a rapidly growing platform secure. You will engage in hands-on investigation, operational ownership, and building real code to solve real problems across security operations, incident response, and infrastructure security.

You will work with cryptography, application security, and security engineering specialists to translate expertise into practical, durable outcomes and ensure robust security practices across Privy's product suite.

Qualifications

• Experience as a security engineer or similar hands-on role in a technically demanding environment.
• Strong software-engineering skills in Python, Go, Ruby, or similar language and ability to contribute to production fixes.

Responsibilities

• Own security engineering work end to end: investigate alerts, findings, anomalies, and security requests; drive remediation; document outcomes.
• Participate in on-call rotation; respond to incidents, triage alerts, support vulnerability workflows, and access reviews.
• Build and maintain production-quality tooling to reduce manual work, including alert enrichment, automated triage and routing, remediation workflows, and detection improvements.
• Lead focused investigations into suspected security events, gather evidence, and coordinate response.
• Identify recurring sources of operational toil and engineer durable solutions to improve speed and scale.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to assess risks and design secure systems.

Skills

Python

Go

Ruby

Incident response

Vulnerability management

Cloud security

Security tooling

Security operations

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

Privy is seeking a Security Engineer to help keep a rapidly growing platform secure. You will engage in hands-on investigation, operational ownership, and building real code to solve real problems across security operations, incident response, and infrastructure security.

You will work with cryptography, application security, and security engineering specialists to translate expertise into practical, durable outcomes and ensure robust security practices across Privy's product suite.