Security Engineer — Build Secure Crypto Infra

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

Job summary

Privy, part of the Stripe ecosystem, is seeking a Security Engineer to strengthen a rapidly growing platform across security operations, incident response, and infrastructure security. You will work with cryptography, production teams, and security specialists to translate expertise into practical, durable protections for developers and users.

The role emphasizes ownership, fast iteration, and thoughtful risk management.

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.
• Experience investigating security signals, incidents, vulnerabilities through to resolution.
• 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.
• Participate in on-call rotation, triage alerts, and support vulnerability workflows.
• Build and maintain production-quality tooling to reduce manual work.
• Lead investigations into suspected security events, gathering evidence and coordinating response.
• Identify recurring toil and engineer durable solutions to scale.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to assess security risks and tradeoffs.
• Contribute across Privy’s security surface area to build broad context and deep expertise.

Skills

Python

Go

Ruby

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

Privy, part of the Stripe ecosystem, is seeking a Security Engineer to strengthen a rapidly growing platform across security operations, incident response, and infrastructure security. You will work with cryptography, production teams, and security specialists to translate expertise into practical, durable protections for developers and users.

The role emphasizes ownership, fast iteration, and thoughtful risk management.