Security Engineer, Privy

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

Who we are

About Privy

Our mission is to make privacy and user ownership the default online. To do so, we build simple, flexible APIs and tools for developers that make it easy to build new products on crypto rails.

Privy owns the abstractions and infrastructure layer above wallets, integrating across chains, third-party providers, and Stripe products like Treasury and Link. We get to solve hard technical problems while leveraging Stripe's distribution to reach customers like Ramp, Klarna, Deel, Kraken, Hyperliquid, and Fomo - powering experiences for both mainstream users and crypto natives.

Learn more about Privy:Privy and Stripe: Bringing crypto to everyone

About the team

Engineering at Privy is distinguished by:

• High urgency: Shipping very small iterations, very fast, to learn very quickly.
• Product taste: Our customers are developers, and to build effective products for them requires technical knowledge - you will often be "the PM".
• Security mindset: A great portion of our product is trust. While we have a dedicated security team, every engineer brings security to their designs from the start.

In practice, we use boring technology like Node, React, and AWS so we can focus our engineering energy entirely on pushing the boundaries of Privy's core product, e.g. through hardware enclaves, multi-region low latency APIs, and blockchain abstractions that are accessible to mainstream developers.

What you’ll do

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

This is not a role limited to reviewing logs and designs or simply escalating findings. You will carry real ownership for the day-to-day work that protects Privy: investigating anomalies, improving security workflows, and building the automation that makes the team faster and more effective over time. You'll work closely with engineers across Privy and alongside specialists in cryptography, application security, offensive security, and infrastructure security to turn security expertise into practical, durable outcomes.

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 Privy's security 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 lower-complexity 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.

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. The preferred qualifications are a bonus,