Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payments, build flexible billing models, and manage money movement. Backed by General Catalyst, Khosla and Kleiner Perkins.
About the role
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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Experience as a security engineer, detection engineer, or similarly hands-on engineer in a technically demanding environment
- Strong software-engineering skills in Python, Go, Ruby, or a similar language. You can build maintainable tooling and contribute directly to production fixes, not only one-off scripts
- 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
- A strong understanding of web, browser, infrastructure, or cloud security, with the ability to apply that understanding across a broad range of problems
- Good judgment under pressure, a methodical approach to investigation, and comfort working independently with agency despite incomplete information
More about this role
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
- 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...
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