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title: 'Security Engineer, Privy at Stripe'
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# Security Engineer, Privy at Stripe

- **Company:** Stripe
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-07-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://stripe.com/jobs/search?gh_jid=8073092

## 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](https://privy.io/blog/announcing-our-acquisition-by-stripe)

## 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](https://mcfunley.com/choose-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. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

## Minimum requirements

- 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.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical findings, risks, and recommended actions clearly to clients and internal stakeholders alike.
- A self-directed approach to work: you notice gaps, make progress through ambiguity, and reliably close the loop.

## Preferred qualifications

- Experience with AWS, GCP, or other cloud-security environments.
- Experience with detection engineering, security automation, incident-response tooling, or remediation pipelines.
- Bug-bounty experience, offensive-security exposure, or a strong attacker-minded approach to investigation.
- Experience with IAM, secrets management, secure production access, or secure CI/CD.
- Background in application security, infrastructure security, cryptography, or privacy engineering.
- Experience with fintech, payments, blockchain, or another diligence-forward financial product domain.
- Experience helping shape security operations, incident-response practices, vulnerability-management workflows, or a bug-bounty program.

## About Stripe

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Financial services / payments infrastructure
- Target customers: B2B – from startups to global enterprises (e.g., Le Monde, trucking companies)
- Mission: “Increase the GDP of the internet” by making online commerce easier and more accessible

## Products & Services
- **Stripe Payments**: Accept and optimise payments globally – online and in person; supports 135+ currencies and payment methods [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)
- **Stripe Billing**: Manage subscriptions, invoices, and recurring revenue; over 200 million active subscriptions managed [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)
- **Stripe Connect**: Embed payments into platforms and marketplaces
- **Stripe Atlas**: Incorporate a company, get everything needed to fundraise and start selling
- **Stripe Terminal**: In-person payments with customisable card readers
- **Stripe Issuing**: Create and manage a card issuing programme
- **Stripe Climate**: Automatically contribute a fraction of revenue to carbon removal

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $1.9 trillion in payments volume processed in 2025 [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed in provided sources
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Infrastructure underpins more than 1% of global GDP [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe)
  - Over 8,000 employees across 25+ offices worldwide [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs)
  - 99.999% historical uptime for Stripe services [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)
  - Deploys 10,000+ times per day while maintaining five 9s of reliability [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe)
  - 135+ currencies and payment methods supported [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale & Reliability**: Processes massive transaction volumes with 99.999% uptime – a level of trust few competitors match.
- **Developer‑First Experience**: Obsessive focus on API design, documentation, and ease of integration; “start with a blank screen, work until a product is ready, polish until exceptional” [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe).
- **Global Reach**: Supports 135+ currencies and payment methods, with local offices in 25+ cities to serve regional needs.
- **Network Effects**: The more businesses use Stripe, the more data and infrastructure advantages accrue, making it harder to switch.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI & Agentic Commerce**: Building economic infrastructure for AI, including monetisation through agentic commerce [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/).
- **Crypto & Stablecoins**: Enabling borderless money movement with stablecoins and crypto [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/).
- **Platform Expansion**: Continuing to add financial tools (billing, issuing, terminal, climate) that work individually or together.
- **Globalisation**: Deepening presence in markets like Japan, India, and Latin America.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Intense and kind” – high expectations paired with a supportive, transparent environment. Weekly all‑hands with senior leaders; decisions based on idea quality, not seniority [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe).
- **Growth & Ownership**: “Promotions are tied to demonstrated impact, not tenure.” Employees get substantial responsibility early, often working outside their domain [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs).
- **Work Model**: Hybrid/remote‑friendly – two main HQs (San Francisco & Dublin) plus 25+ offices, and many Stripes work from home or coworking spaces [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs).
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive medical, mental health, financial advisory, family planning, and parental leave. Education team provides onboarding and ongoing expert‑led courses [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/en-gi/jobs/benefits).
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Employee‑created resource groups (Stripe Communities), accommodations for disabilities, and a commitment to equal opportunity [stripe.com](https://stripe.com/jobs).

## Sources
1. [stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe](https://stripe.com/jobs/life-at-stripe)
2. [stripe.com/jobs](https://stripe.com/jobs)
3. [stripe.com/](https://stripe.com/)
4. [stripe.com/jobs/search](https://stripe.com/jobs/search)
5. [stripe.com/en-gi/jobs/benefits](https://stripe.com/en-gi/jobs/benefits)

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