Engineering Manager, Product Security at Paxos

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About Paxos </strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Today’s financial infrastructure is archaic, expensive, inefficient and risky — supporting a system that leaves out more people than it lets in. So we’re rebuilding it.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re on a mission to open the world’s financial system to everyone by enabling the instant movement of any asset, any time, in a trustworthy way. For over a decade, we’ve built blockchain infrastructure that tokenizes, custodies, trades and settles assets for the world’s leading financial institutions, like Mastercard, Visa, Robinhood, and PayPal. </p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About the team </strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">The Product Security team is responsible for keeping Paxos’ cloud-native platform secure, resilient, and compliant as we scale. We partner closely across all engineering teams to design, build, and operate secure-by-default applications in Kubernetes that power mission-critical payments, stablecoin, and brokerage products. The team owns core security capabilities of our platform like identity and access management in AWS, network segmentation, secrets management, inner-service communication, vulnerability management, and code scanning (SAST and DAST).</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>About the role</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">As the Engineering Manager, Product Security at Paxos, you will lead a team of security engineers responsible for securing our AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure end-to-end and ensuring applications are built and maintained safely. You’ll combine deep hands-on security engineering experience with strong people leadership to design secure cloud and application defaults, harden critical services, and build automated guardrails that enable product teams to move fast safely. You will drive the technical direction for cloud and application security,lead high-pressure incident response when needed, and grow a high-performing team that treats “security as an enabler,” not a bottleneck.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What you’ll do </strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lead, coach, and develop a team of cloud and application security engineers, including setting clear goals, providing ongoing feedback, and running performance reviews.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own the security posture of our cloud environment, including AWS account topology, access management, inner-service communication, network segmentation, and ongoing monitoring (e.g., Cloud Posture tools)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Partner across the engineering and security organization to embed security into application designs, CI/CD pipelines, and influence roadmaps of other teams.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Establish and scale automated guardrails for infrastructure as code/policy as code, SAST, and DAST to reduce manual toil.</p></li><li><p style="min