Paxos

Application Security Engineer

Paxos

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $169,000 - $194,025 per year

About the role

  • Perform deep-dive security reviews of web applications, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Develop security-focused tools and libraries in Go, Java, or Ruby to assist developers in writing secure code.
  • Support our blockchain initiatives by identifying risks in L1/L2 integrations and smart contract interactions.
  • Manage and tune Web Application Firewalls (WAF) and cloud-native security controls.
  • Contribute to the security culture through developer training and participating in incident response when necessary.
  • Build and maintain the tooling that integrates security into our development lifecycle, moving from manual reviews to automated, scalable guardrails.
  • Partner with engineering teams during the design phase of new features (Threat Modeling) to identify risks before a single line of code is written.
  • Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of vulnerabilities, from discovery via internal audits or Bug Bounties to collaborating with engineers on "gold-standard" remediations.

Requirements

  • Proven ability to perform deep-dive manual security testing while also securing production-quality code.
  • Expert-level knowledge of OWASP Top 10, CWE, and API security vulnerabilities (Go, Java, or Ruby preferred).
  • Experience building and scaling security checks directly into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins).
  • Working knowledge of AWS/GCP security configurations, particularly IAM, VPCs, and WAF management.
Benefits
  • Equity and bonuses based on individual and company performance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
GoJavaRubysecurity testingAPI securityCI/CD pipelinesAWSGCPWeb Application Firewallsvulnerability management
Soft Skills
developer trainingincident responsecollaborationrisk identificationsecurity culture