Description
As a Staff Product Security Engineer, AI Security at PayPal, you'll help protect 439M active accounts and $1.8T in annual payment volume by leading technical work across three areas: securing AI-assisted software development, protecting AI-enabled products and agentic systems, and applying AI to improve vulnerability detection and remediation.
You'll partner with Security Architecture, engineering, product, and platform teams to turn AI security requirements into scalable controls and enforcement across PayPal's products and business units. This is a hands-on IC role with cross-organizational scope: you'll help set technical direction, lead delivery, and mentor engineers while staying involved in architecture reviews, control design, and implementation.
Responsibilities:
- Leverage specialized security expertise to identify and resolve complex security issues, recommending best practices and determining new approaches that have an impact on broader security operations, while aligning security strategies with business priorities.
- Partner across teams and key stakeholders to drive security initiatives, leading and solutioning complex projects and programs to strengthen overall security posture.
- Apply advanced analytical skills and sound judgment to solve security challenges, considering diverse perspectives and innovative solutions.
- Directly contribute to improvements within the security domain and occasionally beyond, ensuring decisions lead to meaningful enhancements in security practices.
- Leverage relationships across teams, both within and outside of security, to influence initiatives and integrate feedback into security processes.
Requirements:
- 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Hands-on familiarity with application security tools (SAST, DAST, SCA, WAF, Burp Suite).
- Strong programming experience in at least one language such as Ruby, Java, Python, JavaScript, or Swift.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud vendor (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Strong understanding of authentication and authorization protocols (OAuth 2.0, SAML).
Benefits:
- Comprehensive, choice-based programs to support all aspects of personal wellbeing,physical, emotional, and financial.
- Generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.
- Balanced hybrid work model offering 3 days in the office and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace.