# Senior Staff Product Security Engineer, AI Security

**Company**: PayPal
**Location**: Chicago, IL
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $178,500.00 - $265,100.00 Annually
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

As a Senior Staff Product Security Engineer, AI Security at PayPal, you'll help protect 439M active accounts and $1.8T in annual payment volume by leading Product Security engineering 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 translate AI security requirements into scalable controls, testing, and enforcement across PayPal's products and business units. Through hands-on technical leadership and mentorship, you'll turn emerging risks into durable capabilities and measurable risk reduction.

**Responsibilities:**

- Recognized as a security expert, independently resolving the most complex security challenges and providing strategic direction on problem resolution across the security domain.

- Define methods and procedures for new or special assignments, collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive security initiatives that align with business needs and objectives.

- Lead complex, high-impact security projects of diverse scope, applying an in-depth understanding of business trends and security challenges to develop innovative solutions.

- Possess a keen awareness of the broader impact of decisions, with initiatives often leading to enterprise-wide improvements that enhance security practices and operational efficiency.

**Requirements:**

- 8+ 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 (Ruby, Java, Python, JavaScript, or Swift)

- Knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, and version control systems such as Git

- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud vendor (AWS, Azure, GCP)

- Strong understanding of authentication and authorization protocols (OAuth 2.0, SAML)

- Deep knowledge of application security vulnerabilities, secure software development practices, and technical controls to identify, prevent, and remediate software risk

**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

- Resources to create financial security and support your mental health

## Skills

### Required
- AI Security
- Application Security
- Cloud Security
- Programming

### Nice to have
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Git
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- OAuth 2.0
- SAML

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