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Head of Security

New York, New York, New York, United States🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $250,000–$250,000🗓 2026-08-05 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building and owning the end-to-end security posture for a global fintech platform processing billions in payouts, including infrastructure, identity, incident response, and AI security.

Role type

Senior IC Head of Security (player-coach)

Builds

Production security infrastructure, incident response capabilities, and AI security controls for a global payments platform

Domain

Fintech / Payments / Cybersecurity

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Hands-on security experience at a scaled company, deep expertise in product/production security or SecOps, engineer's mindset (Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud), risk prioritization and judgment, team building and hiring

Preferred skills

Experience building a small security team, fintech or regulated-industry experience

Technologies

Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud

Responsibilities

Own security posture end-to-end and prioritize gaps, treat incident response as core, drive security as a cultural shift, lead AI-security posture, define and build the security team

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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