Product Security Engineer
At a glance
Mid-level Application & Product Security role at Tempo. Remote, United States · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $120,250–$171,250 across the United States.
Tempo has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.
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What you'll do
- Build security tools for endpoints, software dependencies, infrastructure and applications
- Find and fix security weaknesses in live systems and development pipelines
- Run incident response from initial assessment through containment, fixes and post-incident reviews
- Work with engineers on design reviews and day-to-day security decisions
- Set practical security routines and strengthen safeguards around builds, dependencies and releases
What you bring
- Five to eight years in hands-on product or application security engineering
- You have established security practices in a company of roughly one hundred to five hundred people, or a comparable setting
- You can code and have built security tools, automation and detection
- You have led serious incidents through response and follow-up, and know infrastructure and application security
Who this fits
This suits a mid-level security engineer who can build with autonomy and work directly with engineering. The role is remote in the United States and covers both application and infrastructure security.
From the employer
Tempo is a layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoins and real-world payments, born from Stripe’s experience in global payments and Paradigm’s expertise in crypto tech.
Tempo’s payment-first design provides a scalable, low-cost predictable backbone that meets the needs of high-volume payment use cases. Our goal is to move money reliably, cheaply, and at scale. Our north star is simplicity for users: fintechs, traditional banks, merchants, platforms, and anyone else looking to move their payments into the 21st century.
We're building Tempo with design partners who are global leaders in AI, e-commerce, and financial services: Anthropic, Coupang, Deutsche Bank, DoorDash, Mercury, Nubank, OpenAI, Revolut, Shopify, Standard Chartered, Visa, and more.
We’re a team of crypto-optimists, building the infrastructure needed to bring real, substantial economic flows onchain. We like to move fast and swing for the fences — join us!
The Role
You'll be Tempo's first dedicated product security engineer, standing up application and infrastructure security from the ground floor. You'll build real tooling, respond to real incidents, and work directly with engineering to secure systems that help onboard the largest enterprises onchain.
Responsibilities
Build and deploy security tooling across endpoint management, supply-chain security, infrastructure, and application layers
Identify and remediate security gaps across Tempo's production systems and development pipelines
Lead incident response end-to-end: triage, containment, remediation, and post-mortems
Partner with engineering on secure design reviews and operational security decisions
Establish repeatable, practical security practices for how systems are built, deployed, monitored, and secured
Improve supply-chain security across dependencies, build systems, and deployment artifacts
Scale application-security coverage as Tempo's infrastructure and product surface grow
Operate with autonomy, build what's needed without waiting for large-company support structures
Qualifications
5–8 years of hands-on product or application security engineering experience
Track record building security practices at a company in the 100–500 person range, or similar environments with limited existing security infrastructure
Hands-on coding ability: you build security tooling, automation, and detection, not just recommendations
Deep incident-response experience including high-severity situations owned end-to-end
Strong infrastructure security knowledge: hosting environments, network security, monitoring, and securing system integrations
Application security fundamentals: threat modeling, secure code review, vulnerability management, supply-chain security
Comfortable communicating technical security decisions to engineers with real depth and specificity
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