Senior Product Security Engineer

Job Summary: As a Senior Product Security Engineer at PayPal, you'll help secure 439M accounts and $1.8T in annual payment volume by designing, building, and operating automated security scanners and developer guardrails across the software development lifecycle. Partnering with engineering, platform, and security teams, you'll identify and reduce risk across source code, open source dependencies, secrets, software supply chains, AI/LLM tools, and other developer workflows.

Our team's mission is to make secure development the easiest path for engineers, building scanners and guardrails that catch risk before software reaches production — spanning source code, dependencies, supply chains, AI/LLM tools, edge/CDN environments, and developer workflows. You'll turn security requirements into reliable automation that meets engineers where they build and deploy, improving detection quality and remediation ease while supporting delivery speed, with impact reaching adjacent teams. Job Description: Essential Responsibilities:

• Independently apply security best practices to enhance and optimize systems, ensuring robust protection and efficiency, while beginning to understand and align security solutions with business objectives.
• Partner with peers and internal teams to drive security initiatives, contribute to cross-functional projects, and at times co-lead efforts to strengthen security posture.
• Analyze and resolve security challenges by adapting standard processes and exploring alternative approaches to address complex threats.
• Influence the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the team through informed decision-making, with a potential impact on other teams.
• Collaborate with other engineers to gather and incorporate feedback, driving continuous improvements in security processes.

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