Top Fintech Cybersecurity Jobs in New York City, NY

Lead execution of Motive’s Security and Privacy Roadmap and high-priority risk-reduction programs. Coordinate cross-functional teams, manage dependencies, capacity, milestones, risks, and quarterly planning. Develop program reviews, dashboards, RAID logs, and board-ready updates grounded in verified evidence. Translate security objectives and technical details into measurable business outcomes, facilitate executive decisions, and improve program governance and control effectiveness.

Build production security tooling and infrastructure using Terraform, Bash, Go, and Python. Partner with product engineers to design secure features, review Terraform and IAM configurations, automate security workflows, and advise teams on pragmatic vulnerability remediation. The role emphasizes developer enablement, scalable security libraries and tools, cloud security, containerization, and responsible AI use.

Lead cloud security strategy and hands-on execution across AWS environments. Own CNAPP and CSPM capabilities, improve IAM and container security, build infrastructure-as-code guardrails, conduct architecture reviews and threat modeling, support detection and incident response, and drive remediation programs. Establish a multi-year cloud security roadmap, influence engineering priorities, mentor teammates, and partner with platform, infrastructure, SOC, and product engineering teams.

Conduct manual penetration tests and secure code reviews across web applications, APIs, AWS infrastructure, and AI systems. Develop AI-assisted security tooling, test LLM applications and agents, triage SAST findings, tune detection rules, and support security reviews before production. Communicate vulnerabilities, risks, and remediation priorities to engineering teams while helping establish the company’s application and AI security testing standards.

Leads enterprise network security architecture, engineering, and modernization across cloud and on-premises environments. Designs firewalls, WAF, DDoS protection, Azure connectivity, microsegmentation, Zero Trust, SASE, and SD-WAN solutions. Serves as a Level 3 incident escalation point, drives root-cause analysis and resilience improvements, establishes automation and DevSecOps standards, and mentors engineers. Partners with stakeholders and vendors to deliver secure, scalable network security platforms.

Leads the design and implementation of security solutions for AI systems across data ingestion, model training, deployment, and runtime. Develops controls against prompt injection, data poisoning, model inversion, data leakage, and unauthorized access. Secures cloud infrastructure, APIs, identities, integrations, and third-party AI platforms; implements monitoring, automated security testing, and incident response. Partners with architecture, engineering, and governance teams to ensure resilient, compliant AI security practices.

Own and execute the application security program, including SIEM management, threat detection, architecture and code reviews, vulnerability management, security testing, incident response, forensic investigations, and security tooling. Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to remediate vulnerabilities, promote secure coding, develop training, and improve enterprise security through cloud, container, compliance, and monitoring practices.

Own and mature the company’s DevSecOps and cloud security function. Responsibilities include implementing SOC 2 controls, automating compliance evidence, managing cloud security posture and runtime security, embedding security gates into CI/CD, leading vulnerability remediation, developing auto-remediation and AI-assisted workflows, and securing infrastructure through Terraform and policy-as-code. The role also partners with GRC and corporate security teams while building reusable security tooling and developer-platform guardrails.

Own the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase’s enterprise IAM platform spanning human, AI agent, service, and workload identities. Drive adoption across 700+ systems, establish authentication and authorization standards, lead migrations and build-versus-buy decisions, automate audit and regulatory controls, reduce standing privilege, and mentor senior engineering talent. Partner across Security, Compliance, IT, Infrastructure, and product teams while influencing technical direction without direct authority.

Lead fraud strategy and influence business, product, and operational decisions across a rapidly growing identity and risk company. Responsibilities may include advising on fraud trends and attack patterns, translating insights into strategic recommendations, improving fraud prevention operations, partnering cross-functionally, engaging executive stakeholders, representing the company through industry thought leadership, and defining best practices for fraud, identity, and risk management.