Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 392 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.
Job Description Summary:
PayPal is committed to democratizing financial services for the global citizens. We are looking for a high-energy, passionate, and self-driven Sr. Cybersecurity Risk Engineer, to build and deliver capabilities and services to continuous assess our threat models and analyze impacts of the rapidly evolving global landscape. The Sr. Cybersecurity Risk Engineer will maintain the library of technical and operational risk models and will have responsibilities to partner and collaborate across multi-functional teams to gain deep insight into our dynamic environments and evolving security capabilities. Participate in strategic initiatives and influence business priorities through awareness and advocacy of trending cybersecurity threats and events. If you are passionate about applied technical cybersecurity, and assessing & analyzing for threats to determine operational and technical risks, then come and join our ECS team by applying for this role.
Job Description:
Be a technology and thought leader as part of PayPal’s Enterprise Cyber Security team. Bring security expertise and deep analytical mindset to a challenging and dynamic environment. You will contribute to shaping our security strategy in one of the largest global Fintech companies.
About This Role:
- Lead the threat research science program.
- Develop, manage and maintain our threat & qualitative risk library.
- Manage the methodologies for threat modeling and risk modeling. Bring a cradle-to-grave analytic approach – from threat intelligence to threat profile, to threat vector analysis, and to operational risk and quantitative risk analysis.
- Design an effective experimentation framework, and collaborate with security, technology and business leaders to validate our research and hypothesis.
- Partner with Security Product Management and Security Architecture to influence our roadmap and strategy to disrupt our adversaries and new attack vectors.
- Assist in influencing our KRI methodology for improved tracking of key areas for risk reduction
About You:
- Passionate about threat research and disrupting cyber attacks
- Experience in adopting a research and scientific approach to technology
- In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with large scale complex distributed systems
- Motivated to build new functions and programs in global company
- 10+ years in information security industry
- 5+ years in leading a security team or threat research team
We’re a purpose-driven company whose beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We hold ourselves to our One Team Behaviors which demand that we hold the highest ethical standards, to empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect. Our employees challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. We want to break down barriers to financial empowerment. Join us as we change the way the world defines financial freedom.
PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
