Staff Security Architect
Payward, Inc. is a global financial infrastructure company and the parent organization behind Kraken. It provides trading, custody, payments, lending, staking, tokenized assets, derivatives, and market data infrastructure to consumers, professional traders, institutions, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and onchain platforms.
Funding history
Investors
Projects
About Payward, Inc.
Payward, Inc. operates a unified financial infrastructure platform powering a portfolio of products including Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, CF Benchmarks, and Payward Services. Its shared architecture provides global liquidity, risk and margin management, collateral and settlement, compliance and licensing, and operational infrastructure across crypto, tokenized assets, and traditional markets. Through Payward Services, the company offers APIs and infrastructure for crypto trading, custody, on/off-ramps, tokenized equities, derivatives, staking and yield, payments, and benchmark data. Payward operates across more than 190 jurisdictions and serves consumers, professional traders, institutional investors, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and DeFi/onchain protocols.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, review, and verify security architecture across heterogeneous environments. You will conduct security assessments and audits, recommend practical improvements, track blockchain security trends, and advise blockchain teams on secure operational practices. You will work hands-on across infrastructure, cryptography, web3, Rust, and AI security projects.
Requirements
- IT security expertise
- Application security experience
- Application security testing experience
- Infrastructure security experience
- OWASP
- NIST
- Problem-solving
- Communication
- Collaboration
Responsibilities
- Design security architecture
- Review security architecture
- Verify security architecture
- Conduct security assessments
- Audit existing architectures
- Recommend security improvements
- Monitor blockchain security trends
- Advise blockchain teams on secure operations
