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.
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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.
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About the Role
You will design, review, and verify security architecture in heterogeneous environments, conduct security assessments and audits, recommend practical improvements, monitor blockchain security trends and threats, and advise blockchain teams on secure operational practices.
Requirements
- Experience as an IT security expert
- Strong background in application security
- Experience in security testing diverse applications
- Experience with infrastructure security
- Familiarity with security frameworks such as OWASP and NIST
- Problem-solving skills
- Communication and collaboration skills
Responsibilities
- Design, review, and verify security architecture
- Conduct security assessments and audits of existing architectures
- Recommend practical security improvements
- Stay updated on blockchain security trends, threats, and mitigation techniques
- Provide expertise to blockchain teams
- Ensure secure operational practices
Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus program
- Wellness allowance
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
