About this role
Tempo is a layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoins and real-world payments, born from Stripe’s experience in global payments and Paradigm’s expertise in crypto tech.
Tempo’s payment-first design provides a scalable, low-cost predictable backbone that meets the needs of high-volume payment use cases. Our goal is to move money reliably, cheaply, and at scale. Our north star is simplicity for users: fintechs, traditional banks, merchants, platforms, and anyone else looking to move their payments into the 21st century.
We're building Tempo with design partners who are global leaders in AI, e-commerce, and financial services: Anthropic, Coupang, Deutsche Bank, DoorDash, Mercury, Nubank, OpenAI, Revolut, Shopify, Standard Chartered, Visa, and more.
We’re a team of crypto-optimists, building the infrastructure needed to bring real, substantial economic flows onchain. We like to move fast and swing for the fences — join us!
The RoleYou'll be Tempo's first dedicated product security engineer, standing up application and infrastructure security from the ground floor. You'll build real tooling, respond to real incidents, and work directly with engineering to secure systems that help onboard the largest enterprises onchain.
ResponsibilitiesBuild and deploy security tooling across endpoint management, supply-chain security, infrastructure, and application layers
Identify and remediate security gaps across Tempo's production systems and development pipelines
Lead incident response end-to-end: triage, containment, remediation, and post-mortems
Partner with engineering on secure design reviews and operational security decisions
Establish repeatable, practical security practices for how systems are built, deployed, monitored, and secured
Improve supply-chain security across dependencies, build systems, and deployment artifacts
Scale application-security coverage as Tempo's infrastructure and product surface grow
Operate with autonomy, build what's needed without waiting for large-company support structures
Qualifications5–8 years of hands-on product or application security engineering experience
Track record building security practices at a company in the 100–500 person range, or similar environments with limited existing security infrastructure
Hands-on coding ability: you build security tooling, automation, and detection, not just recommendations
Deep incident-response experience including high-severity situations owned end-to-end
Strong infrastructure security knowledge: hosting environments, network security, monitoring, and securing system integrations
Application security fundamentals: threat modeling, secure code review, vulnerability management, supply-chain security
Comfortable communicating technical security decisions to engineers with real depth and specificity