Senior Security Engineer

The posting, as Agora wrote it

ABOUT AGORA

At Agora, our mission is to transform how money moves. We believe stablecoins will underpin a new financial fabric, one that is faster, more global, and more efficient than today's siloed systems. That is why we are building AUSD and the Agora stack, a full service platform that makes issuing, managing, and integrating stablecoins seamless, whether you're a developer, fintech, or institution. With AUSD, stablecoins become programmable, composable, and ubiquitous by default.

We believe digital dollars should be a public good: trusted, accessible, and built for real-world utility. Our mission is to drive adoption through customizable, user-friendly on-ramps that make stable, dollar-based value available onchain.
We're backed by world-class investors including Paradigm and Dragonfly, and we're growing a team to reimagine how value moves online.

We're intentional about who we bring on. If you're passionate about security and want to help us build a safe environment for people to engage with money, let's talk.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Agora combines the discipline required to operate financial infrastructure with the pace and creativity of a crypto-native startup. We are a small, mission-driven team that values clear thinking, extreme ownership, attention to detail, and high-velocity decision-making.

The Security team works directly with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Compliance, and Operations to manage risk without creating unnecessary friction. We operate in short feedback loops and expect security engineers to understand systems deeply, make pragmatic decisions, and help teams ship securely.

JOB SUMMARY

We are looking for a Senior Security Engineer to help secure the products and services Agora builds and operates.
You will be the Security team's primary technical partner to Engineering. You will work alongside engineers from initial design through production operation: building and reviewing controls, architectures, code, infrastructure, and configuration; identifying meaningful risks; and helping teams implement practical solutions.

You will also play a hands-on role in Agora's security monitoring program. You will identify the telemetry and detections needed to protect our systems, implement and tune alert rules, investigate security events, and work closely with our SOC and internal teams during incident response.

This is a broad ownership role. You should be equally comfortable reviewing an API authorization model, reasoning about an AWS or Kubernetes deployment, tuning a security scanner, investigating suspicious production activity, and driving a vulnerability through remediation.

Agora's environment includes TypeScript and Node.js services, React applications, REST APIs, relational databases, Docker, Kubernetes on AWS, Pulumi infrastructure as code, Argo CD and GitOps, Cloudflare, and blockchain infrastructure. You do not need to arrive as an expert in every part of the stack, but you should be able to learn unfami
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estigate it deeply, propose a path forward, and close the loop.

• A collaborative, low-ego approach to security. You build trust with engineers while maintaining a high bar for systems protecting financial assets and sensitive data.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience securing fintech, payments, digital-assets or other high-assurance financial platforms.
• Familiarity with blockchain systems, smart-contract integrations, transaction flows, custody models, signing infrastructure, or cryptographic key management.
• Experience with TypeScript, Pulumi, AWS, Argo CD, Cloudflare, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Experience with incident-response tooling, security data pipelines, log normalization, detection-as-code, or automated enrichment and response.
• Experience defining operational metrics such as detection coverage, false-positive rate, investigation time, and mean time to contain.
• Experience designing security controls for distributed, event-driven, multi-tenant, or high-availability systems.
• Ability to create security automation, internal tools, or CI/CD integrations using code.
• Experience applying AI-assisted tools to security investigations, detection engineering, or secure development.
• Relevant offensive-security, incident-response and cloud-security experience or certifications.

Agora operates a centralized USD-pegged stablecoin platform with robust compliance, security, and governance. We are equally committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.