Top Cybersecurity Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Lead the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for Circle’s identity and access platform. Manage and develop backend and frontend engineers, guide architectural changes, review designs and code, troubleshoot production issues, participate in incident response, and partner with Security, Product, Risk, and engineering teams. The role focuses on authentication, authorization, customer and agent identity, secure delegation, platform reliability, migrations, and operational readiness.

Leads Circle’s third-party security program by conducting complex partner and vendor assessments, evaluating technical controls, identifying risks, and communicating recommendations. Builds AI-enabled tooling, automation, monitoring, scoring, and intelligence-driven workflows to modernize security reviews and support continuous risk management. Partners with Security Engineering, Legal, Procurement, and business teams to embed security requirements into third-party onboarding and oversight.

This role involves defining and leading the security and risk strategy for Circle's products, ensuring compliance across jurisdictions while managing product security, compliance operations, and risk assessment.

Lead detection and response across cloud, blockchain, and AI surfaces. Build detection coverage, run incident response, deploy SOC AI tooling, maintain SIEM/SOAR and orchestration, and collaborate cross-functionally to remediate threats and improve visibility. Participate in on-call rotation and support threat modeling, vulnerability scans, and custom tooling.