About the role
Who we are
About Privy
Our mission is to make privacy and user ownership the default online. To do so, we build simple, flexible APIs and tools for developers that make it easy to build new products on crypto rails.
Privy owns the abstractions and infrastructure layer above wallets, integrating across chains, third-party providers, and Stripe products like Treasury and Link. We get to solve hard technical problems while leveraging Stripe's distribution to reach customers like Ramp, Klarna, Deel, Kraken, Hyperliquid, and Fomo — powering experiences for both mainstream users and crypto natives.
Learn more about Privy: Privy and Stripe: Bringing crypto to everyone
About the team
Engineering at Privy is distinguished by:
- High urgency: Shipping very small iterations, very fast, to learn very quickly.
- Product taste: Our customers are developers, and to build effective products for them requires technical knowledge - you will often be "the PM".
- Security mindset: A great portion of our product is trust. While we have a dedicated security team, every engineer brings security to their designs from the start.
In practice, we use boring technology like Node, React, and AWS so we can focus our engineering energy entirely on pushing the boundaries of Privy's core product, e.g. through hardware enclaves, multi-region low latency APIs, and blockchain abstractions that are accessible to mainstream developers.
What you’ll do
- Manage and architect multi-tenant infrastructure that serves billions of requests every month
- Design our build and deploy systems across the stack, from SDKs to apps to high-traffic APIs to complex secure enclaves, and more – all for a team that ships daily
- Drive observability across our product and help keep our systems up and performant in our role in the most critical parts of our customers' stacks
- Advocate for making the right technical investments at the right time in a company with ever-evolving technical needs
Who you are
Minimum requirements
- 8+ years of experience in building highly available production systems
- Knowledge of Typescript or Python, Terraform or similar, Cloudflare, and AWS infrastructure
- An understanding of modern web and API development best practices
- Experience building delightfully simple developer experiences
Preferred qualifications
- An ability to quickly learn new skills and take on new challenges
- Experience at rapidly growing startups and the flexibility it requires
- Excitement about authentication, security, or in web3
- An understanding of EC2 Nitro Enclaves and ASGs/Kubernetes
About Privy
Privy creates authentication, authorization, and data control tooling to enable developers to create products that keep users safe. It creates simple, powerful APIs for managing user data, allowing them to easily integrate user data into their products. Privy bridges the gap between users' on-chain activity and their off-chain data, allowing users to create delightful experiences without putting themselves or the product at risk.
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Job details
Location
San Francisco, CA
Funding
Total raised
$26.3M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.