Director, Cybersecurity Engineering

The Company

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. 

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards.  Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade. 

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day.  We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Summary:

This role leads the engineering organization that owns how PayPal creates, protects, distributes, rotates, and retires cryptographic material - keys, certificates, secrets, and the services and hardware that sit behind them. You will lead managers and senior engineers across public key infrastructure and certificate lifecycle management, key management and HSM platforms, cryptographic libraries and services, secrets management, and the enterprise crypto-agility and post-quantum readiness program.

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities:

• Provide expert advice and strategic counsel to senior executives, shaping the development of multi-year security strategies that align with business goals and long-term objectives.
• Determine the most effective methods and strategies for addressing complex security challenges, driving innovation through collaboration with cross-functional teams to shape the organization’s security landscape.
• Identify and resolve unique, high-impact security challenges, applying deep expertise to situations of substantial significance, and developing innovative solutions that influence the organization’s security framework.
• Drive the future technology roadmap, shaping the security vision that supports and enables business growth and competitive advantage.
• Lead the development and execution of key components of the multi-year security strategy, contributing to the broader security agenda within the organization.
• Inspire and motivate team(s) to pursue innovative solutions, ensuring alignment with the overall security strategy and business objectives, while fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 2 years of experience leading others

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Roughly 12+ years in software, platform, or security engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering teams and experience leading other managers.
• Ownership of production cryptographic infrastructure at enterprise scale, PKI, certificate lifecycle management, key management, HSMs, or cryptographic services, with applied fluency in TLS and trust stores, key hierarchies and rotation, and HSM integration. This is an engineering leadership role rather than a cryptographic research role.
• Experience running platforms under regulatory scrutiny, PCI DSS, SOC 2, FIPS 140-2/140-3, or comparable, and working directly with auditors and examiners.
• A track record of large migrations across many dependent teams where success depended on influence and sequencing rather than direct authority, and the communication skills to give executives the risk and the decision rather than the cryptography.

You will shape the strategy, delivery, and operational health of PayPal's cryptographic platforms — the foundation beneath uninterrupted payment availability, provable regulatory compliance, and a credible path to quantum-resistant cryptography ahead of external deadlines. Concretely, most of that impact comes through the organization you build and lead:

• Managers and engineers across PKI, key management, cryptographic services, and post-quantum readiness work from one roadmap instead of several competing ones, and know how their work ladders into it.
• Leaders in the portfolio take on real scope, make their own calls, and develop successors behind them.
• In a specialist field this small, retention is a leadership outcome long before it is a recruiting one.
• Cloud Modernization, Platform Engineering, Identity, SRE, Risk, and Compliance adopt cryptographic standards because the case is clear and the partnership is real.
• What is exposed, what it would cost, and what you propose to do about it — framed so leadership can decide on time rather than after an incident.

Additional Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-team organization of managers, technical leads, and engineers across time zones, setting direction and staying close enough to the technology to make good calls without becoming the bottleneck.
• Hire, develop, and retain cryptographic engineering talent, building bench strength and succession in a domain where single points of knowledge are a business continuity risk.
• Own the multi-year roadmap across PKI and certificate lifecycle management, key management and HSM platforms, cryptographic services, and secrets, including vendor strategy across CAs, HSM manufacturers, and CLM platforms.
• Drive the enterprise crypto-agility and post-quantum program, from cryptographic inventory and risk-ranking through migration waves and executive-level reporting.
• Push certificate and key operations toward automation by default, ACME and API-driven issuance, self-service onboarding, short-lived credentials, with named ownership for every certificate in the estate.
• Lead through cryptography-related incidents and regulatory examinations alike, partnering with Compliance, Internal Audit, and Risk on PCI DSS and SOC, and converting findings into durable control changes.
• Represent cryptography to the CISO's leadership team and to business and engineering executives, and track where the field is heading, standards drafts, CA/Browser Forum ballots, NIST and NSA guidance, so PayPal's plans adjust early.

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

0

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The base pay for this role will depend on where you work and the relevant experience and expertise you bring. The expected range of pay for this role by location is:


Primary Location | Pay Range:

Scottsdale, Arizona: ($188,000.00 - $279,400.00 Annually)


Additional Location(s) | Pay Range:

No other locations are assigned to this requisition currently.

Additional compensation for this role may include an annual performance bonus, equity, or other incentive compensation, as applicable.

PayPal does not charge candidates any fees for courses, applications, resume reviews, interviews, background checks, or onboarding. When making an application directly, we will never ask you to share passwords, one-time passcodes (OTP), or verification codes.  Any such request is a red flag and likely part of a scam. All communication regarding your application will come from official PayPal email domains. If you suspect fraudulent activity, please report it immediately.  To learn more about how to identify and avoid recruitment fraud please visit https://careers.pypl.com/contact-us. 

For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset-you. That’s why we offer comprehensive, choice-based programs, to support all aspects of personal wellbeing—physical, emotional, and financial—delivering meaningful value where it matters most. We strive to create a flexible, balanced work culture with a holistic approach to benefits, including generous paid time off, healthcare coverage for you and your family, and resources to create financial security and support your mental health.

Who We Are:

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Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion 

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.  In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.  If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.

Belonging at PayPal: 

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

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