Binance is a leading global blockchain ecosystem behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and registered users. We are trusted by 300+ million people in 100+ countries for our industry-leading security, user fund transparency, trading engine speed, deep liquidity, and an unmatched portfolio of digital-asset products. Binance offerings range from trading and finance to education, research, payments, institutional services, Web3 features, and more. We leverage the power of digital assets and blockchain to build an inclusive financial ecosystem to advance the freedom of money and improve financial access for people around the world.
We are looking for a Security Engineer to own and continuously improve the security posture of our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and production systems.
This is a deeply technical role focused on preventative security, secure-by-default platforms, and automation-first controls — working closely with Platform, DevOps, and Engineering teams. You'll design and operate security tooling across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines, with a strong emphasis on building production-grade security software using Python.
Responsibilities
Build production-grade security applications and services using Python
Develop internal security platforms and tooling from scratch
Create security APIs and integrations with existing systems
Build automation to detect misconfigurations, enforce security baselines and automate security reviews and alerts
Design and implement AI-powered security integrations
Design and enforce secure cloud architectures (AWS)
Implement policy enforcement for IAM least-privilege models, secrets management (e.g., Vault, SSM, Sealed Secrets) and security groups and private networking
Secure CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) to prevent secret leakage and enforce signed artifacts and immutable builds
Own code and artifact scanning: SAST / DAST, dependency & SBOM scanning, container image scanning
Define security gates that balance developer velocity and risk
Improve runtime security controls: detection of suspicious activity and abuse prevention
Policy enforcement in production
Partner with teams on threat modeling and secure design reviews
Support incident response and post-mortems from a security perspective
Drive continuous improvement from security incidents and near-misses
Lead technical aspects of security incident investigations
Requirements
Strong experience in Infrastructure / Platform / Cloud Security
Advanced Python development skills (not just scripting—building production software)
Hands-on with CI/CD security tooling
Experience building security applications and platforms
Software design patterns and engineering best practices
Cloud platforms: AWS
Kubernetes
CI/CD systems
Infrastructure as Code
Python software development (APIs, services, tooling)
Automation-first, not manual checklists
Strong communicator who can influence engineers
Comfortable operating in fast-moving, production environments
Software engineering mindset applied to security problems
