Principal Security Engineer, Product & AI

Principal Security Engineer, Product & AI

Remote, USA

As Marqeta’s Principal Security Engineer you will serve as the technical lead across our security engineering function. This role combines three critical responsibilities: leading product security engineering across our payment platform, building our AI security program as we scale generative AI and ML capabilities, and providing security architecture oversight across enterprise and infrastructure security.

Your primary focus will be product security and AI—threat modeling payment features, securing APIs, building genAI controls, and ensuring AI-powered capabilities ship securely. You'll also own the security architecture function and provide technical oversight for infrastructure security—endpoint protection, network security, VPN, and enterprise security controls—ensuring coherent security standards across everything we build and operate.

You’ll partner closely with Product Security, Infrast...