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Engineering Lead — Security

Summary

Lead security for a blockchain L1: harden infrastructure, define policies, manage keys, run audits, and respond to incidents across validators, RPC, and smart-contract systems.

You will own security across the L1 infrastructure, products, services, policies, processes, multisig governance, and key management. You will harden hosts, networks, and pipelines; define security standards; secure applications and supply chains; operate signing and treasury workflows; lead incident response; conduct threat modeling and security reviews; and coordinate audits and bug bounties.

Responsibilities

  • Help define the engineering culture and bar with other technical leaders
  • Own the security posture of L1 infrastructure, including validators, RPC, signing services, and supporting systems
  • Harden hosts, networks, and pipelines
  • Drive vulnerability management, patching, and security monitoring
  • Define and roll out access control, secrets management, secure SDLC, change management, and compliance-readiness policies
  • Drive application and supply-chain security for shipped products and services
  • Implement secure-by-default patterns and dependency and build-pipeline scanning in CI
  • Conduct security reviews for high-stakes work and secure agent-authored changes
  • Design and operate multisig governance, signing ceremonies, and key lifecycles
  • Build and lead security incident response, including detection, triage, containment, and postmortems
  • Run security tabletop exercises
  • Conduct threat modeling, security reviews, and red-team exercises
  • Coordinate external audits and bug bounties
  • Work with infrastructure and L1 teams to resist node and validator compromise and ship upgrades safely

Requirements

  • Extensive security engineering, infrastructure security, SecOps, and application-security experience
  • Production systems experience with Linux internals, networking, containers, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code
  • Experience defining and implementing security policies
  • Deep key-management experience with signing workflows, HSMs, secrets management, and key generation, rotation, and recovery
  • Incident response leadership covering detection, containment, forensics, and postmortems
  • Cryptography fundamentals applied to blockchain and key management
  • Senior-level ownership, judgment, communication, and influence without authority
  • Comfort working in high-stakes financial systems
  • Genuine interest in crypto and on-chain systems
  • Experience securing blockchain L1 or L2 node and validator infrastructure
  • Experience with multisig governance and treasury operations
  • EVM, smart contract security, and DeFi attack surfaces
  • Experience coordinating external audits, bug bounties, and responsible disclosure
  • Red teaming, offensive security, or detection engineering experience
  • Experience with high-throughput or low-latency systems

Benefits

  • Remote work
  • Token incentives

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