Senior Security Engineer
You will devise and implement policies and procedures around best practices in systems security for a growing engineering organization. You will secure web, Bitcoin, and other public-facing network services, and perform penetration testing along with automated and manual source code security reviews. You will work across functional team boundaries to ensure all aspects of the business are appropriately covered by security best practices, while bringing your passion for Bitcoin and financial freedom to the role.
Responsibilities
- Design and deploy active fuzzing, black and white box testing, and penetration testing infrastructure for open source and production systems
- Perform security audits and review of internal production systems and open source software interacting with Bitcoin and Lightning
- Provide mentorship and guidance to level up teammates
- Create global security policy, standards, guidelines, and procedures
- Oversee security aspects of software release processes and infrastructure
- Determine security team requirements for future growth
- Develop and ensure responsiveness of security incident management processes
- Perform risk management assessments
Requirements
- At least 5 years prior experience in systems security
- Ability to work with a high impact, fast-moving startup team
- Extensive knowledge of operating system and computer architecture internals
- Strong understanding of cryptography, protocol design and adversarial analysis
- Experience in reverse engineering and exploiting cryptographic protocol systems
- Extensive expertise with professional software development experience in Go, Rust, C/C++, and/or Java
- Experience in security incident response
- Experience in security code review and vulnerability triaging
- Prior experience running an open source facing bug bounty program
- 2+ years management experience or experience as a senior decision maker
- Experience working with remote teams
- Experience working with Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure
- Working knowledge of fundamental Bitcoin and Lightning design principles