Engineering Lead, Security Operations
Anchorage Digital offers institutions secure and regulated crypto custody, trading, staking, and financing services.
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About Anchorage Digital
Anchorage Digital is a regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated financial services and infrastructure solutions. Founded in 2017, Anchorage offers custody, trading, staking, and other services for digital assets, serving banks, fintechs, and investment funds. Anchorage aims to make it simple and secure for institutions to participate in the digital asset space.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Lead the Security Operations engineering function by refining the security roadmap, driving vulnerability management and incident response, creating security automation strategy, hiring and mentoring distributed security engineers, leading cross-functional projects, owning resource planning, and communicating complex security solutions to stakeholders.
Requirements
- 8+ years of technical experience including full-time security engineering or software engineering
- 3+ years of leadership experience as a formal people manager
- Experience leading distributed teams across time zones
- Deep understanding of vulnerability management, incident response, security monitoring, and secure coding practices
- Experience with cloud security and network security
- Player-coach skillset with ability to provide technical guidance while managing people and processes
- Ability to write scripting-level code in Python, Go, or bash
- Experience with SIEM tools, security scanning, and monitoring platforms
- Computer science fundamentals including concurrency, algorithms, and data structures; formal CS degree not required
Responsibilities
- Refine the security roadmap
- Drive vulnerability management
- Lead incident response
- Create security automation strategy
- Drive operational excellence in security monitoring
- Hire, mentor, and grow security engineers
- Lead large cross-functional security projects
- Break down initiatives into manageable tasks and prioritize
- Communicate complex security ideas and secure stakeholder buy-in
- Own team resource planning and end-to-end hiring
