Head of Security
Open infrastructure for onchain loans. Connect to the most trusted lending network.
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About Morpho Labs
Morpho provides open infrastructure for onchain loans, allowing users to earn, borrow, curate, and build. Earn: Put your crypto to work by depositing to start earning. Morpho offers optimized vaults, tailored strategies based on risk level, and non-custodial smart contracts. Borrow: Provide collateral to borrow any asset with low costs, higher collateralization factors, per-market rates, and zero fees. For Curators & Businesses: - Curate: Earn fees for optimizing yield, risk, and liquidity by deploying open, customizable, and scalable vaults and markets. - Build: Build custom lending use cases with Morpho's efficient, flexible, and secure infrastructure, maintaining full ownership and control.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Define and drive Morpho's security strategy across corporate IT, cloud and infrastructure, application, supply chain, identity, incident response, threat intelligence, and counterparty security while building and leading the security function.
Requirements
- 10+ years in security, including building or leading a security function.
- Strong understanding of crypto and web3 threat models.
- Experience building and growing a security team from a small base.
- Deep hands-on expertise in cloud, infrastructure, CI/CD, supply-chain, identity, and application security.
- End-to-end incident response ownership, including incident command and external communication.
- Experience leading SOC 2, ISO 27001, or equivalent certifications.
- Strong prioritization, influence, and cross-functional leadership skills.
- Excellent organized and responsive communication.
- Humble.
- Established security or crypto-security community network and public profile.
- Offensive security depth or experience establishing red/blue capabilities.
- Familiarity with institutional, regulatory, and threat-sharing expectations.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the security strategy and roadmap across corporate, cloud, infrastructure, application, supply-chain, identity, and operational security.
- Build, lead, hire, and develop the security function.
- Execute hands-on security work including threat modeling, architecture review, control implementation, and incident command.
- Establish a coherent governance framework connecting security tooling and controls.
- Own incident response, including runbooks, incident command, escalation, and market communication.
- Build and run a counterparty security program for curators and partners.
- Lead SOC 2, ISO 27001, and related certification strategy.
- Represent Morpho's security posture to executives, fintechs, financial institutions, and ecosystem partners.
- Partner with Engineering, Protocol, and Integrations to drive security outcomes.
Benefits
- Fair, top-tier compensation
- Real flexibility and remote time
- Time together in Paris
- Great health coverage
- Support to keep learning
Hiring Process
Process takes 3 to 6 weeks, depending on the position: interview with the Talent Lead, interview with the future manager, case study, and interview with a co-founder.