Senior Developer Relations Engineer
Trail of Bits provides blockchain security services, including smart contract audits, design assessment, and vulnerability analysis for Web3 projects.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Trail of Bits
Trail of Bits helps secure blockchain technology through comprehensive security assessments, code reviews, and tool development. The company provides specialized services for smart contracts, nodes, bridges, DeFi protocols, and off-chain components across multiple blockchain ecosystems including Ethereum, Solana, and others. They also develop and maintain open-source security tools like Slither, Echidna, and Medusa.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Amplify public security work and deepen relationships with security practitioners, researchers, maintainers, and open-source communities. The role combines community development, technical content, conference participation, open-source support, developer education, and hands-on software contributions.
Requirements
- Build and ship software such as tools, libraries, integrations, skills, or agents
- Read unfamiliar code, run analyzers, and open merged pull requests
- Have deep hands-on security experience, typically seven or more years
- Build with agentic tooling including skills, agents, MCP servers, harnesses, and evals
- Have a public body of work including talks, posts, upstream contributions, research, or documentation
- Possess credibility within security and open-source communities
- Demonstrate strong technical writing and public speaking ability
- Make and defend decisions under ambiguity
- Experience maintaining or meaningfully contributing to open-source projects
- Depth in application security, blockchain and cryptography, AI/ML security, or low-level systems research
- Experience running or programming a community venue at meaningful scale
- Contributions to developer documentation shipped alongside code
- Involvement with open-source foundations, grant programs, or maintainer initiatives
- Willingness to travel approximately one quarter of the year
Responsibilities
- Grow relationships across the security community and establish new ones
- Attend and speak at security conferences and cybersecurity meetups
- Support open-source projects and maintainers
- Facilitate technical office hours connecting maintainers with engineers
- Turn research and releases into advisories, writeups, and reusable guidance
- Optimize tools, skills, and plugins for adoption
- Teach security methods through workshops and hands-on sessions
- Publish deep dives, tutorials, and technical write-ups
- Help engineers identify, prepare, and deliver conference talks
- Run published work against unfamiliar code and provide feedback
- Ship runnable examples and workflow integrations
- Improve project onboarding, documentation, and first-run experiences
- Attract external contributors and encourage continued contributions
- Communicate practitioner needs, research gaps, and emerging ecosystems internally
Benefits
- Fully company-paid health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
- 401(k) plan with a 5% base salary match
- 20 days of paid vacation
- 4 months of parental leave
- $10,000 relocation assistance for moving to NYC
- $1,000 working-from-home stipend
- Annual $750 learning and development stipend
- Company-sponsored all-team celebrations with travel and accommodation
- Philanthropic contribution matching up to $2,000 annually
- Annual performance-based bonuses
Hiring Process
The interview process includes a technical conversation with the engineering team and a short presentation.