Senior Security Engineer
Gauntlet provides institutional-grade vault curation and risk management services for DeFi protocols through quantitative optimization and simulation modeling.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
Funding history
About Gauntlet
Gauntlet offers risk-adjusted DeFi yields through curated vault strategies and applied research services for blockchain protocols. The platform utilizes agent-based simulations, quantitative modeling, and real-time monitoring to optimize protocol parameters, manage market risk, and curate lending, restaking, and perpetual futures vaults across multiple blockchains. Gauntlet's infrastructure processes over 400 million data points daily to inform risk management decisions for protocols securing billions in total value locked.
Skills
About the Role
You will partner with the Head of Security to build, operate and scale a security program. You will secure product, infrastructure and operational systems, threat-model features and integrations, operate application security and detection tooling, triage vulnerabilities and incidents, drive remediation, and automate security workflows with AI and reusable components.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience spanning product or application security and security operations
- Experience conducting technical security assessments of software and systems
- Experience with system hardening, security policy analysis and implementing effective controls
- Proficiency in Python, TypeScript or JavaScript
- Experience working with Claude Code, Codex or similar AI tools
- Hands-on experience applying AI and LLMs to automation and building reusable tooling
- Experience owning security projects from vendor selection through organization-wide rollout
- Experience securing high-value or high-throughput transaction systems
- Clear communication skills
- Crypto or blockchain security experience is a bonus
Responsibilities
- Threat-model new product features and integrations
- Harden systems with effective controls
- Operate and evolve the application security toolchain
- Operate security detection systems across EDR, SIEM, on-chain monitoring, identity and cloud environments
- Triage security alerts and reduce noise
- Triage vulnerability and bug-bounty findings
- Drive remediation and support incident response end to end
- Take security tooling and projects from evaluation through organization-wide rollout
- Automate vulnerability, AppSec, access review, SOC 2, audit evidence, vendor due diligence and reporting workflows with AI
- Build reusable AI components, Claude skills and agents
Benefits
- Remote-first work from anywhere in the US and Canada
- Regular in-person company retreats
- Cross-country office visit perk
- 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees
- $1,000 work-from-home stipend
- Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone and cellular data
- Unlimited vacation
- 100% paid parental leave for 12 weeks
- Fertility benefits
- Opportunity for incentive compensation
