Senior Security Engineer
Gauntlet provides institutional-grade vault curation and risk management services for DeFi protocols through quantitative optimization and simulation modeling.
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
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Build, operate, and scale a security program securing systems and assets across product, infrastructure, and operations, including on-chain assets. Design controls, automation, and detection capabilities, and own security projects from evaluation through rollout.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on security engineering across product or application security and security operations.
- Experience conducting technical security assessments, system hardening, security policy analysis, and control implementation.
- Adversarial mindset with the ability to pressure-test assumptions.
- Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or JavaScript and AI tools such as Claude Code or Codex.
- Hands-on experience applying AI and LLMs to automation and reusable tooling.
- Experience owning security projects from vendor selection through organization-wide rollout.
- Experience securing high-value or high-throughput transaction systems.
- Clear communication and ability to drive findings to closure.
- Crypto or blockchain security experience.
Responsibilities
- Threat model new product features and integrations and harden systems with effective controls.
- Operate and evolve the application security toolchain and keep it high-signal for developers.
- Own day-to-day security operations across EDR, SIEM, on-chain monitoring, identity, and cloud systems.
- Triage vulnerabilities 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 security workflows, access reviews, SOC 2 and audit evidence collection, vendor due diligence, and reporting with AI.
- Build reusable AI components, Claude skills, and agents for engineering and other functions.
Benefits
- Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!
- Regular in-person company retreats and 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
