Senior Security Engineer

Skills

About the Role

Devise and implement systems security policies and procedures, secure public-facing services, perform penetration testing and source code security reviews, and collaborate across functional teams to apply security best practices.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of systems security experience
• Ability to work with a high-impact, fast-moving startup team
• Extensive knowledge of operating system and computer architecture internals
• Strong understanding of cryptography, protocol design, and adversarial analysis
• Experience reverse engineering and exploiting cryptographic protocol systems
• Professional software development experience in Go, Rust, C/C++, and/or Java
• Experience in security incident response
• Experience in security code review and vulnerability triaging
• Prior experience running an open source-facing bug bounty program
• 2+ years of management experience or experience as a senior decision maker
• Experience working with remote teams
• Experience with Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure
• Working knowledge of Bitcoin and Lightning design principles

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy active fuzzing, black-box and white-box testing, and penetration testing infrastructure for open source and production systems
• Perform security audits and review internal production systems and open source software interacting with Bitcoin and Lightning
• Provide mentorship and guidance to teammates
• Create global security policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures
• Oversee security aspects of software release processes and infrastructure
• Determine security team requirements for future growth
• Develop and ensure responsiveness of security incident management processes
• Perform risk management assessments