Senior Crypto Security Engineer

About the Role

Were looking for a talented Crypto Security Engineer to join our Security team. As a key member of a company operating at the forefront of crypto and fintech youll work to secure our infrastructure protect our users assets and help build a world-class security posture across our platforms.

Youll partner with engineering product compliance and legal teams to ensure our security practices exceed regulatory and industry standards. Youll also play a crucial role in detecting preventing and responding to threats targeting our applications cloud infrastructure and customers.

What Youll Do

• Establish and maintain secure design principles tailored for cryptocurrency systems ensuring robust protection against evolving threats
• Design and implement disaster recovery strategies protocols and systems to safeguard and recover crypto assets to ensure safety and security in the event of system failures or breaches
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to enforce security requirements for new and existing crypto products integrating security considerations into the product development lifecycle
• Oversee the lifecycle of cryptographic keys and API keys used for crypto asset money movements implementing best practices for key generation storage rotation and revocation to prevent unauthorized access
• Design and develop secure custodial solutions for crypto assets
• Design implement and maintain cloud security best practices to protect cloud based infrastructure across network security identity and access management and data protection
• Develop strategies to detect and mitigate insider threats
• Create and maintain automation tools to streamline security operations including vulnerability scanning incident response and compliance reporting
• Enhance detection and response capabilities across crypto products and services to identify incidents promptly and develop response strategies to mitigate potential impact
• Establish and enforce appropriate access management policies for crypto products and services including MFA RBA and regular access reviews
• Evaluate smart contracts blockchain protocols and web3 infrastructure to identify vulnerabilities recommend mitigations and ensure secure integration of decentralized technologies
• Conduct security assessments of of new crypto assets defi protocols and third party integrations providing guidance on risk mitigation and secure adoption

What We Look For

• 36 years of experience in cybersecurity engineering preferably in fintech crypto or highly regulated industries.
• Strong understanding of cloud security architecture and experience securing AWS or GCP environments.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform CloudFormation) and automation (Python Bash Go).
• Familiarity with common attack vectors and exploitation techniques (OWASP Top 10 MITRE ATT&CK).
• Hands-on experience with SIEMs (Splunk Datadog ELK) endpoint protection and IAM systems.
• Deep knowledge of authentication/authorization protocols (OAuth2 SAML OpenID).
• Security certifications like CISSP OSCP or AWS Security Specialty are a plus.

Nice to Have

• Experience in blockchain or cryptocurrency security
• Experience with Cryptographic Systems and Key Management (Smart Contracts Custody)
• Familiarity with hardware security modules (HSMs) and key management practices.
• Contributions to open-source security tools or frameworks.
• Previous experience working in a startup or hyper-growth tech company.

Required Experience:

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