Principal Cybersecurity Architect Blockchain
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Job Location:
Palo Alto, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 204250 - 285000
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Digital Asset Security Working Group Role Overview
We are seeking a Blockchain security specialist with deep expertise in distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) and application-layer security to lead the work in our Digital Asset Security Group. This is a hands-on research-driven role: you will not only analyze and advise but also build proof-of-concepts demonstrations and exploit simulations to validate real-world risks.
You will operate as both defender and hunter proactively identifying potential attack vectors collaborating with cryptographers and our threat intelligence team and developing strategies and tooling to stay ahead of adversaries. This position bridges traditional cybersecurity with emerging blockchain and cryptographic paradigms including future-proofing against quantum threats and others.
Key Responsibilities:
- Proactively hunt for threats across blockchain networks smart contract ecosystems and infrastructure components in collaboration with our intelligence team.
- Perform ongoing threat intelligence attack surface mapping and exploit simulation on Ethereum Bitcoin Solana etc.
- Design and execute proof-of-concepts and demonstrations for both discovered vulnerabilities and proposed mitigations.
- Identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in smart contracts wallets bridges and node infrastructure.
- Conduct security assessments and code reviews across Solidity Rust and off-chain components.
- Partner with engineering and DevOps to secure CI/CD pipelines API gateways and validator nodes.
- Collaborate with cryptographers to help evaluate readiness for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) transitions.
Advise on secure deployment patters product launches and security-by-design principles.
Qualifications Required:
- 5 to 10 years of experience in cybersecurity or blockchain security.
- Strong understanding of Ethereum Solana and Bitcoin ecosystems (execution consensus infrastructure).
- Proven experience in smart contract auditing (Solidity Rust Anchor framework).
- Hands-on expertise in vulnerability research exploits development or PoC prototyping.
Familiarity with threat hunting attack simulation and adversary emulation in blockchain environments.
Preferred:
- Familiarity with MEV threats bridge exploits flash loan attacks and cross-chain vulnerabilities.
- Experience with security tooling (Mythril Slither Echidna Foundry Halmos etc.)
- Knowledge of zk-SNARKS / zk-STARKs MPC and threshold cryptography.
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Kubernetes
- S3
- Google Cloud Platform
- Cassandra
- System Architecture
- Redshift
- AWS
- Cloud Architecture
- NoSQL
- UML
- Kafka
- Distributed Systems
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