Senior Security Engineer (Remote)

Overview

Lightning Labs is seeking to hire a Security Engineer for the ongoing scaling of our growing engineering organization. This is a hands-on role that consists of devising and implementing policies and procedures around best practices in systems security.

In Short

• Designing and deploying active fuzzing, black+white box testing and penetration testing infrastructure for open source and production systems
• Performing security audits and review of both internal production systems as well as open source software which interacts with Bitcoin+Lightning in a security critical manner
• Provide mentorship and guidance to level up your teammates
• Creating global security policy, standards, guidelines, and procedures to ensure ongoing maintenance of security
• Overseeing security aspects of software release processes and infrastructure
• Determining security team requirements for future growth
• Developing and ensuring responsiveness of security incident management processes
• Performing risk management assessments

Requirements

• At least 5 years prior experience in systems security
• An 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 in reverse engineering and exploiting of cryptographic protocol (cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin) systems
• Extensive expertise with 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 management experience or experience as a senior decision maker
• Experience working with remote teams
• Experience working with Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure
• Working knowledge of fundamental Bitcoin and Lightning design principles
• Candidates with additional experience are welcome to apply as we are open to adjusting the role accordingly

Benefits

• Opportunity to work in a fast-paced startup environment
• Be part of a mission-driven organization
• Work with a highly distributed team
• Mentorship opportunities
• Flexible working arrangements