Location: Remote - Remote APAC & EU
Remote | Full-time
Compensation: $75K - $85K
Our client is a fast-growing, enterprise-grade software organization committed to supporting, developing, and servicing a leading open-source, proof-of-stake distributed ledger platform. As an EVM-compatible network built to meet the rigorous demands of global developers and institutions, the platform prioritizes speed, security, stability, and sustainability, and is governed by industry-leading organizations across multiple sectors and regions.
As the platform scales with new protocol upgrades, EVM-compatible services, cross-chain infrastructure, and cryptographic primitives, managing the expanding attack surface is paramount. The Product Security Engineer will be responsible for embedding security directly into the product development lifecycle, ensuring that security remains a first-class property of every protocol upgrade, smart contract, and node shipped to production. This role focuses on hands-on vulnerability discovery, adversarial testing, and proactive threat mitigation before code reaches production.
Key Responsibilities
- Security Assessments & Threat Modeling: Conduct end-to-end security assessments of blockchain-based systems, spanning cryptographic primitive design, protocol architecture, smart contract implementation, and deployed infrastructure. Own threat modeling and security architecture reviews across all product phases.
- Vulnerability Discovery & Exploitation: Identify real-world vulnerabilities through rigorous hands-on code reviews, adversarial testing, and the development of proof-of-concept exploits for native services, EVM-compatible contracts, cross-chain bridges, and consensus-layer components.
- Engineering Partnership: Partner directly with core engineering teams to translate complex cryptographic and protocol-level risks into prioritized, actionable remediation workflows. Define and enforce security gates prior to production deployment.
- Security Automation & Tooling: Build, scale, and improve security tooling, fuzzing infrastructure, and CI/CD security automation to maximize security coverage efficiently.
- Research & Mitigation: Track emerging blockchain and Web3 attack patterns, map them to the internal codebase, and drive proactive mitigation strategies.
Core Capabilities & Experience
- Proven track record of hands-on vulnerability discovery and security testing across blockchain protocols, smart contracts, nodes, and APIs, with a demonstrated ability to identify deep architectural bugs beyond automated scanning.
- Strong threat modeling and security architecture review experience applied directly to distributed cryptographic systems.
- Direct experience assessing cross-chain protocols, threshold signature schemes, or other cryptographic systems with complex trust assumptions, including the auditing or breaking of cross-chain bridges.
- Deep working knowledge of applied cryptography (e.g., BLS signatures, pairing-based schemes, polynomial commitments, and Fiat-Shamir constructions) and the ability to reason about cryptographic failure modes in production environments.
- Ability to analyze trust model tradeoffs, including state proof, multisig, and oracle attestation models, and evaluate their impact on the broader attack surface.
Functional & Technical Expertise
- Mastery of blockchain security and secure coding practices across both EVM-compatible and non-EVM chains.
- Proficiency with security testing tooling, including static analysis, dynamic analysis, and fuzzing, alongside experience developing custom fuzzing harnesses or security test infrastructure.
- Strong ability to read, review, and audit cryptographic code written in Rust and/or Java.
- Clear understanding of memory safety, constant-time correctness, secret handling, and the unique security risks at JNI boundaries.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing and operating grammar-aware fuzzing campaigns against gRPC, JSON-RPC, or protocol-level endpoints.
- Experience building classifier pipelines to isolate security signals from noise, or building custom security automation tooling.
- Prior security work focused on Ethereum consensus clients or production threshold signature systems.
- Experience integrating AI-assisted workflows into security review and triage processes.