Senior Security Engineer

🕒 March 27

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Lightning Labs

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1 - 10 employees

🔌 API

₿ Crypto

API • Crypto

Lightning Labs is developing Lightning, an open protocol layer designed to utilize the capabilities of blockchains and smart contracts. Their goal is to enable affordable, rapid, and private transactions globally accessible to all.

📋 Description

• 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.