Senior Security Engineer

🕒 March 27

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Lightning Labs

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1 - 10 employees

We are developing Lightning: an open protocol layer that leverages the power of blockchains and smart contracts to make cheap, fast, private transactions available to anyone around the world.

📋 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.