Security Director

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🌐 United States, Chile, +4 more countries – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇱 Chile – Remote 🇳🇿 New Zealand – Remote 🇫🇷 France – Remote 🇸🇰 Slovakia – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 $185k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL)

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2026

₿ Crypto

💳 Fintech

Crypto • Fintech

Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL) is the team and project behind Zodl, a privacy-first mobile wallet built for shielded Zcash (ZEC). Zodl provides a consumer-facing, self-custodial wallet that emphasizes strong on-chain privacy (shielded transactions), 1-click shielding of transparent funds, private cross-chain payments (CrossPay), private swaps between assets, hardware wallet (Keystone) cold-storage support, and merchant payments via partners like Flexa. The product is developed by original Zcash protocol creators and mobile engineers focused on usability, privacy-by-default design, and minimizing data collection and tracking.

📋 Description

• Maintain and improve ZODL and Zcash security and resilience standards • Administer and improve security incident response for software, supply chains, and infrastructure • Manage responses to vulnerabilities and coordinate with external security researchers and affected projects • Communicate security flaws and mitigations to Zcash, cryptocurrency, and information-security communities • Build relationships with projects sharing Zcash technology and improve security disclosure processes • Manage external security assessment providers, audits, schedules, critiques, and follow-up actions • Advise staff on securing devices and responding to physical and virtual threats • Onboard staff to security procedures and administer offboarding to mitigate access misuse • Direct acquisition and maintenance of security infrastructure, devices, and software • Budget annual security spending in line with product and company roadmaps • Document security policies and ensure permissions follow least-privilege principles • Support secure use of cloud computing solutions • Ensure compliance with applicable security-related regulatory requirements and data protection law • Work with Engineering and QA on processes, techniques, and training to prevent bugs • Oversee proactive mitigations for software, protocol, infrastructure, and supply-chain vulnerabilities • Collaborate on cryptographic code assurance and limiting leakage of user-activity information • Prioritize security mitigations and refine processes for handling low-impact issues • Review and reprioritize the security issue backlog • Develop and maintain specifications supporting security analysis of the Zcash protocol • Monitor developments in the wider Zcash community • Recruit and onboard security-focused talent • Act as the primary owner of security incident response and an internal adversarial reviewer of Zcash specifications and software

🎯 Requirements

• Commitment to user privacy and the cypherpunk ethos of empowering freedom and autonomy through secure, well-designed cryptography • Confidence working internationally across different contexts and time zones • Experience with open-source software development • Experience overseeing security aspects of implementing protocols to detailed specifications • Deep knowledge of cryptography highly desirable • Willingness to learn about cryptographic issues essential • Management experience and hands-on experience developing secure, reliable code in modern programming languages similar to Rust, Swift, Kotlin, and Go • Strong communication and collaboration skills • Ability to work to deadlines and maintain accountability for short- and long-term success • Excellent leadership skills and ability to build consensus and foster collaboration • Ability to make crucial, informed decisions under pressure • Blockchain-related experience strongly favoured • Experience administering or participating in security response processes desirable • Experience with cryptography and protocol design desirable • Experience in security analysis of protocols or algorithms, formal methods, or high-assurance software or hardware development desirable

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Flexible, remote-first work culture from anywhere in the world • Semi-annual company-wide off-site meetups across the globe • Full benefits (medical, vision, and dental) with 100% of premiums paid by ZODL for full-time employees based in the U.S. • Annual employer HSA contributions for full-time employees based in the U.S. • 401(k) plan with employer contribution for full-time employees based in the U.S. • Paid Time Off and Vacation policy for full-time employees based in the U.S.