Senior Developer Relations Engineer – Security Advocate

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Trail of Bits

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

₿ Crypto

Cybersecurity • SaaS • Crypto

Trail of Bits is a company that specializes in software security and assurance. Established in 2012, it has assisted some of the most targeted organizations worldwide in securing their systems. Trail of Bits combines advanced security research with a practical attacker mindset to reduce risk and strengthen software code. The company offers services in software assurance, security engineering, and research and development, focusing on areas such as blockchain, cryptography, and mobile device security. They also provide expert training courses to enhance understanding of various security aspects like penetration testing and threat modeling.

📋 Description

• Grow existing relationships and build new relationships across security practitioner, researcher, maintainer, and open-source communities • Attend and speak at relevant cybersecurity conferences and meetups • Re-establish and support successful community meetups • Facilitate technical office hours connecting open-source maintainers with Trail of Bits engineers • Help contributions land upstream and maintain relationships after engagements end • Turn research and releases into advisories, co-authored writeups, reusable guidance, workshops, and hands-on sessions • Publish deep dives, tutorials, and technical write-ups under your own name • Identify speaking opportunities and help engineers submit, prepare, and deliver conference talks • Run Trail of Bits work against unfamiliar code and provide direct feedback to research and engineering teams • Create runnable examples and workflow integrations; contribute to skills and plugins • Improve project onboarding, documentation, and first-run experiences • Attract external contributors and encourage repeat contributions • Feed practitioner needs, research gaps, and emerging ecosystem trends back into the firm • Set targets with the manager during the first quarter and review them quarterly • Track ecosystem outcomes such as contributors, upstream fixes, accepted talks, cited writing, and practitioner advocacy • Hand off commercially relevant opportunities and track them with the appropriate teams

🎯 Requirements

• Shipped software that people use, such as a tool, library, integration, skill, or agent • Ability to read unfamiliar code, run analyzers, and open merged pull requests • Deep, hands-on security experience, typically seven or more years • Published research, CVEs, or advisories count toward security experience • Practical experience building with agentic tooling, including skills, agents, MCP servers, harnesses, and evals • Public body of work including talks, posts, upstream contributions, research, or documentation • Community credibility in security and open-source communities • Writing and speaking skills suitable for a skeptical technical audience • Ability to make and defend priorities under ambiguity • Willingness to travel approximately one quarter of the year • Nice to have: open-source project maintenance or meaningful contributions • Nice to have: depth in application security, blockchain and cryptography, AI/ML security, or low-level systems research • Nice to have: experience running or programming a community venue at meaningful scale • Nice to have: developer documentation contributions that ship alongside code • Nice to have: involvement with open-source foundations, grant programs, or maintainer-facing initiatives

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary complemented by performance-based bonuses • Fully company-paid health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance • 401(k) plan with a 5% match of base salary • 20 days of paid vacation with flexibility for more, adhering to jurisdictional regulations • 4 months of parental leave • $10,000 relocation assistance for moving to NYC • $1,000 Working-from-Home stipend • Annual $750 Learning & Development stipend • Company-sponsored all-team celebrations, including travel and accommodation • Philanthropic contribution matching up to $2,000 annually • Remote-first culture with autonomy and trust